What kind of food did ancient egyptian eat
- Ancient egypt ate barley and emmer wheat which was made in to bread cakes and beer etc.
- Ancient egypt grew different types of cereals for example trees barley and other types of plants .
- they ate loaves of bread and fish sun dried or raw.
- Meat was not eaten that often they received meats on special festive occasions only
What did they do to prevent starving
- the stored grain was distributed to make sure no one would starve
- they wanted to eat their own children because they were so hungry and it was that bad
- they used their food stockpiles, and a stockpile is when people were so hungry they would take out the food they were saving for the starving people.
what was the difference between what the upper class ate and what the lower class ate
- upper class ancient egyptians ate more varied diet while the lower class ate more various animal sources.
- both upper class and lower class ancients egyptians ate lots of bread.
- the rich ancient egyptians ate luxury meat while the lower class ate meat that came from pigs cows ducks etc.