I'm thinking about changing all the food objects to new ingredient objects, as to me, cooking is totally pointless, and having carrots/cabbages, etc used in alchemy seems to make more sense.

I'm assuming, based on MW CS knowledge, an eventual search and replace of these food items to new ingredient items is possible, but I was wondering if anyone had yet experimented with ingredients, and it seems they must all have 4 effects, and really, these food items are cheap ingredients, and should offer at most 2 effects.

Would getting rid of food cause other problems, such as NPC eating animations. Don't really want to kill the game So might be just safer to replace levelled list food with ingredients instead, and leave the food placed in the world alone.