Andor's Trail

We're in the ideas forum here, and the topic at hand is "Making food more useful"
So: don't focus on hunger, time, whatever, but bring out some ideas guys!

I'll try one: use mushrooms in future potions (Lodar?), apples and pears in brews to create cider (with intoxicated actor condition when you drink too much of it)

Believe the " hunger " and " time " part was mentioned in the OP, however your idea falls in the lines of crafting ...
+1 though, I am a fan of that sort of thing too, and woul add more purpose to our food...
Anyways, enjoy the forums guys....