Usually means: Simple, traditional meal or snack.
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  1. bread-and-cheese: Wiktionary
  2. Bread and Cheese: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. bread and cheese, bread and cheese, bread and cheese: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (bread and cheese)

noun:  (dated, obsolete) A plain, simple or reduced diet or way of living; simple living with the most basic of necessities.
noun:  (archaic) A cheese sandwich.
noun:  Alternative form of bread-and-cheese [The edible young leaves of the hawthorn.]

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