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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the PP who said "if it wasn't around 200 years ago, you shouldn't be eating it."  What does a day look like then?  Not being rude at all, just can't wrap my head around it. [/quote]
Breakfast 2 hard boiled eggs and blueberries
Snack small Apple
Lunch grilled chicken salad
Snack almonds
Dinner grilled salmon, 2 small red potatoes and broccoli [/quote]

Well, you are wrong.

Read books from that era. Farmer Boy is a good example (about 150 years ago).

People from that era ate. A lot. None of this bird eating you are outlining. Big farmers breakfasts. Pies. Bread. Startchy dishes. Cheeses.  Healthy, big helpings.

The menu you outlined is a relatively new type of eating and would not have been around 200 years ago.  If they were middle class or affluent, they ate big, hearty meals.  If they were poor they ate one or two very simple things many meals in a row of things that were not very balanced. They did not eat vegetables and fruit for much of the year unless it was boiled down into preserves or jellies. Off season, they only ate things like potatoes and other roots that would keep. Fruit, othe than apples, was a treat and oranges were exotic.  It was easier to get a stick of candy than it was to get an orange.  Their meat for most of the year was heavily preserved salt pork, salted down fish, jerky or ham.[/quote]

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