What did they used to eat- farmers in the south?

Question

I've been reading a lot of books lately about the south, mostly set during the early 1900's when they would go out and pick cotton. It talks about what they ate a little bit, it sounds mostly like meat, biscuits, and grits in the morning, with just biscuits and tomatoes and onions later in the day.. can anyone provide me what types of foods they would've ate? I'm thinking about using this as my experiment to try and live like that for a few weeks... I really need like a breakfast, lunch and dinner type of thing... thanks

Answer 1

See common foods list below.

Answer 2

You are close on, they would take cold biscuits and molasses, fresh tomatoes or carrots,, what ever fruits were ripening and available.  Sometimes it was berries, sometimes oranges.  They tried to take foods that would not spoil in the heat.  

At evening meal they would  have boiled ham and pot liqueur with greens cooked in it.   Rice was a staple. So was chicken.  Fried chicken. rice and greens were Sunday dinner.

Sometimes they had game they shot, venison, birds,  sometimes catfish and okra or beans, whatever the garden had they ate.   Over all it was a pretty healthy diet, if you over look that most foods were deep fried.  You ever had deep fried oreos?  I hear they are great.  Fish and chicken were always deep fried..