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| Sep 10, 2020 at 17:52 | comment | added | Willeke | Variation and nutritional value are rather recent in our human world. Most of history most of the world and most people every day food did not change much from day to day, it did change with the seasons in most of the world, at least for those with access to fresh vegetables and meat. For a long time many Irish lived on hardly anything more than potatoes, while the average city worker in the English cities ate grain based meals without vegetables. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 13:16 | history | edited | user535733 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 9, 2020 at 11:38 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | You will need to have individuals and infrastructure (probably outside war zones) in place to actually make or harvest this, and you need individuals and infrastructure in place to support those individuals and infrastructure. Those individuals will probably not be that concerned with how well-suited to war zones what they are eating, so you'd most likely have some variation, similar to the variation between what humans eat inside and outside war zones. If you want to be at war everywhere all the time, you'll likely need to primarily favour what's easy to gather ingredients for and make. | |
| Sep 8, 2020 at 19:17 | comment | added | Otkin | What you describe are field rations. They have one major problem — they do not provide balanced nutrition. I am not aware of any culture that has a cuisine built mainly on this kind of food. It is impractical and unhealthy. Moreover, all armies in history supplemented rations with hunting/foraging/pillaging (history.com/news/…). | |
| Sep 8, 2020 at 16:26 | comment | added | Brian | Keep in mind that cooking and spicing food reduces the risk of disease. Absent canning technology, spices (especially salt) and cooking are pretty important. | |
| Sep 8, 2020 at 9:46 | history | edited | user535733 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2020 at 4:23 | comment | added | JBH | This is a worldbuilding answer, focusing on helping the OP build their world. +1. | |
| Sep 8, 2020 at 1:55 | history | edited | user535733 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2020 at 1:43 | history | answered | user535733 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |