I’m thinking more until before common grocery stores in the western part of the world of the non elite class. Middle Ages to pre-industrial era.

You would own livestock. But if you have a flock of chickens, you don’t kill and eat one everyday. That was a luxury. You keep them and harvest eggs. Cows were for milk. Slaughtering a cow would have been a major luxury.

Yes you could hunt for fowl, rabbit, deer but unlikely to eat that everyday (edit: especially if the King’s forest was off limits). Grains, potatoes, corn (and rice) were subsistence foods.

I’m thinking more until before common grocery stores in the western part of the world of the non elite class. Middle Ages to pre-industrial era.

You would own livestock. But if you have a flock of chickens, you don’t kill and eat one everyday. That was a luxury. You keep them and harvest eggs. Cows were for milk. Slaughtering a cow would have been a major luxury.

Yes you could hunt for fowl, rabbit, deer but unlikely to eat that everyday. Grains, potatoes, corn (and rice) were subsistence foods.