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Jamestown survived primarily on fish and turtles! Sturgeon was the most common fish.

The colonists also dined on rays, herons, gulls, oysters, raccoons, and other native Virginia animals, as well as provisions of beef, pork, and fish they brought with them from England.

Domestic animals brought by the first colonists were intended as breeding stock although they were quickly eaten during the Starving Time winter of 1609-1610.

A common meal was pottage which was a thick soup containing beans, some meat, and herbs, cooked in one pot.