While looking over my cooking options, I realized that cooking pumpkin pie doesn't make a lot of sense. Pumpkin pie only restores 60 energy, meaning that its ingredients combined are worth the same amount of energy together (Flour x2 = 10, Cooked eggs x2 = 40, Pumpkin = 5, Oil = 5, for a total of 60 points). As it stands, it's currently more efficient to just cook the eggs and eat the other ingredients raw.

Given that pumpkin pie is a higher level recipe, I feel like it should restore more energy to actually make it worth crafting outside of as a gift for Bigs and Tiny. Not sure if this applies to any other recipes, but wanted to point it out!

Edit: The same applies to Crunchy Rainbow Bug Soup, which also gives 60 energy. Cooked Emperor Steak x1 = 20, Cooked Imperial Steak x1 = 20, Spring Folium Limbs x2 = 10, Autumn Folium Limbs x2 =10, for a total of 60 points.

The real purpose for both Pumpkin Pie and Crunchy Rainbow Bug Soup is feeding to the Farming NPC to get them to tend your crops for you for 12 hours. Given that, I don't think it's really necessary for them to be particularly efficient food-wise – in fact, I'd rather they just weren't consumable food at all so that I stop accidentally feeding them to my wolves.

(@Alestrius, there's a button on your main Den page that lets you choose what gets auto-fed or not; it's down at the bottom on desktop and a little hidden so easily missed, but it exists!)

I'm rather ambivalent to the suggestion as a whole because both of you made good points, just wanted to point out that there is a way to keep your wolves from eating things they shouldn't.

@Renaiwom Unfortunately my issue is a pebcak one with manual feeding where they often sit next to the Moths and sometimes I just misclick. :p Human error, but quite annoying whenever it happens.