The Greek had much different eating habits than we do now, they ate very healthy. Their diet consisted of beans, many forms of bread,and olives.

    In the summer they ate vegetables, fresh fruits, and herbs. However, in the wintertime they ate apples, chestnuts, cheese , and lentils. To sweeten their foods they did not have sugar, instead they had a flowered-scented honey. A lot of their food was found in the sea, squid, sea urchins, octopi, and fish.

    Their meals were cooked over an open fire outside. They liked to have wine with their food and often grew the wine grapes in their own back-yard. They had such a great taste for wine that they have a wine god that you can find out about on our gods page. Some of their food was imported from Egypt, like flour.

    Greeks had to shop too you know, they went to the agora, which is the greek word for market -place. Does your mom do the shopping in your house? Probably, but in Greece, if women were respectable, they sent their husband. But, the men made the most of their hunt-for-goods, they talked politics!

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Weird, yet interesting facts.

    Gross, did you know that ancient Greeks brushed their teeth with honey, blood, charcoal, oils, and worst of all, ground-up crab-eyes?

Say What???

These are the definitions of the underlined, italic words.

agora-It's a Greek word for market-place

lentils-an Old-world (ancient) legume grown for its flat edible seeds and its fodder.

squid-yum, calamari- fried squid.

fodder-course, dry food (like cornstalks) eaten by cattle.