Food....do I really need it? If not, the tonnes of food I have on me, I'm going to dump to get the weight allowance back.....the RPG aspect of the game I can live without.

You only need it for the effects... some things like vegetable soup, elsweyr fondue, and horker stew have great potion-like effects. If you want to make them, you have to have the food items. Like Moon sugar,eider cheese wheel and ale for the fondue.

Yeah, you won't starve unless you have some kind of realistic needs mod(s).

I'm relieved. For a second I thought you were going to get rid of the game.