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Ancient Egyptian foodS

Ancient Egyptian foodS. By: Sydney Stamps, Grade 5 Ms. Rutledge's Class. www.flickr.com. Ancient Egyptian Foods. The a ncient Egyptians’ main dish was bread. Their bread was usually made out of emmer wheat.

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Ancient Egyptian foodS

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  1. Ancient Egyptian foodS By: Sydney Stamps, Grade 5 Ms. Rutledge's Class www.flickr.com

  2. Ancient Egyptian Foods • The ancient Egyptians’ main dish was bread. Their bread was usually made out of emmer wheat. • Wealthy people ate beef, a little sheep, and goat. If there was an option other than pig, they wouldn’t eat pig. • Poor people had a different diet. They mostly ate goat, sheep, and pig. They didn’t eat very much beef. • Both wealthy and poor ate geese and ducks. They also ate fish too. But if something else was available, wealthy people wouldn’t eat fish. • They had cows, goats, and sheep, so they had milk, butter, and cheese.

  3. Ancient Egyptian foods • Ancient Egyptains had vegetables like peas, beans, onions, turnips, leeks, lettuce, and cucumbers. • Ancient Egyptians also had herbs like aniseed, fennel, mustard, cumin, and dill. • Ancient Egyptians also had fruit like grapes, figs, watermelon, dates, and plums. Poor people also used fruits to sweeten their food. • They also had eggs from ducks and geese. They didn’t have any chickens, though. • They had honey, and the wealthy people used it to sweeten their other food. They also did other things with it.

  4. The last 8 facts • They had milk, water, wine, and beer to drink. • Even the kids drank beer. • Only wealthy people drank wine. • The wealthy had more complicated meals. • The poor had the very basics on their menu. • The wealthy people had wine with their meals. • The poor people drank beer with their meals.

  5. Thank you to the following! • www.egypt.mrdonn.org/homes.html • www.barrygray.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Egypt/food.html • www.ask.com/question/what-did-the-ancient-egyptians-drink

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