Out of curiosity, do you folks actually use foods as your primary healing sources, or use the other two options? I admit, I usually depend on Restoration spells, but I can't help but hoard/cook foods...I think I'm an immersionist.

I never use food for anything besides rp, and cure disease along with potions for cure disease.

I never use foods, always been interested as I have a kitchen in my houses but never actually bothered. My main source is potions and restoration although I rely mainly on potions.

No. The trade-off of weight:benefit is horrible with food. If only "10 points" is the best I'm going to get from a dish, then a 0.5 Vigorous Health Potion will win out every time.

It looks like there was going to be something behind cooking, but it must have been shelved due to *cough* time constraints.

I do baked and cook, but only for the fun of it. My food cabinet has every dish I can make.

I suppose cooking is good for role playing etc

I pretty much only use restoration and the odd potion for healing, but recently I started a new character that uses only potions. It's tough not using spells to heal because I've always done that, but it makes the game harder and more fun when you need to manage potions, or if you're stuck without any in the middle of a battle.

Anyways, I tried using food to heal but I just find it ridiculous needing to carry around 50 soups just to heal for a trip exploring. The beef and veggie stew that restore health and stamina plus Elsweyr fondue are the only food items that are worth using. Eating 3 beef stew and you can sprint almost nonstop. Really useful as a werewolf or Vampire Lord, even if in the sun for the latter.