Peasant Foods (or poor people's food, sometimes including traditional foods) are those dishes specific to a particular culture made from accessible and inexpensive ingredients and usually prepared and spiced to make them more palatable. They have often formed a significant part of the diets of poor people.

Peasant foods are so-called as being the diet of peasants, that is, tenant or poorer farmers and their farm workers, and by extension, of other cash-poor people. They may use ingredients, such as offal, which are not as marketable as a cash crop.

Peasant foods are often delicious recipes, in which skilled preparation by knowledgeable cooks using inventiveness and skills passed down from earlier generations prepare dishes that are often prized as ethnic foods by other cultures and by descendents of the native culture who desire these traditional dishes even when their incomes rise to the point where they can purchase any food they like.