With not starving in Don’t Starve Together such a prevalent theme that it’s in the name of the game, you’ll do well to find the most efficient ways to use your limited ingredients. You’ll need to be a bit creative in your Don’t Starve Together recipes, but imagination is the best friend of a chef – and group of friends in a digital world that’s trying endlessly to kill them.

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Getting a Crock Pot is a game-changer in that regard, allowing you to combine ingredients in a meaningful way. We’ve got some of Don’t Starve Together’s best recipes for you below.

Updated on June 2, 2023 by Gabrielle Castania: With the recent Taking Root update for Don’t Starve Together, players are once again trying to find the best ways to stave off their hunger in this imposing survival sim. We’ve come back to our list of Don’t Starve Together’s best recipes to keep you fuller, longer.

15 Meaty Stew

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How To Make Meaty Stew

Recipes

Four Meats (Monster or Animal)

Three Meats and one Red Cap

Three Meats and one Egg

Meaty Stew is a very easy way to regain a whopping 150 Hunger in a single meal, which is easily enough to fill you up for an entire day. The dish keeps for ten days, but even if it goes stale before you get to eat, stale Meaty Stew still provides 100 Hunger, more than even some fresh dishes in our list.

We've put it this low on the list because you're got to truly be starving to eat something that yields 150 Hunger - most characters don't even have that Hunger capacity. It's a hearty dish, but it almost feels like a waste unless you're strong or desperate.

14 Kabobs

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How To Make Kabobs

Recipe

Two Meat and two Twigs

Kabobs are an extremely simple dish, requiring only two ingredients - Meat and Twigs (be careful with your meat choice, though, as Wet Goop or Fishsticks are on the menu instead with the slightest variation). And for such a simple dish, they pack a punch with 37.5 Hunger per serving.

But with so many good uses for Meat, this dish is great if you've got an over-abundance of it, but otherwise, you may be better off saving your Meats for, well, meatier dishes.

13 Honey Ham

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How To Make Honey Ham

Recipes

One Monster Meat, two Small Morsels, and one Honey

One Monster Meat, one Large Morsel, and two Honey

If you've settled your camp near a decent source of Meats (like with Rabbits or Pigs nearby), you'll have Morsels aplenty before long, and Honey Ham is a great way to spice things up when you're growing tired of Meaty Stews and Kabobs. Not only does this dish yield 75 Hunger, but it also refills 30 Health as well.

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We just hope you have a good source of Honey nearby, which isn't always the easiest resource to find. Still, it lasts 15 days once prepared, so you'll have time to scrounge up some more before making your next batch.

12 Trail Mix

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How To Make Trail Mix

Recipe

One Roasted Birchnut, two Berries, and one Twig

The ingredients listed above are some of the most plentiful in the early game, and not only that, but to make Trail Mix, you won't need anything other than an Axe outside of your Crockpot to whip up a snack that refills 30 Health and keeps in your inventory for 15 days before spoiling.

Unfortunately, it doesn't recover a whole lot of Hunger, refilling just 12.5 Hunger per portion. Still, if you're more hurt than hungry, Trail Mix is a quick pick-me-up.

11 Melonsicle

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How To Make Melonsicles

Recipe

One Watermelon, one Ice, and two Twigs

Like Popsicles in real life, Melonsicles in Don't Starve Together are a cool, refreshing treat. They're more of a snack, filling only 12.5 Hunger, but each one also restores 20 Sanity, which is notedly hardly to refill once depleted. On top of that, since it's a frozen food, it provides a cooling effect when consumed.

Just don't consume it during the Winter, because that cooling effect happens year-round. And when the environment is already doing its best to make you freeze from the outside, you won't want to speed up the process cooling off your insides, too.

10 Ice Cream

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How To Make Ice Cream

Recipe

One of any Dairy Product, one Ice, and two Sweeteners

Reign of Giants was the first expansion for Don't Starve Together, and it introduced plenty of wonderful things - one of them being the opportunity to make Ice Cream. And because we all love a nice, cold treat, this bowl of Summer sweetness refills 25 Hunger and a much more impressive 50 Sanity.

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But, like its cousins in the frozen foods section, Ice Cream will cool you off - wonderful for Summer, terrible for Winter unless you're at base camp by the fire.

9 Meatballs

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How To Make Meatballs

Recipes

One Meat (any size Morsel) and three Berries

One Meat (any kind) and three Eggs

One Meat (any kind) and three Red Caps

There's maybe no Don't Starve Together recipe as truly versatile as Meatballs, because as long as you have some kind of Meat (even Monster Meat works if you're careful with it!), you're good to go with Meatballs. If your dish has a Morsel of some kind, unless you're following another recipe, you'll likely end up with Meatballs.

But that's not a bad thing, especially when ingredients are scarce. It's usage is pretty singular, though - it refills 62.5 Hunger, but measly amounts of Sanity and Health.

8 Taffy

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How To Make Taffy

Recipes

One Twig, two Honey, and one Milk

Four Honey

If you've got a reliable means to keep Honey production flowing at your base camp, Taffy is a wonderful way to use some of it up. Each piece refills 25 Hunger and a cool 15 Sanity - we're getting the feeling that Klei knows people like sweets.

But, there are a few cavities - we mean, caveats - to this otherwise-flawless food. Not only can Honey be tricky to source reliably, but you also lose 3 Health per serving. Too much of this good thing, if you're not careful, really can be too much.

7 DragonPie

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How To Make DragonPie

Recipe

One Dragon Fruit and three Twigs

A staple food for combat-centric players, DragonPie is one hefty dish, packing the punch of restoring 75 Hunger and 40 Health per serving. It can be pretty tricky to make, but it's rivaled by few in terms of restorative properties, and at a 15-day spoil time, you'll be able to make several at a time to keep full.

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That said, Dragon Fruit is hard to source. You have a five percent chance to get them from planting normal seeds, so growing them often enough to make several of this delightful dish may prove challenging.

6 Fishsticks

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How To Make Fishsticks

Recipes

One Monster Meat, one Large Morsel, one Fish, and one Twig

Two Honey, one Fish, and one Twig

Two Ice, one Fish, and one Twig

Fishsticks are another of the more versatile dishes in the Don't Starve Together recipe book, but they make for a great way to use Fish and other small ingredients pretty efficiently, meaning you can make the most if you've only got a little. Whip up a batch of Fishsticks to restore 37.5 Hunger and 40 Health in an instant.

Just, eat them in an instant, too - you've only got ten days until they spoil. That said, they are a good way to get rid of excess Monster Meat - we ask not what's in our frozen meats sometimes...

5 Guacamole

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How To Make Guacamole

Recipe

One Moleworm, one Cactus Flesh, and two Twigs

While this dish needs to be made to the recipe, it's not exactly a bad thing (Twigs are filler items, if ever we've seen them). Moleworms and Cactus can be found in the desert, which may be challening unless you're settled nearby, but you can transplant them back to base when you find them for a fairly solid supply.

This dish replenished 37.5 Hunger per serving, along with 20 Health. Additionally, you can whip it up pretty fast - each portion only takes ten seconds to cook in the Crock Pot.

4 Butter Muffin

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How To Make Butter Muffin

Recipes

One Butterfly Wings, one Carrot, and two Twigs

One Butterfly Wings, one Red Cap, and two Twigs

One Butterfly Wings, one Cactus Flesh, and two Twigs

Rip out the wings of these butterflies and get to cooking, because this relatively simply meal requires few ingredients for a pretty decent payout. Twigs make for excellent filler, meaning the stars of the show are the Butterfly Wings and whatever lesser vegetable you use with it. Save your big veggies for bigger dishes, but Butter Muffins are a great way to use up the smaller stuff in a meaningful way.

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Each Butter Muffin restores 37.5 Hunger and 20 Health, which is pretty impressive, when you consider that half the recipe is literally just sticks.

3 Wobster Dinner

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One Wobster, one Butter, and two Filler Items

It's hard to think fancy when you're scrounging for scraps to stave off starvation, but if you've got good access to Butter (which is rare, but worth it if you can), Wobster Dinner is a great way to use it. Each stat is replenished by this elaborate meal, refilling 37.5 Hunger, 60 Health, and 50 Sanity.

We guess, when you've adjusted to eating raw Berries and Jerky for a while, a fancy meal might do that to you. And if you're playing as Maxwell, this is his favorite dish, which means he'll get 52.5 Hunger from it just for loving the taste.

2 Bacon And Eggs

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One Small Morsel, one Monster Meat, and two Eggs

Two Monster Meat, one Tallbird Egg, and oen Twig

In real life, we would probably skip eating a portion of Bacon and Eggs that's been in someone's backpack for 20 days, but we'd encourage you to do it in Don't Starve Together. It's a filling food, replenishing 75 Hunger and 20 Health per serving (unless you're Wilson, who earns 90 Hunger, as this is his favorite dish).

It's even a good way to use up Monster Meat in a way that's safe to consume, if you've got a Tallbird Egg on hand. Even if not, this Don't Starve Together recipe is easy, and your breakfast benefits are numerous.

1 Turkey Dinner

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Recipes

Two Drumsticks, one Monster Meat, and one Berries

Three Drumsticks and one Berries

Three Drumsticks and one Cactus Flesh

Can we list getting to kill an ever-annoying Gobbler as a pro of this dish? It almost feels like one, especially since it's typ[cally made with the very Berries those Gobblers were trying to gobble. But, that's a good thing - if you find a Gobbler eating Berries and kill it before it can, you have one-stop shopping for dinner tonight.

This heavy meal will fill 75 Hunger (except for Wigfrid, who gets a bonus 15 Hunger for this being her favorite), and 20 Health as well. It spoils quickly with a six-day spoil time, so eat up fast and enjoy your full belly.

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