If you’ve played Corepunk for any amount of time—especially across multiple characters—you’ve likely found yourself buried in food ingredients like carrots, watermelon, cabbage, and more. What should you keep? What’s worth cooking? What should be sold or just thrown away? This guide gives you a clear rundown of how to manage your cooking inventory, what ingredients are worth using, and how to save yourself both gold and storage headaches.

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Turn These Into Ingredients Immediately

Wheat Seeds → Wheat Flour
You’ll get overloaded with wheat seeds early. Turn almost all of them into wheat flour, which is used in many top-tier health and mana regeneration recipes.

Corn → Corn Flour
Don’t bother with popcorn—it’s expensive and underwhelming. Corn flour, on the other hand, is used in strong offensive food buffs and some quest items.

Eggplant → Crunchy Grilled Eggplant
Keep a few raw eggplants on hand for a quest that requires three. Crunchy grilled eggplant is the best use for the rest, and it leads into higher-tier foods like Titan Sandwich.

Blueberries → Blueberry Pie or Wild Berry Bread
Blueberry pie is one of the best duo-regeneration foods (health and mana), and wild berry bread is used in advanced recipes like Titan Sandwich.

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Useful Low-Level Staples

Bread
Often obtained from early quests. Keep it as a cheap and effective healing food. It remains useful into level 20 for topping off between fights.

Poultry Legs → Roasted Poultry Legs
These outperform bread in healing but cost a salt to make. Good early-game value, but use salt sparingly.

Red Fish Fillet → Mana Pasta
Hands down the best mana regeneration food. Always prioritize Mana Pasta when using fish.

Chocolate (Choc’lawat)
Made from elder tree kernel. Used in quests and for making Stinkers (good dual regen). Keep the chocolate—ditch the “Healthy Max” alternative.

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Ingredients to Sell or Trash

Cabbage
Almost everything you can make with cabbage is inefficient or overpriced. Vendor it at a high-rate shop (aim for ~43%).

Pine Cone
No value—just trash it. Don’t even bother selling.

Flora Globe
Requires red mushrooms, which are better saved for offensive buffs. Throw out Flora Globes.

Oak and Soul Seed
Not worth the effort or resources to use—discard.

Rice Seeds
Contrary to rumors, these aren’t usable like wheat seeds. They serve no current function—throw them away.

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Keep These for Quests or Buff Foods

Carrots
Used in many offensive buff recipes. Avoid wasting them on low-value salads.

Cheese
Save it for Titan Sandwiches and Energy Egg Toast. Cheese is versatile and essential in several high-value dishes.

Onions
Combine with carcasses for grilled/roasted versions required in quests. Optional for Lucky Salads (for spellcasters).

Pumpkin
Keep for multiple recipes like Lucky Salad (late-game casters), Pumpkin Bread (healing), and Veil Leaf Stuffed Pumpkin (buff food).

Pumpkin Seeds
Used for Crispy Fried Ribs (a quest item). Handy to have one character who can cook this cheaply.

Ribs → Crispy Fried Ribs
Used in quests. Gemnut Rib Feast is another good use—a cheap heal with leaf mob parts.

Mushrooms
Used in high-value buff foods like tacos and rolls. Save all mushrooms.

Eggs
Needed for a specific quest (12 per character). Also used in multiple endgame recipes and blueberry pie.

Thorn Orb Shards
Used in Mana regeneration casseroles. Good value.

Greenwood Gemnut
Use with ribs for cheap heals.

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Misc Notes and Inventory Strategy

• Don’t cook everything. Some ingredients are better raw or stored.
• Many food buffs become useful only in late game (world bosses, PvP, etc.). Until then, focus on storage and simple heals.
• Ingredients like watermelon or sugar have limited use early on. Some food types are used purely to make use of leaf mob drops.
• Buff food like Magic Cookie (movement speed) and Energy Egg Toast have niche PvP/PvE value but come later.

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Final Thoughts

This guide isn’t about gourmet cooking—it’s about cleaning up your bank and knowing which ingredients are worth keeping. You’ll streamline your inventory, save gold, and be better prepared for crafting when the time comes. Keep what’s useful, sell or toss what’s not, and don’t burn all your salt on poultry legs.

Remember: sometimes, just eating bread really is the best call.