What did nobles in the Middle ages eat for breakfast lunch and dinner?

Answer 1

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They didn't have "lunch". Usually there was a morning meal and then one in the late afternoon.

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They had a midday meal, but they called it dinner. Wealthy people did not usually eat breakfast, but ate a noontime dinner and an even supper. Laboring people ate three meals a day because they needed energy for work.

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Answer 2

The Rule of St Benedict, a list of regulations governing the lives of all monks across Europe during the medieval period, states in chapter 39:

" . . . we believe that two kinds of cooked food are sufficient at all meals, so that he who can not eat one may make his meal of the other. Let two kinds of cooked food be sufficient for all the brethren and if there be fruit or fresh vegetables, a third dish may be added. Let a pound of bread [per monk] be sufficient for the day, whether there be only one meal or both dinner and supper. If they are to eat supper, let a third part of the pound be reserved by the cellarer and be given at supper".

The Rule also forbids the eating of the flesh of four-footed animals, leaving a permissible diet of grain, fish, poultry, eggs, cheese, milk, butter, herbs, vegetables and fruit.

Vegetables included field beans, peas, onions, leeks, garlic, cabbage, celery, kale, parsnip, turnip, swede, radish, beet leaves and spinach. These were often cooked in a kind of vegetable stew with added grain, called "pottage".

Fish were farmed in monastic ponds and included a wide range of freshwater species.

During the shorter days of the winter months, only one meal per day was served (dinner, taken at around midday); in summer when days were longer a second smaller meal (supper) was served later in the day.

Answer 3

For lunch they had ale, a type of beer, roasted meat,bread, leeks,onions, turnips for dessert, cherries if they were in season, and apples and Pears.

Answer 4

Well, the nobles ate lots of food. hope i help you. remember not to copy paste stuff its plagiarism. This was answered by Jan, in Thomas Carr College