What would a medieval adventurer EAT?

Looks like Shad brought out his charcuterie board

There is a drink from medieval times called slub. Roman armies drank it marching to Britannia. Its a vinegar, herb and water drink.

They call it sea salt because most of it comes from mines that are in areas that used to be sea, like Texas, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. They all used to be under water.

Wild boar are an evasive species in most parts of the world. Explorers carried the on voyage because they were portable.

Fellowship of the Ring , Marion and Pippin stole vegetables.

to give some context to how long hardtack can last in the right conditions, Steve from steve1989MREinfo ate some from the american civil war that was still in near-perfect condition after 153 years.

Pemican has only been around since the 1800's? My people have been eating pemican for thousands of years white man. Just because it isn't European doesn't mean it didn't exist until Europeans found it.

According to D&D basic manual: iron ration

Lembas!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have a really tiny kitchen like on a submarine. Dude, I feel for you.

Pemmican. Take a lesson from the colonials.

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Mmmmmmmm salted meathunk.

"What's taters precious?" had me laugh out loud when everyone else was asleep. fantastic xD

Your stove is more expensive than my house :))

Cheese, hunted meat, bread, foraging foods and maybe some beer.

"wouldn't fork out lots of money for food"

why not? most adventurer in rpgs get rich, or at least quite wealthy, and since they not always settle down and spend money on real estates or other similar stuff, they have more money to waste than what they could use. so spending on lodging, food and night fun is the logical way, a last for some. ha one group, where one guy was stingy and did not wanted to spend money on a better food source, while the rest was instantly jumped on the same option. was cheap on the overall scale, and let them have a bit better food.

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Pemmican isn't more recent, it's from a different culture.

Fresh, unwashed chicken eggs will last up to 21 days without refrigeration.
Store bought eggs in the US (I'm sure other places as well) have been washed.
Eggs fresh from the hen have a coating that protects them (the egg, not the hen) from bacteria.
Chicken eggs take 21 days to hatch.
Therefore, chicken eggs are designed to last long enough for the chick to hatch without going bad if properly taken care of whether they are fertilized or not.

Don't think you're going to forage olives. Pretty much inedible raw

Slice of sausage? Wild boar! Lots of wild boar for Obelix and some leftovers for Dogmatix!!

Very useful video for writing inspiration.

We seriously need a whole "Cooking with Shad" series.

What people tend to forget is that adventurers going to explore a remote area aren't going on a weekend camping trip. It would be a real expedition, where just reaching the area to explore could take weeks (traveling uncharted lands without roads is slow). The adventurers would need pack animals just for their gear (tents, blankets, cauldron, tools...), food (large bags and barrels of dry beans, flour, oil...) and drinks (barrels of ale and wine). They'd probably need guides and porters too, who all would need food and drinks. Maybe, they'd even have to make some semi-permanent camps midway, where some people and stuff would be stored there until they return.

Hey Shad, coming back to this a year later because I'm highly interested in medieval foodstuffs, and food in general! Might be cool to revisit this kind of thing, maybe exploring the typical kinds of foraged foods (and how they taste?)

Lord Alfred's oatcakes.

To preserve better, butter was made with MUCH more salt until the last 100 years or so. sometimes up to 10% salt content!

trail mix and jerky. they had trail mix and jerky.

Love your vids, Chad! So awesome, interesting and useful! You mention lard - OH YES. Most Slavic people eat Salo or the similar Slanina - Salo is lightly smoked/salted pork fat (a bit rubbery but sooooo good). Growing up in the USSR we called Salo "Snickers" because we ate it and enjoyed it as much as American candy bars (and I think I saw 2 Snickers bars before we escaped the Worker's Paradise LOL - we ate Salo all the time). You can fry it, toss it into soups, etc. - but the most common way WE ate it was thinly sliced on black bread, with minced garlic or sliced onions (if you were GOOD, you got BOTH), and sprinkled with black pepper and/or Paprika. Breakfast and or lunch (riding the tram was a joy, I can assure you). OH! Millet - it was a common thing for travelers to carry bags of millet; nomads would sow fields & 3 months later would come back & harvest it. It can be roasted, ground, or made into a weak soup or porridge. Very common travel staple. If doing a role where you're in Asia - dried Daikon radish is fantastic (and still eaten)... sadly, staples like pumpkin or sunflower seeds came much later.

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We forget how fortunate we truly are.

I add grapefruit seed extract to my stored water.

Potatoes are native to Peru, so no clue how they farmed them in Lord of the Rings unless the Elves brought them back from South Aman (South America).

I once heard that after the discovery of distillation, Sailors would add a bucket of brandy to their water to preserve it on long voyages.

The Roman legions did drink straight apple cider vinegar. It could quench thirst when water wasn't svailable

Except there were laws prohibiting hunting by the common people in England.

There’s a documentary where three people joined that crew that was building a castle in France using medieval technology. The ceramic kettle that you cooked a pottage in was shown

This is a bit off topic, but it might be adaptable for fantasy: some Native Americans, particularly those of the northeastern and northern Midwest US and Canada made a huge deal about harvesting sap from maple trees and turning it into bricks of sugar, which was perfect for trade, flavoring, or making sugar cakes which made great trail rations. On top of that, when you mix the sugar with other odds and ends, you get a recipe for pemmican that's basically a modern granola/power bar. Obviously, you probably wouldn't do this in a mismatched historical piece, but with a little finagling you could make it work for a fantasy setting. Maybe your story is set in some kind of fantasy New England or Wisconsin (I'm from the latter so I approve any fantasy taking place there) and involves fur traders acting as go-betweens for city-dwellers and barbarian tribes or something.

I feel pretty sure that dried beans would also be a quite common food.

Anyone else hoping this would be a mukbang??

Who is Oz? Is he a camera man or a friend? I don’t think I have ever heard him before

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it already, but raw flour and salt and the like would often be carried to make a fairly simple dough that could be baked right over the campfire in some kind of pot or pan, or even without one just by wrapping it around a stick. A little honey or dried fruit could be added to the dough to flavor it up a bit, or a little dried or smoked meat could be shredded in along with some cheese and maybe a little minced garlic for something more savory.

Additionally, pretty much any kind of root vegetable will keep at least moderately well while traveling. Not forever, obviously, and some types will keep better than others, but it's certainly an option.

So medieval adventurers were like Remy when foraging. XD
Also "I wonder what drinking straight vinegar would be like"--from experience, it'll make you pucker (I'll sometimes use vinegar for mouthwash because I can stand it more than regular mouthwash).
Love the vid (and your energy when cooking during the HelloFresh segment XD)! Taking notes for my stories. :D

Pepper and nutmeg were a lot of things. Easily available, let alone affordable, not among them.