Famine foods

[retrowl]

In times of extreme poverty or crises, people have used various forms of famine foods to survive. In Project Zomboid, meanwhile, you find yourself cooking Grilled Cheese Sandwich. During a zombie apocalypse.

 

I want a chance to make stuff like bark bread (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread) and cook tea from nettles. There's a decent list of famine food examples on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_food. For some more American examples, check out this ethnobiological article of American famine foods: http://ethnobiology.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/JoE/11-2/Minnis.pdf

 

Famine foods should be an easy way to stay alive but of course also cause a lot of unhappiness. Adding such "inferior" food recipes would make the cooking system much deeper.

[Snuggler]

there are worms. it would be cool if you could add them to stew to counter the unhappiness.

 

arctic explorers (cant remember which ones) were reduced to eating there leather boots and belts. boiling them up with bones from dogs and fish. maybe a little extreme for this case though.

[Jam]

I think things like this isn't common knowledge, and players should become familiar with the ideas of famine food as their survival skills increase (foraging, trapping, etc). As the levels increase, the more they get out of the food.