Build 34 Food Build Suggestions

[Blake81]

With the advent of the new Nutrition System on Build 34, I was thinking that maybe we should gather our suggestions for this build here rather than on the Food Tracker thread. Feel free to add your own.

 

(Disclaimer, only suggest things RELATED TO THE FOOD SYSTEM, not just some thing you'd rather see added in this build)

 

So, with that said, here come mine:

 

 

-New Dishes and Recipes

 

1. Fruit Jams

 

This is something that I'm sure has been suggested before; we should be able to make Jam out of some fruits and berries as a way to preserve the fruits other than the good ol' ''Jars of Pickled Fruit''. Jam wouldn't require Vinegar, but it would require much more sugar, as well as a Pot of Water, some heat source to boil the fruits and the usual Empty Jars and their Lids.

 

Unlike normal fruit preserves, the Jams would be a bit less nutritive, but would also have a very useful Happiness Bonus, as well as the fact a skilled chef could make them using rotten fruit without any complications.

 

Not to mention they could be used as ingredients for all kinds of sandwiches, including THE LEGENDARY PB&J sandwich! Which would give us about two days of immunity to the infection just because of how cool it is! (jk'n)

 

 

2. Fruit Juices and Shakes

 

This would be much simpler than the Jams. We'd only need the fruit, some water and the Blender (see the suggestion on Tools & Utensils), and maybe give you the option to add Sugar or not. The Shakes would be the same plus the addition of Milk.

 

The biggest advantage of the Juices and Shakes would be that you could fill a bottle with them and use them instead of water (for a few days before they go bad). They would have a lower thirst removal, but would instead have a few advantages, such as a healthy intake of vitamins and such. After all, what's healthiest that the good ol' Carrot and Tomato Juice?

 

 

3. The Potatoes: Mashes, French Fries and Chips

 

Seriously, I can't believe this hasn't been added yet; the potatoes is one of the tastiest and most versatile tubers Mother Nature has ever blessed us with, and yet they're only used in soups and stews. That's downright criminal!

 

The first thing to come to mind is the Potato Mash; you just boil some potatoes in a pot of water until they're soft and crush them with a Potato Masher (see the suggestion on Tools & Utensils) and VOILA! You have a tasty mash you can add all sorts of extra ingredients like Bacon, Butter and Cheese for extra tastyness. It'd be quite calorie-heavy, so it'd probably help a lot to gain some weight.

 

Then come the French Fries & Chips. Just grab a Kitchen knife and either slice 'em or dice 'em, and some salt and fry them on a Pan. Still, given how greasy these two are, they wouldn't be as healthy as the as the Mash, but they'd be of help to someone who needed to gain some extra weight.

 

 

4. Mincemeat: Patties, Hash and Meatballs

 

Mincemeat isn't only versatile in what you can make with it, but also a skilled chef can cut the best bits of a piece of rotten meat and use them for mincemeat without much of a risk of intoxication. Just imagine if you could make something useful out of all that rotten meat you end up with sooner or later?

 

To make the mincemeat, we would just need the Meat Grinder (see the suggestion on Tools & Utensils) and some effort. Then the result can be modeled into either tasty meatballs for your Spaghetti, Patties for your Hambugers, or eaten just as it is in the shape of Hashed Meat. Or if you're feeling really creative, you could add it to the Potato Mash and make some ''Tambor de Papas''; you don't know how tasty it is until you try it, hehehe...

 

This could help to add the good protein of meat to many dishes.

 

 

5. Beans

 

I don't understand why we can only have canned beans and no fresh ones. Beans contain a rather high amount of carbohydrates, making them quite nutritive. And since the uncooked beans often have a very long shelf life, they could be just as useful as their canned variants when it came to hoarding non-perishable food.

 

Plus, you could make bean salads, bean broth, PLATOS DE FRIJOLES, and many other things...

 

 

 

-Tools and Utensils

 

 

1. The Toaster

 

Well, truth to be told, this one's ALREADY IN GAME, but there's only ONE and it works just like a normal Oven. It'd be great if we could make more use of it (and that were MORE of it), not only to toast our bread slices, but also to to make Cheese Toasts and other similar snacks.

 

 

2. The Blender

 

As seen above, it'd be great to make all sorts of juices and shakes. As well as yet another good reason to get a Generator running once the power fails.

 

 

3. The Potato Masher

 

Just a simple tool for the aforementioned task, it'd found in kitchens and the like. It should be pretty common as I don't think it can be used for anything other than making Potato Mash. (I just can't imagine being able to kill a Zed with that...)

 

 

4. The Meat Grinder

 

It'd be used to grind all of that meat into mincemeat. And maybe once we're capable of cultivating peanuts (see the suggestion on New Crops), we could go use the ol' 19th Century method to make Peanut Butter...

 

 

 

-New Crops

 

 

1. Peanut Plants

 

Since peanuts already exist in their non-butter shape within the game (Mostly found on the Sunstar Motel, I think), I believe we should be able to grow peanut plants as well. The Peanut plants aren't only hard enough for you to grow them on garden pots, but they also improve the fertility of the soil so maybe they could help to keep other nearby plants healthy. Plus, by having a steady supply of peanuts, we could keep making delicious Peanut Butter, even after the ones found in homes run out.

 

 

2. Watermelon Vines

 

Melons come with lots of seeds, don't they? And I'm sure it would be more than possible to plant those seeds to get a good watermelon vine growing. They're a slow-growing plant, and often quite weak to the forces of nature, such as snow, bugs and hordes of stomping Zed, so they'd be rather hard to farm. Nonetheless, the fact that just one Watermelon is enough to make you Very Well Fed should justify this difficulty.

 

 

3. Beanstalks

 

Like I'm well sure that Jack knew before he planted them, all you need to grow a beanstalk is just a handful of beans and some patience. The beanstalks are also quite durable as a crop; being rather resilient to many bugs and diseases. However, they are also a summer crop, so it'd be impossible to properly farm them during winter. Also, they're perhaps the easiest to farm grain, unlike with Rice and Wheat, so they make a very good choice of crop for the apocalypse.

 

 

4. Grapevines

 

We have grapes already in-game, so maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to be able to grow grapevines as well. Maybe we could even somehow make Raisins or even brew Wine using them. Or in case that fails, we could learn all sorts of interesting rumors from them

 

 

That'd be all for now. I'll keep adding more ideas as I think of them.

 

 

 

-New Traits

 

 

1. Sweet Tooth

 

You just LOVE eating sweet things.

 

·Increased happiness earned from consuming sweets.

 

·Decreased Negative effects of SOME junk food (Chocolates, Mint Candies, Lolipops, Jam, anything sugary)

 

·Easier reduction of Fats when consuming sugary food (sugar makes it easier for the body to process fats)

[Barghaest]

Recipes is my major category of modding... there's lots of ingredients I add to dishes that aren't set up for it in PZ.... for instance, I often put black pepper on my sandwiches (habit I got into after eating so many subs...) and I frequently make salads like a sub sandwich with more lettuce than bread (including mustard, salt and pepper).

 

Sometimes I use mainly fruit in my salads... or uncooked ramen crumbled up...

 

Then there's chili... lots of possibilities there. I just had some beef and bean chili with crushed tortilla chips, shredded lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream, onions, and sliced hot dogs...

 

And I often cook roast using canned soup as a base (cream of celery or onion mainly)...

 

I'm not even going to get started on the stuff I can do with fish...

 

Of course, I'm a bit of a wizard in the kitchen. ​

[Demonic_Kat]

Recipes is my major category of modding... there's lots of ingredients I add to dishes that aren't set up for it in PZ.... for instance, I often put black pepper on my sandwiches (habit I got into after eating so many subs...) and I frequently make salads like a sub sandwich with more lettuce than bread (including mustard, salt and pepper).

 

Sometimes I use mainly fruit in my salads... or uncooked ramen crumbled up...

 

Then there's chili... lots of possibilities there. I just had some beef and bean chili with crushed tortilla chips, shredded lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream, onions, and sliced hot dogs...

 

And I often cook roast using canned soup as a base (cream of celery or onion mainly)...

 

I'm not even going to get started on the stuff I can do with fish...

 

Of course, I'm a bit of a wizard in the kitchen. ​

Sir, it sounds like you are living in PZ. I've never heard of chili with half that stuff in it... and I stopped eating raw ramen when they started letting me use the stove. Bravo on the creativity though!

[Barghaest]

Actually, I got the idea for that with chili from the 82 World's Fair... there was a place there called Petro's. They opened a place in Westgate mall after the fair and whenever I visited my brother (who lived in Knoxville) we'd go there for lunch.

[Blake81]

Hm, I hadn't suggested Chili along their plants because I thought they wouldn't grow on Kentucky's weather (as they're a hot weather crop).

 

That said, Chili would be a pretty good thing to have around; the reason they're so spicy is because they have a very high vitamin C content so they're quite healthy. And plus, they can be cultivated on ANYTHING; my grandma had a Habanero plant growing on a soup can at her kitchen's window and it lasted for almost a decade.

 

So if someone could confirm me that Chili CAN grow on Kentucky, I'll add it to the suggestions list.

[Blake81]

Anyhow, added the New Traits, along with the Sweet Tooth trait.

 

I have an idea for Vegetarian/Carnivore Traits, but I am not sure of how to balance them...