I love this game so far. The new food system is an improvement over the old one for sure. But currently alot of my adventuring has just boiled down to stamina management. Unless i eat only stamina items i cant really get into a fight without having to slowly run around the enemy until it recharges. I also have more inventory space devoted to food now as well. I was planning on trying a 2 handed weapon this time through but im always out of stamina so im back to a shield to better absorb the blows that i cant get away from. I do understand that this is a large overhaul and just needs a little bit of tweaking to balance it out.

P.S I checked my game before posting this and going back to the unbalanced food:
Cooked Boar meat grants 30 HP and 10 Stamina
Honey grants 8 HP and 35 stamina
But if you cook them into jerky you only get 20 HP and 20 Stamina where if I ate the base ingredients I would have 38 HP and 45 Stamina. So there's currently no point in cooking alot of this food because the base ingredients are worth double or more. The deer meat stew is worse. Only granting 40/13 while its ingredients would give 10/32(Carrot) 8/25(Blueberry) 35/12(Deer meat). I hadn't noticed how bad this was until I checked.