7 Best Of What Did Peasants Eat Best Wallpaper JPG. Peasants ate black bread and drank either watered beer or water. Peasants had other sources of food besides the grain they grew in their fields.
Their eating pattern was what we term intermittent fasting. A peasant would eat their breakfast at sunrise and it would normally consist of dark bread usually made from rye with a drink of ale. The scarce historical documents that exist that tell us that medieval peasant ate meat fish dairy products fruit and vegetables but there is little direct evidence for this.
On the other hand the peasants of Ribe and Viborg had a more narrow range of foods but their diets were much higher in meat and protein.
The scarce historical documents that exist that tell us that medieval peasant ate meat fish dairy products fruit and vegetables but there is little direct evidence for this. They also drank mostly ale since water was unsafe and wine was too expensive. English peasants in Medieval times lived on a combination of meat stews leafy vegetables and dairy products which scientists say was healthier than. Their vegetables were organic and their protein came from pastured animals.