They had frogs, grasshoppers, crow and sparrows. It sounds like a 1940s Applachian feast.
We just spent two and a half weeks in Ireland. It's very prosperous now but in the mid 19th century was the great hunger, the famine when half the people died or immigrated. The same phenomenon of eating grass and bugs went on. Even now, we noticed that there are fewer birds and insects and even road kill than you would expect.