If you think of Italian food today, you might think of tomatoes and spaghetti. In ancient Rome, however, you wouldn't have heard of these things. To find out more about what you would have eaten, keep reading.

For breakfast, the average Roman would have eaten bread with honey or fruit. Your lunch would have consisted of bread, olives, and cheese. Dinner would have been bread, fruits, and vegetables. Poor people often only ate bread for their meals, while rich people ate a lot of meat. The meat was usually chicken, pork, or rabbit. On special occasions they had unusual dishes such as flamingo and giraffe.

Of course there were farmers in ancient Rome ... just look at all the bread they ate! All farmers grew wheat in their fields. Farmers who lived in areas with warm climates grew grapes and olives while those in cooler climates grew turnips and apples.