What is the pony diet

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

i will begin with what real horses and ponies actually eat

 

1.) Hay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5vcmF5-864

I love how Twilight says this. Although you never see them eat hay in the show

 

2.) Sugar Cubes 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBnJ1zeWrrM

You can see the sugar cubes at 0:48

Edited May 12, 2013 by TheMarkz0ne

[Flicker 141]

Well, we know that they eat meat. In Fall Weather Friends Pinkie Pie mentions eating hot dogs. Just thought I would throw that out there.

[Blue Moon 6,341]

They also eat cupcakes and drink punch. They also eat apples and drink apple cider. I will assume they drink water as well, but I don't remember seeing them drink any. However, in one episode, Pinkie Pie puts water in her mouth and spits it out.

[Octavia's Cellozoid 1,488]

Pastries, because of SugarCube corner, the first episode, and when Apple Bloom meets the rest of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. I'm pretty sure there are quite a few other instances, one being the picinic in Lesson Zero.

[Scootalove 10,689]

There are a lot of things in a pony's diet, even if it is mostly desserts or just regular stuff that horses eat.

 

1. Hay
2. Sugar Cubes
3. Cupcakes
4. Punch
5. Apples
6. Apple Cider
7. Meat
8. Vegetables
9. Sandwiches
10. Finger Foods and other fancy dishes

[Sunny Fox 5,951]

Well, we know that they eat meat. In Fall Weather Friends Pinkie Pie mentions eating hot dogs. Just thought I would throw that out there.

You do get vegetarian hot dogs, so it's not sufficient evidence that the ponies eat meat. Pinkie Pie's song in Over a Barrel says that their diet is "completely vegetarian", so I'm inclined to think that the hot dogs are vegetarian.

[TasteTheRainboom 82]

I guess they eat eggs too, since fluttershy had a whole chicken coop, they are prrobably used for baking cake too but seeing how they eat meat i dont think its imposible they eat dairy products. They also drink tea as seen when Celestia came to sugarcube corrner.

[Argumedies 1,748]

Finger food?... don't tell Lyra

 

Can't forget eggs. Rarity made eggs in Sisterhood Social

 

And on that note Sweetybell made some things that resembled food but what it was I don't think any of us wants to know.

 

 

Oh.. and Oatmeal. Pinky may not like it but its got to be there for her not to like in the first place

[Silverhoof 2,844]

the great apes are vegetarians. Humans are omnivores.

 

Ponies look no more like horses than humans look like apes. The faces are flat with barely a muzzle. The brains are huge. If humans can turn omnivorous, so can ponies. Its not that great of a stretch.

[Love*Potion 575]

While I'm sure the show began intending the ponies to be on a realistic, strict "vegetarian" diet, I think that fell flat. After all, why not? I suppose fluttershy would never approve... IDK. This is a weird subject. I'm sure the ponies eat what the writers want them to eat.

 

But all in all I would say that they munch on hay and oats, with quite a lot of yummy pastries in between 

[Flicker 141]

You do get vegetarian hot dogs, so it's not sufficient evidence that the ponies eat meat. Pinkie Pie's song in Over a Barrel says that their diet is "completely vegetarian", so I'm inclined to think that the hot dogs are vegetarian.

Oh. I had never heard of a vegetarian hot dog. That makes loads more sense I mean, it is Pinkie Pie, but still I wouldn't suspect her of carnivorism.

[Moonlight 7,286]

I would say vegetarian. The main reason being that in the "Gotta Share, Gotta Care" song, Pinkie sings the line, "Both our diets I should mention are completely vegetarian." That's my take. 

[Broseph Stalin 103]

I think smoothies or ice cream, like in the bad apple episode where babs takes the smoothie things from the cmc?

Or I could be going insane and seeing things.

[SoundRaptured 139]

Well they have water tanks but they don't drink it. they apparently eat hot dogs? but you never see them eat meat, especially in their flower sandwiches. o.O

[Zygen 6,066]

Idk they eat all kinds of random stuff, alot of apples I think considering how much they eat it since Applejack grows them and all.

 

Other then that they've eaten all kinds of vegetables. I can't specifically name all of them really. 

 

They are veggeterian, other then that they eat all kinds of random things, but besides apples I don't find them eating anything else to be a reoccurring thing to eat. It changes alot.

 

I guess you could always count in cupcakes, and cake, and alot of different sweets really .

[Jammo 986]

Rocks, batteries, dirt, mud, nails, drywall, brambles, sand, bones, cigars, ponies, crayons, plastic, beanbags, glass shards, fire, paper, feces, tar, Chinese takeout, lamps, floppy disks, teeth, eels, linen, ghosts, termites, Vaseline, sparkly glue.

 

Thes are wut ponies eats.

[Umbral Noir 1,556]

I think they might actually eat fish. Remember Fluttershy in episode 7 of season one, Fluttershy fed the beavers two fish, and was perfectly ok with it. I'm guessing that she might eat fish too then.

[Mr. White 71]

While Pinkie's song in the episode with the buffalo suggest that ponies are purely vegetarian, a sandwich with meat on it appears in the buffet at the episode "A bird in the hoof" when we see Applejack trying to figure out what to eat first, so it's really debatable.

[Rainbow Dash Loyalty 1,275]

I guess they're omnivores in the show, so I'm guessing that they have the same diet as a normal human being would eat. Healthy, fresh, green vegetables and fruit, while eating sugary sweets and a lot of fatty meat is the unhealthy side of their diet.

You rarely see any chubby fat ponies in the show actually, does that mean everyone is healthy there?