[Sca-cooks] SAD

[Nancy Kiel]

A good idea of diet in winter is the Little House on the Prairie books.
Granted they're late 19th century, but when they are stranded out on the
plains during the winter, with no food and no trains able to bring any,
their diet is very limited.



Nancy Kiel
nancy_kiel at hotmail.com
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.   Emerson





>From: "Dan Phelps" <phelpsd at gate.net>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] SAD
>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:58:19 -0800
>
>Was written:
>
> > >I was reading an article in 'Psychology Today" on
> > >Seasonal Affliction Disorder.  And the main cure for
> > >it was vitamins.   This got me thinking.  Was there
> > >such a problem in the medeaval diate?  (sorry I am an
> > >awful speller) and did the dieate really change from
> > >summer to winter?  especially in more northernly
> > >regions like Briton.
>
>Yes diet did change over the seasons, especially as one moved to higher
>latitudes.   Winters were the lean times.  No or very little in the way of
>fresh veggies and fruit, only what could be stored.  Dried fish and fruits,
>preserved meats supplimented with what could be hunted or caught.  What
>stock that had not been slaughtered in the Fall was fed through the Winter
>until the Spring.
>
>Daniel
>
>
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