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=Introduction= Many aspects of lifestyle in our days are different compared to the lifestyle in the Elizabethan time period. In the Elizabethan era they had different ways of education, different types of music, different types of sports, and also different types of food they ate in their daily life. In this page, there are comparisons between, 21st century food that the teenagers ean, and the food thatthe children in the Elizabthan Time Period ate.

 =Elizabethan Children/ Modern Children =



In the time in Elizabethan period, not everybody could go to school and could be educated. Only the high class boys were able to go, but usually high class kids would have a private tutor at home. In school, the boys would eat all three meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Their breakfast time would be 7:30 to 8:00 in the morning. Lunch time was 10:30-1:00, and dinner was 4:30-5:30. [|(source)] In those days, they also had sweets, just like these day, especially in the Elizabethan era they enjoyed eating sugar. Marzipan or marchpane. Almond paste that is sweetened, colored, and made into shapes. Gengerbread, fruit pies,sweet cakes, puddings, daryole, pretzels were some of the sweets they often ate. [|(source)]

The children in the modern days, have different school schedules, and different meal time. We eat all three meals in differnt time and different places. Breakfast, at home, and usually during 6:00-6:30, during the weekends it is usually 8:00-9:00. Luch, we eat it in school, from 12:00-12:45, and dinner at home and it is usually different with all the people. Some people eat dinner earlier than other, or later than others. in these days we have junk food as snacks, but we still eat cakes, puddings, and pies like in the Elizabethan era, but not ast much. One of the reasons are, first the price of the sweets, like pies, or cakes are too expensive the make or buy. Secondly, there are cheap and food tasting junk food, like chips, soda dirinks, chocolate, and so on. The girls in the Elizabethan had to learn how to be a good housewives. However, only the low class girls needed to learn how to cook, since the high class girls had servants to serve food for them. In the Elizabethan era, the class were divided very strictly, which is one of the most different part with these days. These days in our modern society, we have no class divided, and every one gets an equal amount of everything, such as, education, food, chances to work and learn. All girls in the modern society, all get to be well educated as the high class children in the elizabethan era. Also all girls learn to become a good housewives, by learning how to cook and do chours. One, hugh change is that, even some of the boys learn the house chours and cook. In 21st century there are more men cooks than girl cooks.