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The article says the off-meat days included eggs and cheese, though, so not quite the same thing.

• AstralStorm 8y ago
  Not a lot though. These things were expensive even for knights. Similarly the usual days did not have as much animal produce as today. Remember that these people were professional soldiers with at least a few hours of strenuous exercise a day combined with relative leisure In prayer. (Compared to peasants or even modern day workers.)
  • perl4ever 8y ago
    Were eggs expensive? I thought that eggs traditionally were the inexpensive alternative to meat, going back a long time.
    • oh_sigh 8y ago
      Doubtful that eggs were expensive on terms of cost per calorie compared to chicken. A 4 pound chicken will get you about 2000 calories after it is cooked, whereas the same chicken would lay approx 5 eggs/week, each @ 75 calories, or 375 calories/week. So, it would only take 6 weeks for a chicken to output as many calories as exist within it, and chickens lay eggs productively for 4-5 years.
      • moonka 8y ago
        And at the end you do still have the chicken, albeit a little bit older and perhaps less tasty.