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Food, Hunger, and Rations

Basic Ration Rules

There are three levels of rationing food supplies; Meager/Minimal, Standard, and Filling. Though one may choose to go without food to further stretch rations, that has no effect on the recovery rate outside of increased hunger.

• Meager Rations – Tight rationing of food and water consumed, just enough to avoid going too hungry. Characters under meager rationing do not recover any hit dice on a short rest, but do recover hit dice on a long rest as normal. For an adventurer, this is 3-5 servings of food per day; less than that incurs hunger.
• Standard Rations – Moderate rationing of food and water consumed, satisfying most needs, though excessive activity (such as adventuring) might put a strain on your energy reserves. Characters under standard rationing will regain 1 hit die after completing a short rest if they do not spend any hit dice to heal that rest. For an adventurer, this is 6-7 servings of food per day.
• Filling Rations – Enough to fill the belly without feeling bloated afterward, easily covering the needs of an adventuring day. Characters under filling rationing will regain 1 hit die after completing a short rest, even if they do spend hit dice to heal that rest, and will regain an additional hit die if they do not. For an adventurer, this is 8-10 servings of food per day.

Going beyond filling rations grants no benefit, other than wasting food, and may have further consequences depending on the level of gluttony...

Hunger Rules

Foods, Ingredients

Beans:

• Eggbeans: Eggbeans are large, white, and rounded, their taste is not at all like eggs, but instead have a mild sweetness to them.

Beer: Made from grains that have been fermented, this thick drink is more like liquid bread than beverage.
Berries:

• Bnavbna: The Bnavbna berry is sweet and creamy, and its juice is akin to milk in texture.

Bread:

• Bannock: Made from refined grains, it has a fairly smooth mouth-feel.
• Everygrain: Made from whatever flours and grains are handy, the nutritional value tends to vary, as well as the taste and texture.

Bread, Unleavened:

• Crackers: This dry, unleavened bread is mostly tasteless, and desperately wants a spread on it, or to be dunked in soup.
• Hardtack: This is more or less flour cooked into a brick form. It keeps quite well, but is difficult to eat without considerable effort.
• Panbread: Usually cooked fresh, it can be made in a pan on a campfire without baking, and is quite tasty.

Eggs: Fairly easy to obtain, and often plentiful, eggs are a wonderful source of nutrition.

• Comper Eggs: The small eggs of the compers are very common, and perhaps the most eaten of any sort.
• Derpokke Eggs: Salamanders lay many eggs, but they may be difficult to obtain, and are rarely laid.
  • Frorb Eggs:
• Goots Eggs: The huge eggs of a goots are difficult for a single person to eat.
• Horned Folk Eggs: While farming these is not likely on any real scale, it would be remiss to not mention that the eggs laid by the horned folk do sometimes wind up in the kitchen.
• Labue Eggs: Labue lay small clutches of eggs, but they are the perfect size for many applications.

Fruits

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Greens Leafy plants, known colloqually as "greens", this misnomer comes from the Patrons' Tongue. Perhaps they see color differently?

• Calaclatu: This fruit has a grassy taste, and its juice is light and refreshing.
• Kabajolli: Thick, red stalks with heads of tiny flowers that really like to catch sauce. Can be considered bitter by some, but often enjoyed. ||
• Lucuhael's Hair: Deep, dark, nearly black tubers of the Lucuhael's Feathers plant, and the only edible part aside from the healing flowers. Little taste on its own, but nutrient dense.
• Pota-Potah: A desert plant with thick growths that could be called leaves. Very prickly, but has a nice taste once peeled. Often pickled. The bright pink fruit of the pota-potah is quite sweet, though also dry. Care must be taken to peel it, but it provides a lot of energy. While its fruit has too little water, the pota-potah plant itself has wonderfully intoxicating juice. Take care when harvesting and preparing.
• Salacci: These broad, dark green leaves are dense in bitter and spicy flavor. The serving weight is for raw, as when cooked they lose 90% of their mass.

Frorb Meat: Frorbs are lean, but packed with protein, and are very easy to care for.
Milk: While it can be an expensive substance, it is still quite delicious and in demand. Lactation can be induced in several ways, leading to most anyone being able to produce it, though it is mostly only the Shabbali that regularly do so. As such, most milk comes from the Shabbali, who understandably do produce more than other Horned folk. Still, it does not keep terribly well, so it is usually consumed fresh, or turned into cheese or butters.
Salt: An essential mineral. Though mining it is very difficult without breaking into the Underneath, the Abyssals refine it from the saltwaters of the abyss.
Sausage:

• Blood Sausage: Made of congealed blood and bits of less appetizing meat. Some have a taste for it, but others not so much.
• Dried Sausage: Preserved, fatty sausage in natural casing. Keeps well, strong taste.
• Fish Sausage:
• Liver Sausage: More of a liver paste shoved into casing, this is very much an acquired taste.
• Numble Sausage:
• Smoked Sausage: Cooked by smoking, this sausage keeps for a little bit, but can be eaten without much further preparation.

Salamander Tail Fat: A nutritious substance created by rendering down the harvested fat from a giant river salamander. It is used for primarily for cooking, though higher quality fats may be seasoned for consumption by itself, as the more solid it is at base temperature the better it is regarded. Low quality tail fat is often used as lamp oil. \\