Those with a higher metabolic rate will burn more calories at rest. As today, geese and ducks had been domesticated but were not as popular as the chicken , the fowl equivalent of the pig. While an average peasant household often made do with firewood collected from the surrounding woodlands, the major kitchens of households had to cope with the logistics of daily providing at least two meals for several hundred people. In medieval Poland , mead had a status equivalent to that of imported luxuries, such as spices and wines. Ground Beef, Bar Harbor Store.