The following is a post I made as another persona in the Maya group, Calakmul - that particular persona isn't a member of Ancient Ways (she's currently hording her sts), hence my posting this as Anah.

Below is a list of some of the foods that comprised the diet of a Maya:

Maize
Kidney beans
Sweet potatoes
Squashes
Avocado pears
Pawpaws
Guavas
Soursops
Melons
Mulberries
Some leafy plants that could be cooked similar to spinach
Some mushrooms
Turkey
Muscovy duck
Curassow
Doves

Maize was one of the dominate foods for the Maya. But before being able to use it to cook, it had to be shelled and then partially cooked in order to remove the hard covering. Once this was completed, the maize could be ground down into flour. This flour was used to make tortillas, dumplings and gruel. Men would often take the dumplings with them for a snack while working in the fields. The dumplings were the consistency of paste and wrapped in leaves to keep in the moisture. These were then mixed with water and flavored with chillis or another spice, sometimes they would eat them with meat.

In addition to chillis, vanilla and coriander were used for flavoring. Honey was used to sweeten and many households had bee-pots outside their homes which contained stingless bees. Raids were also sometimes conducted on the hives of wild bees to gather honey to increase stores. Honey was not only used to sweeten, it was also used to make a fermented drink similar to mead. The Maya mixed the honey with the bark of a tree and called it balche.

To supplement their domesticated foods, the Maya would also hunt. Deer, agouti, peccary, armadilloes, coatimundi and tapirs hunted and in the classic times, game seemed to be abundant. Iguanas, turtles and manatees were on the menu as well, with manatees and armadilloes considered special delicacies. There is also the possibility that the Maya ate snails and the larvae of the mud-wasp. In the case of the latter, they would heat the mud-nests until the larvae would wriggle out and then capture it.

Something I find a bit amusing (and forgive me my humor) is how the Maya used to fish. They would build a dam and then place narcotic drugs, obtained from certain plants, into the water above the dam. Needless to say, there were more than a few stoned fish that would rise to the surface and those luckless fellows would be picked out of the water by the fishermen. Talk about a bad trip! (on a more serious note, this information is in at least one source that I own, but I have not verified it with others, which I will do in time) In more extensive waters the fishermen would forego this rather strange practice and used both sweep and drag nets instead.

A brief addition to this post:
Last week I was reading The Peoples of North America by Christine Hatt and I noticed they mentioned that fishermen from some Southeastern Tribes (Native American) would also drug fish by putting narcotic herbs into the rivers enabling them to simply scoop "the dazed creatures" up from the surface of the water. Any thoughts on that Mangas? LOL