Food was my bane during my first play through. Now I start with a mushroom farm and ignore it lol
Really though, if you're having trouble with food there's only three real trip I can give
1) Figure out your money first. When the brothel is giving you 10k a day, and another 10k every time you perform, it doesn't matter how much food you're using.
2) Use the tavern quests. You can occasionally get food in bulk for cheap. That's also how I get most of the building resources because I'm too lazy to haul it myself
3) Don't recruit large numbers until you've done tip #1 lol
For basically every play through I do, the only recruiting I do during the first 10 days or so high beauty characters to fill out the brothel and get myself set up on money for the rest of the game. And I absolutely never keep soldiers overnight, even though I regularly use them to boost rep with the king.
Really though, if you're having trouble with food there's only three real trip I can give
1) Figure out your money first. When the brothel is giving you 10k a day, and another 10k every time you perform, it doesn't matter how much food you're using.
2) Use the tavern quests. You can occasionally get food in bulk for cheap. That's also how I get most of the building resources because I'm too lazy to haul it myself
3) Don't recruit large numbers until you've done tip #1 lol
For basically every play through I do, the only recruiting I do during the first 10 days or so high beauty characters to fill out the brothel and get myself set up on money for the rest of the game. And I absolutely never keep soldiers overnight, even though I regularly use them to boost rep with the king.