My general welcome spiel is: especially when new, don't bother with cooking complex recipes in the cooking pot. There are no complex recipes at any tier that will net you more stamina-per-cooking slot (or per cooking time) than just raw fish and meat. :/
As I always say: if the complex recipes gave you more than one item per creation, they would be worthwhile! But they don't, so they are not; the "best" feast, stamina-to-slot-wise, the nut feast, you can only cook 4 of with a completely unlocked pot. Which will give you 4 items that give 80 stamina each. Or you can slap in 24 fish, get 24 items worth 20 stamina each, and have a lot more flexibility what wolves you can choose to feed.
That being said; also check your auto-feed settings (accessible on your den page) and make sure to remove any item you don't want your wolves automatically consuming. What I personally do is turn everything off and only manually feed wolves, but I also don't grind full time in Campaign until the quarterly pack holidays (you just missed one, the next is in Jan) except with 1 single wolf and their companion, so I don't need to keep a team fed. When that holiday comes around, I will set some fish, meat and some lower-tier foods to fill in for sub-20 amounts of stamina needed to auto-feed and then turn them off again when the holiday is over.
Farming is basically a waste of time until you can farm nuts and carrots, but if you find the mobile-game like timers fun, you might enjoy it anyway! Which is fine, Lorwolf is very much a game where you HAVE to find your own fun if you want to enjoy it longer than a few weeks. Updates are sparse and the Devs are not interested in talking to us. :) For many people this is breeding projects and completing achievements, for others it's designing Custom Apparel (known as CA).
The other useful thing is to do with companions; there are companions that will give you pebbles every hour when you play with them. If you pair 2 of these with 1 of the frog companions (basidios), you can play with Nana and not lose money while also leveling some of your wolves up. This can be useful early on when Stamina is your pinch point, and it will remain useful later because this is how you farm Knucklebone Tokens (KBs)-- you can sell these to other players on the Flea Market for moonstones, the premium currency.
The KBs are used to generate random generation 1 wolves known as Wild Wolves through the Hunt mechanic (level 1 hunt, guaranteed victory, costs some pebbles and 50KBs), and some people really love playing the lottery for them. Whether you save up tokens to use on a hunt yourself or just sell 'em to the gacha game addicts is up to you, lol. I typically save mine for special holidays when I'm in the mood.
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