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Breakfast is the first meal of the day usually eaten in the morning. The word in English refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night. 13th century it was the name given to the first meal of the day. In Ancient Egypt, peasants ate a daily meal, most likely in the morning, consisting of soup, beer, bread, and onions before they left for work in the fields or work commanded by the pharaohs. The Iliad notes this meal with regard to a labor-weary woodsman eager for a light repast to start his day, preparing it even as he is aching with exhaustion. 5th century BC poets Cratinus and Magnes.

It was usually composed of everyday staples like bread, cheese, olives, salad, nuts, raisins, and cold meat left over from the night before. 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, while 16th century scholar Claudius Saumaise wrote that it was typically eaten at 9:00 or 10:00 a. It seems unlikely that any fixed time was truly assigned for this meal. Italian polenta, made from roasted spelt wheat or barley that was then pounded and cooked in a cauldron of water. This section’s factual accuracy is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on Talk:Breakfast. Please help to ensure that disputed statements are reliably sourced.

Eating breakfast meant that one was poor, was a low-status farmer or laborer who truly needed the energy to sustain his morning’s labor, or was too weak to make it to the large, midday dinner. In the 13th century, breakfast when eaten sometimes consisted of a piece of rye bread and a bit of cheese. Morning meals would not include any meat, and would likely include 0. Uncertain quantities of bread and ale could have been consumed in between meals. By the 15th century, breakfast in western Europe often included meat. By this time, noble men were seen to indulge in breakfast, making it more of a common practice, and by the early 16th century, recorded expenses for breakfast became customary. Breakfast in eastern Europe remained mostly the same as the modern day: a “continental breakfast”.