Food in Ultima VII

In Ultima VII and Serpent Isle, eating is essential for keeping your party at full strength. However, each food item has a different feeding value. The food status of a party member is indicated on a hidden 31 point scale, with 31 being full and 0 being starving to death. In this table, the point values of the various food items (i.e., how much of the bar they refill) is shown.

The Food Table

Feeding Value	Food Items
+31	Green cheese
24	Mutton Ribs Chicken Ham
16	Beef Deer meat
12	Sausage
9	Cheese wheel
8	Flounder Potatoes
6	Fish n' chips
5	Fruit cake
4	Bread Trout Pumpkin
3	Cake Banana Egg
2	Apple Cheese wedge Carrots Rolls Garlic
1	Drinks Grapes Leeks
0	Silverleaf Alcohol in general

Conclusions

The table tells us that all kinds of meat and cheese are very filling. Fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, are not, and drinks have no nutritional or restorative value, just like silverleaf which is much more expensive (30gp in Trinsic). The Everlasting Goblet in Serpent Isle acts as an infinite food source, but has a very low feeding value. Using the spell Create Food with the Ring of Reagents (which eliminates the need for reagents) is more time-efficient.

Attaining Food in the Wild

Buying food also can be expensive. Thus here the various animals that can be killed and what they net in terms of food. These sources are also renewable.

Animal	Food Gained	Notes
Cow	5 Beef	In Britannia, the slaughterhouse in Paws and the stables in Britain are the best place to find cows. On the Serpent Isle the best resources are the Inn of the Sleeping Bull and Vasculio’s walled-up grazing grounds near Monitor return value.
Rabbit	1 beef
Deer	5 deer meat
Sheep	1 Mutton	In Britannia, the slaughterhouse in Paws and New Magincia are the best place to find sheep. On the Serpent Isle the best resources are the Inn of the Sleeping Bull and Vasculio's walled-up grazing grounds near Monitor.
Horse	1 Ribs	In Britannia, the stables of Britain are the best place to find horses. On the Serpent Isle, horses are unavailable.
Chicken	1 Chicken	The best sources are Mack’s farm in Britannia and Inn of the Sleeping Bull on Serpent Isle.
Gremlin	All kind of foods	Gremlins can drop anything, from lowly grapes up to very filling green cheese, but randomly.
Fish	1 Trout	A fishing pole is needed in order to catch them. The game however needs to be patched first.
Boar	2 Ham	Serpent Isle only, especially plentiful in the Northern Forest.

Trivia

• Amusingly, eating other people's food – not stealing it, eating it directly – is treated like a major crime and will almost always make the companions leave and conjure the guards. Simply stealing it has little to no consequences, however. The same rules also apply to potions.
• The feeding mechanic of both parts of Ultima VII became the stuff of video game legends due to the sheer amount of time the player spends with it and the companions not eating on their own. It spawned many parodies making fun of said game mechanic in various ways.^{[Citation needed]}