In the last chapter many examples were given of the amount of beer, meat and other foods eaten by labourers. Here I will focus specifically on contemporary examples of actual daily diets, and the number of calories they provided. This will be done in order to judge how much food was available to perform the work needed to power the agricultural economy. A wide range of household accounts from the mid-sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century survive which have information on food served to servants and day labourers. These will be analysed to determine how many calories were eaten on a daily basis by labourers. In addition, prescribed institutional accounts for soldiers and for inmates in houses of correction, workhouses and hospitals will also be looked at. However, apart from the diet provided by Jacob Vanderlint for a London labourer and his family in the mid-eighteenth century there are no earlier diets for entire labouring families comparable to Eden and Davies.