>>76872040
They eat eggs and grains an vegetables anon.
Not even nobles can afford to eat meat every day. The meat from their hunts are shared, eating poultry is a flex because that means one less egg factory, and beef is even more of a flex for the milk.
Theres no refrigeration, if you kill a cow, you better share it with your servants to avoid it being spoiled and to not have them rebel.
Cured meat cant be done with every meat.

>>76872040
Bread has been around for 14,000 years and was the primary food staple for humans throughout time period

>>76872053
>and was the primary food staple for slaves throughout time period

FTFY

>>76872039
despite these drawings, a whole lot of them were malnourished manlets. Their neolithic (I.e.: before civilization) counterparts were actually as big and as tall as modern westerners are. But Bronze age and Iron age, most people were manlets, including soldiers. Basically, they really didn't eat that well.

Imperial era Italian Romans for example, most protein for the average DYEL was chickpeas and seafood when they could get it.

That doesn't mean big, muscular well fed people weren't around. they certainly were, but even if they were, they were manlet height. Celts were like 5'7 or 5'9 and they were considered ultra tall. They ate much better than Romans but still worse than us.

Also, roman gladiators got huge from eating monstrous amounts of beans and poor cuts of meat actually. So if you want to know what a cheap ancient bulking diet looks like, there are quite a few youtube videos on what gladiators ate. BTW, if you eat beans constantly and you cook them yourself, they do not make you fart. That's cause the canned beans are cooked well enough.

Ancient people had access to such little protein, that it's hard for the modern to imagine. Moderns have access to protein because of advancements in fertilizers which let us raise more animals.

>>76872059
correction* paleolithic (hunter gathererers) were as tall as the average /fit/izen. Not neolithics. They were already manlet. Basically all humans except modern westerners and (ancient or present day) hunter gatherers are manlets, and always have been.

>>76872053
But bread is not bioavailable