How did they get the ingredients for the food in the Medieval Times?

Answer 1

Most food was grown by serfs.

Fish was caught at sea and preserved by salting. In this form it was taken far inland.

Cheese was manufactured much as it is today, but without sanitizers and thermometers. Somehow they managed anyway The same is true of beer, wine, cider, and mead.

There was an active trade in much of the Middle Ages for exotic foods, and these included most spices and seasonings.

Answer 2

1st Answer:

they would normally farm it and get it they always ate vegetables or bread. If they were lucky they would get some portions of meat that was left over from the nobles party. The peasants rarely ate meat however.

2nd Answer:

Most people were serfs. They grew their own vegetables and raised animals. They ate chicken and pork they raised, and less often ate mutton. They got a lot of their protein from eggs, and much of it from nuts or cheese. They did not often eat beef, as it was to valuable and could be sold. They traded or sold food they grew. They ate a lot of bread, but often traded for or bought bread, because they did not normally have their own ovens for baking. In some places, a manor would have a community oven serfs could rent.

Members of the nobility got rent from serfs, and much of this was in the form of food. The had cooks who could buy food for them, and often bought food from neighboring manors that had different crops from their own. They also ate food that was brought in from elsewhere, including spices from quite far away.

Perhaps the most interesting group were poorer people who lived in town. Keeping a kitchen was expensive and difficult because most people did not have chimneys, which were not even invented until the 11th or 12th century. In multistory buildings, cooking really was best done either communally or outside. So poor people who lived in town were likely to buy prepared food, unless they actually worked in the food service industry.

They hunted for it, grew it or raised the animals they would eventually eat themselves

Answer 3

The great majority of people in the middle ages raised their own food. Eighty five to ninety percent of the populace of the middle ages were peasants who lived in small villages and farmed, herded, fished, and gardened for a living. Peasants raised their own foods from their fields and gardens, and sold any surplus in nearby towns and cities to feed the much smaller urban population.

Residents of towns an cities were typically engaged in trade or practiced a crafts, or were the employees of such people, and thus did not have time or space to produce much of their own food. Urban populations bought food in markets on regular market days. They purchased prepared foods such as bread and ale from town businesses, and got their meat from a butcher. Towns also offered the luxury of cook shops that sold hot, ready to eat foods such as pies and pasties (both sweet and savory), roasted meats, and cooked fish.

its really easy , they used to sell their stuff and buy food . The sellers used to grow their vegetable's and sell it . Also the Rich people was just lucky they used to get food for free .

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Answer 4

The same way we do now, by hunting, farming, and scavenging.

Answer 5

Wagon, cart, boats, horse, or by foot.