Food is a necessity among the survivors, just like for every living human. One must eat to stay alive and energized, or one will gradually grow weaker until they suffer a slow and painful death by starvation. Staying nourished is getting increasingly harder in this new world, especially when you train yourself a lot by killing zombies, as that requires a lot of energy, proteins and other minerals which have become quite rare since the outbreak.

Hunger System

In the beginning, everyone starts with 100% Nourishment / Hunger. While staying logged in and at an outpost, 1% Nourishment is lost every 30 minutes, but if you are wandering through the Inner City, 1% Nourishment is lost every two minutes. When you are starving for too long, 1% Health is lost every hour, so food is essential to keep yourself alive in the long run. While staying logged out, 1% Hunger is lost every hour, with a maximum loss of 3%.

Your Hunger Status affects the amount of Experience Points (EXP) you earn per zombie kill. With 75% or more nourishment, 125% EXP will be earned whereas between 50-74%, only 100% EXP will be earned, 25-49% you only earn 75% EXP, and 24% or less you only earn 50%. A smart survivor always keeps his stomach full.

There are currently 36 kinds of food, which can be either found in the Inner City or produced by Farmers. Most Food types can be cooked to clean them of possible bacteria or simply make them more delicious, which ultimately increases their nourishment effectiveness. Chefs which are equal to or above the required Cooking Level of certain food items can cook it to triple its effectiveness.

Every Food type has a level of effectiveness, which means that everyone under and equal to the Nutrition Level will be able to use the food item to it's full effect. If you are 1 - 10 Levels above the Nutrition Level of an item (Example: A Level Survivor that is between 31 to level 40 inclusive, eats Level 30 Rice) then you will be only able to restore 3% of your Hunger with it, 9% if the food is cooked. All food that is of even lower quality cannot nourish you if it's raw (0%) and only gives you 1% Nourishment if you cook it.

Important Notes

• Your Hunger Status stays the same when you die and revive afterwards.
• Hunger affects EXP gain, so be sure to stay Nourished when you plan to train on zombies.
• All Level 50 Food currently works for every survivor up to Level 200.
• If you are a Service Class (Chef / Doctor / Engineer), you will lose a good deal of nourishment per hire or whenever you use your skills for yourself, so be sure to include these losses in your financial and training plans. The current Nourishment losses are 8%, 8%, 10% for the Chef, Doctor and Engineer Classes respectively.

Hunger Indicators

Nourished = 75% - 100% Fine = 50% - 74% Hungry = 25% - 49% Starving = 0% - 24%

Level 1 - 10 Food
Potato Chips
Restores 15% Hunger Nutrition Level 10 Scrap Value: $ 15	These basic potato chips are numerous in this apocalyptic world, which clearly indicates why so many people tell tales of terribly annoying fat zombies.
Beer
Restores 20% Hunger Nutrition Level 10 Scrap Value: $ 15	One of the most common beverages before the outbreak, and still very common after, this no-name beer is one of the two worst types of foods. The only taste people still get from this drink, is a foul, unhealthy one, but at least it satisfies their thirst for a while.
Candy
Restores 25% Hunger Nutrition Level 10 Scrap Value: $ 15	The most common junk food that contains only low nutrient content, but starving survivors found it very useful for the sugar rush it gives.
Dog Biscuits
Restores 30% Hunger Nutrition Level 10 Scrap Value: $ 15	Desperately enough, foods for dogs are being eaten by starving survivors who were left out of the first effects of the outbreak.
Millet
Restores 15% Hunger Restores 45% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 10 Can be cooked by Chef Level 5+ Scrap Value: $ 15	Grown by farmers as a simple and fast food resource since the early days of Nastya's Holdout, Millet is still a common and cheap source of food among the survivors. Even though it has only a low nutrient content, it still somewhat nourishes and keeps a survivor up and running for a day. This food cannot be looted in the Inner City.
Level 11 - 20 Food
Tinned Spaghetti
Restores 8% Hunger Restores 24% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 20 Can be cooked by Chef Level 15+ Scrap Value: $ 45	One of the more messy snacks that are available to a survivor, tinned spaghetti is a tasty treat that is a great deal more beneficial if cooked first. Make sure you bring a can opener.
Tinned Hotdogs
Restores 10% Hunger Restores 30% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 20 Can be cooked by Chef Level 15+ Scrap Value: $ 45	Hotdogs with extended shelf life from its tin can which protected it from contamination is able to satisfy the hunger of most survivors.
Baked Beans
Restores 12% Hunger Restores 36% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 20 Can be cooked by Chef Level 15+ Scrap Value: $ 45	Its long shelf life and and high protein content made this food very favorable for satisfying the growing needs of a survivor.
Dog Food
Restores 12% Hunger Restores 36% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 20 Can be cooked by Chef Level 15+ Scrap Value: $ 45	While most of the foods are taken by panicking people before the outbreak, some hungry survivors have no choice but to eat these.
Seeds
Restores 15% Hunger Restores 45% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 20 Can be cooked by Chef Level 15+ Scrap Value: $ 45	Seeds are, while not a very common food, quite healthy, energizing and they have an amazing shelf life. These can be either eaten instantly or with some cooking skills, they can be turned into a hot meal, enough for a man to keep himself nourished for a day or two. This food cannot be looted in the Inner City.
Level 21 - 30 Food
Pasta
Restores 8% Hunger Restores 24% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 30 Can be cooked by Chef Level 25+ Scrap Value: $ 140	Pasta, used in any sort of delicious Italian dish, was common in the rather large amount of Italian restaurants in Fairview city. After days of panicked survivors stripping many of foodstuffs and uncontrolled fires burning many into an unrecognizable crisp, they're rather rare nowadays. Even rarer are cooks that won't make a mess out of your chicken Alfredo.
Rice
Restores 10% Hunger Restores 30% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 30 Can be cooked by Chef Level 25+ Scrap Value: $ 140	Soon after the outpost was built and things were set, survivors realized that food with long shelf life, are the only things left to eat in quantity - and white rice lasts for a long time. Once it was derided as "peasant food" and used as filler, but now many realize that even a single bowl can supply enough energy to work for half a day, and hopefully enough to get back home. It is quite difficult to cook properly though, which therefore requires an experienced chef and his tools. Modified March 15, 2009 - Rice is now a Level 30 Nourishment food instead of Level 40. This food cannot be looted in the Inner City.
Tinned Tuna
Restores 12% Hunger Restores 36% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 30 Can be cooked by Chef Level 25+ Scrap Value: $ 140	One of the last few remaining fish type meals in Fairview. Yet also one of the most foul smelling of fish.
Potatoes
Restores 15% Hunger Restores 45% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 30 Can be cooked by Chef Level 25+ Scrap Value: $ 140	Potatoes, patatas, 'taters; it doesn't matter how you say it. This wholesome starchy crop is guaranteed to satisfy the hardened taste-buds of weary survivors, if you can find a decent enough chef to whip it into a filling meal. Often used instead of rice during food shortages, the potato fits well into this post-apocalyptic world. This food cannot be looted in the Inner City.
Level 31 - 40 Food
Tinned Vegetables
Restores 8% Hunger Restores 24% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 40 Can be cooked by Chef Level 35+ Scrap Value: $ 245	Better than frozen but not as good as fresh, these tinned vegetables are able to keep for a very long time. They provide the more robust survivors with their portion of greens for the day, even when they lack the money to pay for the fresher more organic produce.
Oats
Restores 10% Hunger Restores 30% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 40 Can be cooked by Chef Level 35+ Scrap Value: $ 245	Oats is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural, unlike other grains). While oats are suitable for human consumption as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed.
Tinned Salmon
Restores 12% Hunger Restores 36% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 40 Can be cooked by Chef Level 35+ Scrap Value: $ 245	Salmon, with a rich mix of important nutrients and protein, will surely address to the growling stomach of a common survivor.
Eggs
Restores 15% Hunger Restores 45% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 40 Can be cooked by Chef Level 35+ Scrap Value: $ 245	In the old world, it was widely believed that eating too many eggs would lead to numerous health problems and possibly death. Since most of the world is now dead regardless of that notion, few have any thoughts about partaking of this high energy food. Of course, the chance of finding unbroken eggs in the middle of a war zone, or coaxing some of these spheres out of the remaining chickens around Nastya's outpost, is laughable at best, but that just makes them all the more valuable. This food cannot be looted in the Inner City.
Level 41+ Food
Red Wine
Restores 25% Hunger Nutrition Level 50 Scrap Value: $ 505	If one is still able to own and drink this red elixir of happiness in this forsaken world, he or she is either very lucky, or damn rich, since these nice bottles are almost always kept within well protected locales. Most of these were either already used up or smashed during the first weeks of the Outbreak. A few former vineyard owners have been growing a few attempts at wine, and the only successful attempts will burn a hole in anyone's pocket.
Mixed Nuts
Restores 10% Hunger Restores 30% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 50 Can be cooked by Chef Level 45+ Scrap Value: $ 505	A pack of nuts, while formerly seen as unimportant snack during meals, now proves incredibly useful. Being a valuable source of energy and healthy oils along with a quite long shelf life, nuts are a rare treat to most survivors.
Caviar
Restores 12% Hunger Restores 36% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 50 Can be cooked by Chef Level 45+ Scrap Value: $ 505	Once a symbol of the ultra-rich, these delicacies now hold a rank amongst the most experienced survivors, being filled with enough fat, protein, and sodium to keep one on their feet for a while, not to mention its taste.
Fresh Vegetables
Restores 15% Hunger Restores 45% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 50 Can be cooked by Chef Level 45+ Scrap Value: $ 505	Many vegetables sold fresh without any sort of sealing, and crops fallen victim to disuse and trampling by rotting hordes, it's obvious they are quite rare. Other than finding them in the city, a few survivors with skill in agriculture have begun to coax them from the wasted lands that were once city parks. The result is a very valuable type of food, that requires nothing less than a master chef to prepare properly. This food cannot be looted in the Inner City.
Fresh Meat
Restores 20% Hunger Restores 60% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 50 Can be cooked by Chef Level 45+ Scrap Value: $ 505	Meat is by now perhaps the least common food anywhere, with what few cows remain being dairy or converted to pack mules. Meat is not able to be scavenged anywhere in the city, due to lack of proper preservation. Without power, all appliances, including refridgerators and freezers, began to shut down making them completely useless, and exposing precious meat to bacteria, mold, insects, and infected; thus the reason why grocery stores and neighborhood deli shops, while being common places for meat before the outbreak, haven't a strip of edible meat for the taking. The few well-preserved pieces of meat are whispered rumors around outpost inhabitants, usually dismissed as wishful thinking, but if you do have the luck to find one, make sure you preserve it well. This food cannot be looted in the Inner City.
Discontinued Food
Rotten Cabbage
Restores 15% Hunger Restores 45% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 10 Can be cooked by Chef Level 5+ Scrap Value: $ 15	This piece of cabbage was already gnawed on by all kinds of surviving vermin in this world, but as long as at least part of it is edible, it is worth quite a bit, like every piece of food in this forsaken world. But before attempting to eat this salad, never forget to cook it! Since almost anyone with a bit of cooking skill can heat up this rotten cabbage enough to make it more or less edible while not burning it, a proper chef shouldn't be hard to find.
Fruit Juice
Restores 30% Hunger Nutrition Level 20 Scrap Value: $ 45	This no-name fruit juice is even less nutritive than the common beer, but is able to satisfy vitamin-hungry survivors a lot better. Additionally, it still has kind of a sweet flavor.
Lemonade
Restores 30% Hunger Nutrition Level 20 Scrap Value: $ 45	Lemonade seems to have a life of its own, being so sour and all. But nevertheless, Lemonade is quite healthy and able to satiate most survivors for a while.
Pork Rinds
Restores 30% Hunger Nutrition Level 20 Scrap Value: $ 45	Packaged thoroughly, pork rinds are a common treat for those who have only eaten crisps in the last few days. While eating this, many survivors can finally revive memories of the taste of real, tasty meat.
French Fries
Restores 15% Hunger Restores 45% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 20 Can be cooked by Chef Level 15+ Scrap Value: $ 45	French Fries are another kind of junk food, that was as popular among the public before the outbreak, as they are now among the remaining survivors. Its carbohydrates are a useful source of energy, and when properly fried and seasoned they can soften even the hardest palate.
Pizza
Restores 15% Hunger Restores 45% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 20 Can be cooked by Chef Level 15+ Scrap Value: $ 45	Pizza, many people's favorite food before the outbreak, can still be found in many places in the city, because of exactly that reason, it's popularity. But the only types of pizza, which are still edible after these years are the frozen ones. These still taste well and nourish a good bit, the one thing needed though, are either good cooking skills or a hired chef, to properly defrost and cook them.
Orange Juice
Restores 30% Hunger Nutrition Level 30 Scrap Value: $ 140	Orange Juice is expensive and has a very good and healthy taste, but is somewhat rare to find on the market, due to its quite high demand within the ranks of experienced zombie hunters.
Frozen Vegetables
Restores 20% Hunger Restores 60% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 30 Can be cooked by Chef Level 25+ Scrap Value: $ 140	Previously unpopular vegetables are now in great demand within the many vitamin-starving survivors. Fresh greens are becoming quite rare, due to more and more survivors becoming health conscious and preferring them, rather than the still-so-common junk food.
Beef Burgers
Restores 40% Hunger Restores 120% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 30 Can be cooked by Chef Level 25+ Scrap Value: $ 140	These are a rare treat in the ruins of society: real, uninfected and tasty pieces of meat. But because they are a good source of protein (and obviously, very tasty), most has already gone bad, scavenged, or eaten by ravenous rotters. What can be still found intact and edible is prized and enjoyed, or sold high and fast. The delicious smell that wafts through the outpost when these are masterfully grilled however, can draw much resentment from fellow survivors.
Cheese
Restores 30% Hunger Nutrition Level 40 Scrap Value: $ 245	Cheese, like all milk based products, is rare, but then again it's a healthy and quite tasty kind of food, with a moderate shelf life. Once used mainly as a tasty addition to meat and other meals, it has found popular use in supplying many hungry survivors with protein.
Milk
Restores 30% Hunger Nutrition Level 40 Scrap Value: $ 245	Milk is rare, and rightfully so, because it is able to refresh even several of the most experienced survivors. This healthy (if kept cooled) substance will satiate most people really well.
Cherry Pie
Restores 30% Hunger Restores 90% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 40 Can be cooked by Chef Level 35+ Scrap Value: $ 245	Cherry Pie is another rare treat, a blend of sugar and fruit in a baked crust. Such food brings back memories of a time when people weren't gnawing on each other constantly, and the factories and markets ran smooth. The rarity of the ingredients - especially the cherries - drive prices of even the most sloppily cooked pie through the roof.
Sausages
Restores 40% Hunger Restores 120% Hunger if cooked Nutrition Level 40 Can be cooked by Chef Level 35+ Scrap Value: $ 245	The three most important things a survivor needs to stay healthy and strong are protein, vitamins and sugar. Pork or beef sausages fulfill the rarely satisfied protein needs for the day, being eaten plain or with bread. Sausages are a typical food which should be cooked before enjoying the rare meat, although its just as edible as long as they are untouched by infected.