FOOD

People on the Australian goldfields mostly ate damper (a plain bread made of water, salt and flour) it is then cooked on an open campfire. They would eat mutton with potatoes and onions with some cabbage and carrots if they were lucky. They would sometimes kill and cook kangaroo or wallaby, but it was not hugely loved.

Other food like fruit and vegetables were rare on the goldfields except if the Australians made a deal with the Chinese.  Food was either brought in with the diggers or bought in one of the "trading posts" that grew up around where the fields were. Food was often expensive as the local supplier needed more money. People on the goldfields enjoy billy tea as well, which is tea boiled in a billy over an open fire.

The Chinese ate rice, and they also dug up their own vegetables. They would raise their own animals to then kill them to eat.