Dinner Time

[M. Demetrius]

Wheat or spelt would probably have been first choice for grains. Barley would make the men grumble about eating "horse food" (some say men who were in trouble with the Centurio might have their rations changed to barley for a while, too). Whatever wild vegetables were around would probably be eaten, and meats when they could be had. Everything with olive oil.

Wheat, made into hard tack (nothing much new about that) or boiled into pulse (gruel) would be common.