The Fremen ate only two meals, a lighter on rising and a heavier at dawn with dessert, like a
tabara. During the night no more food was eaten, except a drink or coffee after a nap.
The donkeys provided them milk, made into butter, cheese and
kvetch. They were provided fruits (dates, figs, apricots, portygul, Caladanian melon) vegetables and nuts from nearby villages. There were also terraform planting areas and high-altitude temperate zones where they could gather some.
Meat (
desert hare and chukka) was roasted or stewed with root, served on a torn-open flat bread.
Menstruating women followed a special diet which reduced the water level of their bodies, minimizing therefore the water loss and protecting from a dehydration shock.
In 10169 AG
Sietch Tabr was a the place where the first attempts to raise corps with chromoplastic-lined pits, dew collectors and other means. The first plants to be cultivated were coffee, tabaroot and vegetables from
Salusa Secundus which lasted for a small harvest in 3 seasons.
The plantings expanded to other
sietches and other species of vegetation in secrecy. Dew collectors could help the growths survive for one year with only pollination necessary by humans. Trained children usually cared for these gardens.
Following Arrakis' planetary transformation, crops could be easily raised as on any other world.