How much food/drink do you carry?

[Quesci]

Marteeny wrote in another thread

10 slots for food and water? Does your raid last for a full week? 1 stack of food and water is plenty. Some may carry 2 stacks of food and drink. One with stats, and one to consume so you save your stat food. This saves you 6 slots.

And I got to thinking... I usually have more than 10 slots of food on me at any given time. But then I am a baker and HATE to waste stuff so I probably have more than most people. Still, some of what I have makes sense:

One stack of each:
Stat food: Hero Sandwiches // Qeynos Afternoon Tea
Resist food; Holy Cake // Kaladim Constitutional
+mana: Vann Toe Stew

I carry two stacks of water for force feeding myself to save tea. I have at least two stacks of food to force feed or just to eat when no special food is needed. Mind worm steaks, Centi steaks, Cheesy Casserole, basically whatever I picked up while farming recently. Even with the Metabolism AA, my horse eats a LOT of food. I go through a TON of right click food/drink on a typical raid day just to save my precious tea and sandwiches ("Tea and sandwiches" hardly sounds like adventurer food does it?).

Then I have the fun foods that I carry for effect. Gnome Shaped Cookies to bribe the ogres. Chocolate Covered Cherries for the diva in me. Catnip for the kitties. This doesn't count the bottle of champagne that I am carrying for when my guild finally manages to kill the Emperor.

So, how much food and drink do you carry around?

[racquet13]

3 stacks of each. Usually some plain food (Iron Rations/Water Flasks), and some assorted stat food, which I use situationally.

[Pojodan]

I'm cheep.

2 stacks of Obi Truffles and 2 stacks of Fizzlecutter.. lasts me a very long time without worrying about it, costs 1-3pp each for the truffles and 5gp or so per Fizzlecutter from dah gnome, and it adds to DEX and AGI, which I need.
The day I rely on stat food is the day I get my baking and brewing up to make them myself... which might not be too far off, truthfully.

[Xxyl]

Celoria carries 4 different types of food/drink each.

*Water/ Jord Pies (or whatever long lasting food I happen to make recently) - For eating during those "whatever/whenever" times and for force feeding.

*Qeynos Tea/ Misty Picnics - For when I'm skilling but carry them always since it's only 2 slots

*Grobb Meat/ Vann Stew - For XPing/raiding

*Constitutionals/ Boar Chops - For resists when/if I ever need them (like NEVER but I carry them anyways)


My SK carries 3 stacks each of Grobbs and HMPs. I keep her Qeynos Teas and Misty Picnics banked for skilling since I have to switch out her gear anyways to skill.

[Verdandi]

Two stacks each of Misty Picnics and Qeynos Tea. If I pick up other stuff that foragers have dropped or that's given for fun, I usually force feed it as appetite allows. Not worth the space to me to try to juggle around multiple foods. It's hard enough keeping track of all the skills stuff, quests stuff, stuff for sale, stuff to give to certain people, etc. Usually also another stack or two of each in the bank, in case there isn't any decently priced when I run out.

[karisun]

I keep a stack of MTP's and a stack of Qeynos tea in my first slots for the stats. I am also frequently asked by guildies for the picnic for the solstice earring quest, so carrying them with me saves me time and trouble. (I give the halfling gifts free to any in my guild who wants them since most of them pass on the meats they pick up in the planes for me to use for baking skillups.)

I force feed myself whatever I happen to forage, or if I've been making griffon/anaconda melts, I eat those. I rarely run out of food or drink since I can eat the stuff I find on the ground. Its kind of gross when you think about it, so I try not to.

K

[Taraddar]

I have a 10 slot bag thats mostly full of food.
I've got a couple stacks of my main food/drink, Halas meat pies and Kaladim constatutionals. I also carry around other assorted foods. Mephit meat pies for resists or trilian tail soup depending on the resist. Hero sandwhiches for more hps/mana and my 1 extra party plater for max hps/mana. Finally some left over holy cakes that I use for force feeding now.

Might change this some at some point since I don't go threw as much food anymore with metabolism 3.

I also have almost 2 bags of other stuff. A couple peices of resist gear, a few clicky items a key or 2 and a couple important reagents.

[Sanna]

my main's a druid, so my standard fare is generally... what i find on the ground. ^_^ and i have copious amounts of it, since i don't bake with fruits or berries anymore, and the need for veggies has gone way down. (Did I mention the stacks and stacks of useless ROOTS that I forage like candy in pok? I have deleted them by the stack loads before!) I forage pods of water, which are just as good as flasks, as far as drinking them goes.

Switching stuff around on my mule the other day, I found four entire stacks of Fuzzle's! I was like, why? Thanks to shared bank space, I can easily xfer the extra stacks of pods of water to the other two chars, should I ever actually want to play my monk anymore. (Sullon only allows for 3 chars per account, not the standard 8.) Plus, I found 2 stacks of Berries and a stack of Fruit and either one or two stacks of Veggies on that mule. I'm in the food.... : /

Plus, the druid main is a baker. If I consolidated, I could easily fill a 10 slot bag with just what i carry on meself, not even what i chunk in the bank.

If I ever go back to the monk, I envision this: 100 WR bag with 2 stacks of Halas 10, and two stacks of Water Pods/Flasks.

Anyone who forages or bakes probably has more food than normal/necessary/everyone else. So do realize that I count meself among the exceptions, and not necessarily the rule.

-- sanna

[uncleshmoozo]

I usually wind up having between 10 and 20 stacks of various assorted foraged food and drink on my druid. I actually save the interesting foraged items that are useful for tradeskills and stash them on a mule I have for that purpose.

I can, of course, drop or destroy stacks of excess pods of water or other foraged items to open up some space for various loot, but it's nice to have a few extra stacks of things to hand out to group-mates who run out of one or the other.

[Moraganth]

Generally 3 stacks food, 2 stacks drink. I never remember to force feed, so i've pretty much given up on keeping specific stat food... and the consumtion rate for fish rolls and fuzzlecutters is 3:2.. so if i actually carry what i normally do without anyone giving me other stuff, i can resupply at the same time (although, that never seems to work out anymore.. ).

[kagonis]

I personally hate to concern myself about remembering to buy or forage for food and/or drink.

I don't really care what kind of food and drink I carry around, as long as it is long lasting. I carry anything from Hero Sandwiches to Halas 10lb Meat Pie, to the good old Misty Thicket Picnic. I have even made some Tormentors Stir Fry, but I gave that to our tank, since 50 HP is more for them. Allthough, I can only make 3 Tormentors Stir Fry from 1 Tormentor Part, and an entire Saryrn raid only produces about 5 Tormentor Parts (that is a raid that lasts at least 2+ hours, with killing of NPCs just about all the time).

I started out with using 1 bag for food and drink, 5 slots for each type. But then changed this to 1 bag for food and one bag for drink, when I saw that I drank all my Fuzzlecutter Formula 5000 (5 stacks = 100) in less than a week (My Seru Horse drinks a lot, or I sit alot on it /boggle) as well as food diminisshed rapidly.

Now I have Innate Metabolism (OMG I love that AA) and now I'm back to just 5 slots of drink and 5 slots of food again.

It cost very little to make food, so why bother with the cheap stuff?

I still have 4+ bags filled with Misty Thicket Picnics from back when I skilled up my baking, about a month or two back, and I still try out new things if I get the parts, wich then again saves me even more MTP's. And since I tend to spend most my exp time quadding in HoH I get components for Hero Sandwiches and make those a lot too.
Most of the stuff I make I stove away in bank on a mule, either to give away to guildies, or to take from if I'm too lazy to make a new batch.

[GremlinClr]

Since Im a GM baker, I carry a stack of MTPs and a stack of Fuzzlecutters. I stop at a bank at least 3 times a play session, why carry more than 1 stack? Leaves more room for loots.

[Suva]

I carry qeynos tea and halas pies normally.

I also have constitutionals and holy ake for resist as well swamp rat crunchies.

I have my party platters for when I won;t be using a mount, just in case.

I use stacks of foraged stuff from time for force feeding.

[Balkin]

My melee's...

1 stack HMP's/1 stack Grobbs

My Casters

1stack MTP's/1 stack Constitutionals.

Force feeding is annoying, and I never remember anyway, so why bother? Just eat em! I can make the brews myself, and I'm working on being able to make the food as well. *shrug* It's not THAT much plat.

[Draggar]

I'll ocassionaly go to Ocean of Tears to work on fishing, and since my fishing is high, I catch a lot of fresh fish.

I'll usualy stop in WFP and buy 10 stacks of batwings.

Make fish rolls, maybe sell half, and keep the other half for me. When they run low, I go back and work on fishing. (Hey, Saltwater Seaweeds sell for 15PP each and thank god they're stackable now!)

(Oh, and the question!)

I will usualy carry 2 stacks of rolls with me and 2 stacks of water, but I may switch to Fuzz's..