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Help! What did they eat in bible times?

27 replies

welshmum · 09/03/2007 13:56

You'd think there'd be a list somewhere on line of all the food mentioned in the bible but I can't seem to find it. Anyone got a list or know how to find it online? Would be ever so grateful.
Thanks

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Aloha · 09/03/2007 13:57

Fatted calf with milk and honey to follow?

tortoiseSHELL · 09/03/2007 13:57

well there are the obvious things - bread, fish, manna, wheat, goat, lamb - will have a look for you

kittylette · 09/03/2007 13:57

flat bread? fish? chicken?

Aloha · 09/03/2007 13:58

Loaves and fishes, definitely. Wine and water.

tortoiseSHELL · 09/03/2007 13:58

here you go

Aloha · 09/03/2007 13:58

Apples.

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldinghands · 09/03/2007 13:59

unlevened bread

donnie · 09/03/2007 13:59

lots of fruit, fish and meat, also wine.Sounds good to me.

WaynettaSlob · 09/03/2007 13:59

Am guessing that fruit shoots and sausage rolls were pretty thin on the ground!

Tinker · 09/03/2007 13:59

Sacrificial animals?

Aloha · 09/03/2007 14:02

Ha! There is a Bible diet you can go on, including Bible Bars!

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welshmum · 09/03/2007 14:22

Thank you all. I've kind of got the basics but I was after a list I could base a quiz on....I'd have thought hundreds of committed types would have put these together and posted them on the web but can't find one.

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Aloha · 09/03/2007 16:09

Some people have written whole books on the subject - but you have to pay!

tearinghairout · 09/03/2007 16:33

Would've thought a simplified version of what they eat in the middle east today - flatbread, olives, lamb & mutton, fish, cheese & yogurt, 'green herbs'(whatever they are), mustard, honey, figs, wine, grapes & pomegranates. These are some of the things that I'm dragging from memory. Certainly nomads would've had a diet based on sheep & milk, (milk carried in skins makes yogurt/cheese)with dates.

Not pork, or shellfish (fish had to have fins & scales).

Nockney · 09/03/2007 16:35

They ate leavened bread, not just flat (basing this on the Passover story).

And certainly some people ate pork and shellfish in biblical times - otherwise you wouldn't have a ban on eating them, iyswim.

moondog · 09/03/2007 16:36

manna

Which sounds well cool.

Nockney · 09/03/2007 16:58

What is manna? I think there's a brand of bread, in Canada, called Manna. Very odd stuff, it's sprouted and then cooked at a low temperature. Not really bread, tbh. But tasty.

KathyMCMLXXII · 09/03/2007 17:01

Locusts, yum.

If you're thinking New as well as Old Testament then the Roman cookery book of Apicius will tell you what Pontius Pilate might have been scoffing.

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welshmum · 09/03/2007 17:27

I think I may have to buy a book....hey ho. Thanks for all the suggestions though. Anyonelse find those 'Lose weight God's way' sites rather odd (although the diets sound pretty efficient )

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Aloha · 09/03/2007 17:28

Well, Jesus did have a lovely slim figure in all the pictures!

stleger · 09/03/2007 17:50

Isn't there a what would Jesus eat diet? I think Richard and Judy had an item. Lots of olives, I'm sure. Very healthy.

Blandmum · 09/03/2007 17:51

Loaves and fishes. manna. Wine that was once water. Bread. Sheep and goats

Blandmum · 09/03/2007 17:52

At passover they ate un leavened bread, because the children of Israel didn't have time to let it rise before that had to leave the land of Egypt. Honey, crops up in the psalms I think

moondog · 09/03/2007 19:42

Manna

PeachyClair · 09/03/2007 19:53

Tinker you don't eat sacrificial animals LOL! Unless of course you are a God or Tirthankara????

LOL

Breads, fish, depends where you live. In Biblical countries there would be different to the Indian post aryan civilasations of the time, and different again in China I guess.