What did monks eat in medieval times?

Answer 1

"the rich monks ate fruits, meats, fowl, and drank wine. poor monks ate salt fish,bred, and water".

This answer is incorrect, since there were no "rich monks". All monks and nuns took vows of POVERTY, chastity and obedience, plus stability (the promise to remain in a monastery for the remainder of their lives). Monks lived by the very strict and complete regulations known as the Rule of St Benedict, which forbade the eating of the flesh of four-legged animals (so no pork, mutton, lamb, veal or beef).

Monasteries tried to be self-sufficient, baking their own bread, brewing their own ale, growing crops, vegetables, herbs, keeping bees for honey and breeding fish in complex fisheries. Birds could be eaten and these would include almost everything in Europe that can fly such as pigeons, swans, peacocks, Blackbirds, partridges, geese and ducks. Salt fish was not eaten because there was a constant supply of fresh fish available.

Ale was drunk at every meal, including breakfast, and the Rule permitted wine at the rate of a "hemina" (about half a pint) per monk per day. It also warned against drunkenness.

Only the elderly and the sick, plus any young boys donated by their families to a monastery (they were called oblates) would be permitted to eat meat occasionally, in a special room called a misericord (meaning a "mercy"); the ordinary monks always ate together in a large refectory in total silence, while passages from The Bible were read by a monk appointed as weekly reader.

In this way the soul was fed along with the body.

Answer 2

banana