does anybody use the in game food instead of health potions.

i tried on my argonian hunter as RPing but i found i couldnt carry enough to properly sustain my self.

I always keep food on me. If I run out of potions, I've usualy got enough food to to give my health enough of a boost to survive the confrontation.

I don't use in-game food, although I'm thinking about installing a hunger mod...I don't know.

I always tend to carry some venison stew with me, as it provides health/ stamina regeneration properties, it is good for a sword and board fighter because it basically allows for nearly unlimited power attacks and shield bashes. Otehrwise the majority of the recipes are useless to the abudancies of health potions. I would have preferred the Bethesda made it so you charachter would get hungry and require you to eat by imposing negative buffs to stamina or health, and then use the recipes to give positive buffs for a few hours after the meal if you ate a prepared meal that is.... stuff like increased melee damage, or magic resistance depending on the recipe... kind of like the well rested bonus for sleeping.

My characters cook and eat food everyday for RP purposes. Very rarely I will use one of the more useful foods in a fight (like the fondue made with Moon Sugar for my mage). I think cooking the food is a lot of fun. Maybe we will see a few more useful recipes pop up in a DLC or a patch.

I did at first.....then just got bored of it and gave up.

I only eat food when I'm at an Inn and I feel the need for my character to eat, or when I slaughter an animal so just I don't feel like I killed them for nothing.

RP only, same as sleeping, drinking and giving change to beggars.

i devoured so much cabbage soup

In my current character I made and ate a lot of food. There are several foods that are as potent as minor potions. Very useful. Around level 20 I started to make potions that were much stronger, so I will stop making and using apple cabbage stew and cabbage potato soup. But venison stew and vegetable soup I will always have some on me.

Horker stew is very good also, I noticed. Homecooked meal is very powerful if you marry. + 25% regen magicka, health, stamina for 5 minutes, according to what I read.

I do, because I'm using food and drink requirement mods. However, on the PS3 I don't use.. They weight infinite and a healing potion is better.

Most useful cooked foods weigh .5 units, same as a potion. But very few foods are useful after early game. Venison stew vegetable soup remain useful the whole game for a melee type.

I think the food is pretty useless in the game. If only the game had a hard-core option... I've looked at some hunger mods, but they seem needlessly complicated in my opinion. Calculating calories and stuff.

Hmm. Salt Pile + Deathbell = Potion of Slow. Slow is a good combat tool and is also worth good money.

Salt Pile + X + Y = some kind of food that restores Z health and Q stamina and is worth $0.

I messed with a food for a few levels last character but with the exception of a couple types, both of which share several ingredients with some useful and profitable potions, it's just kinda meh. It's cool that it's in the game but when you consider that it competes with alchemy and you get no points toward level progress when making food, it becomes apparent that it's only purpose is that Bethesda can say it's in the game.

Meh, i'm a dark-elf thief, i don't need any food. It only makes me fat and sloppy;)

My Nord needs cheese. Lots and lots of cheese. I love horking down three or four wheels of cheese in the middle of a battle. It's just funny to me.

Home-cooked meal.

Same here ...

My Nord is distrustful of potions and I learned the hard way that the HP food gives you is negligible and completely unsuited as a replacement for potions, so I installed a mod that boosts its usefulness. Stocking up on apples is much more appealing now that they grant me +20 HP a pop. (;

Yea i use ingame food to roleplay hunger and thirst. In rare emergencies or just feeling plain lazy i'll use food during combat to heal up but its rare.

At low levels I carried a lot of created food to sustain health, I lacked gold to purchase potions. In later levels I have aquired more gold so now I buy potions though I still use created food when I can get ahold of it.

I use it for RPing, but it isn't effective enough for me to use it in place of health potions.

I don't eat in combat, I was conditioned from the fable games of what food can do to a hero in battle. lol.

I don't use it in combat. The only reason I use food is for roleplaying purposes.

Nothing more realistic than stopping combat to shove entire loaves of bread, haunches of meat, barrels of apples, and gallons of soup into your face - lemme tell ya. I do that all the time.