So what was on the menu in ancient Greece? For breakfast, Greeks might eat fruit with bread dipped in wine. Lunch might be bread and cheese.

Below is a depiction of some typical food from Ancient Greece. Here you can see whole wheat bread, olives, olive oil, and onions. Their diet was known for being very healthy. 

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For dinner, people ate porridge made from barley, with cheese, fish, vegetables, eggs and fruit. For dessert people might have eaten nuts, figs and cakes sweetened with honey.

Only rich people ate a lot of meat. They would eat hares, deer and wild boar killed by hunters. Octopus was a favourite seafood.