I'm feeling like I'll mostly get the answer "spam-cook meat and fish all day", but what are your personal cooking and feeding methods? For me, I find cooking complex recipes the most fun, even if it's incredibly inefficient at times. I don't even usually feed them to my wolves, aside from the nigiri recipes (trying to unlock Open Ocean for that kelp still :'D).
I keep nigiri & the simple recipes for fish & meat on auto-feed and pretty much nothing else. I do however use corn for the hunting food requirements, since I have lots of it from farming so much when I first started (I really wouldn't farm anything else LOL). For manual feeding if I feel I need to do it I just use Moonwater or moths. Think I have so many moths because I always go for the third sword areas during the seasonal events, and the Moonwater comes mostly from Goldsea since I used to campaign there for the cooking drops lol.
My methods are probably quite different from most people's I'd have to assume, as I don't really campaign a lot and besides the things I'm grinding at the time & cooking, I don't do the other professions much besides for activities. Cooking & farming don't even take stamina so I'm mostly using my food for Gauntlet lol.
Hope you enjoyed my ramble on food. I tend to gravitate towards cooking in games in general, so it's no surprise to me I love it here too! And let me know what you guys do!
As a side note, anyone else wondering why Maki costs way more ingredients/points than Nigiri but gives the same amount of stamina? I know the recipes can be poorly balanced at times, but that one is just strange lol. It's one of the recipes I don't even make at all because Nigiri is so much better and I use it for feeding, and I'm a person who makes any recipe I feel like just for fun :'D