The food changes are acceptable for me, but they've absolutely murdered shields and shield play. I'm up in the mountains and the only viable strategy is to mash attack against wolves because blocking or parrying them just means you get stunlocked, staggered, zero stamina and killed. If the viable solution is "just attack through enemies hitting you" that's bad game design. If you got caught without stamina previously, you could at least buy some time and space to recover, but now it's just instant death.