[miriel361]

What would they have eaten on the journey? Hmm, well they would have had cheese with them, bread (till it went off) dried apricots, apples and pears, raisins, nuts. These were standard things. Also dried meat (very tough and chewy). They would have gathered roots and berries. No doubt Strider would have been an expert at finding edible roots and herbs. You know that you can eat a lot of grasses that we consider to be weeds - like dandilion leaves, or rapunzel - which is a type of tiny round leafed lettuce that also grows well into winter (it's delicious with cooked potatoes) Rapunzel is the 'lettuce' that the father was stealing n the story of the same name.

And I'm sure those hobbits were a dab hand at catching fish.

[NancyBrooke]

All good thoughts! Now my curiosity is satisfied, but my appetite is waking up!!