What remains the same through time? People's’ need to eat. Everyone has to eat and that is why diets in history are important. According to the author of elizabethi.org, “The Elizabethans, like us, had three main meals a day: breakfast, dinner, and supper.” We now know that diet affects our health, but in Elizabethan England they didn’t care. The rich ate what tasted good and the poor ate what they could afford. Often times the poor had a healthier diet than the rich. The rich ate a variety of things, and mostly everything was thoroughly cooked. They ate many types of meats, poultry, and fish. They even ate peacocks if they could afford them. The author of elizabethan-era.org.uk states that “The rich ate few fresh vegetables and little