7 Days to Die Food & Drink

Best food in 7 Days to Die

Ranked by Food restored per item — the value the game adds to your Food meter (shown on the item as “Food”). Health arrives over time; Max Stamina is a temporary bonus.

#	Item	Food	Health	Max stamina	Water	Get it
1	Honey Brisket	141	70	+40	—	Food skill 80
2	Spaghetti	122	61	+40	—	Food skill 90
3	Gumbo Stew	112	56	+40	20	Food skill 100
4	Shepherd's Pie	104	52	+40	—	Food skill 70
5	Chicken Wings	98	49	+20	—	Food skill 90
6	Honey Glazed Sham	98	49	+30	—	Food skill 59
7	Tuna Fish Gravy Toast	90	45	+40	—	Food skill 60
8	Ash Chicken Stew	75	37	+20	20	Food skill 26
9	Hobo Stew	64	32	+30	20	Food skill 35
10	Sham Chowder	53	80	+30	10	Food skill 59
11	Chili Dog	53	30	+30	—	Food skill 51
12	Meat Stew	50	25	+20	20	Food skill 22
13	Pumpkin Pie	50	25	+20	—	Food skill 14
14	Steak and Potato Meal	50	25	+20	—	Food skill 26
15	Fish Tacos	46	40	+30	—	Food skill 43
16	Blueberry Pie	45	22	+20	—	Food skill 11
17	Pumpkin Cheesecake	42	21	+20	—	Food skill 18
18	Bacon and Eggs	36	18	+10	—	Food skill 10
19	Vegetable Stew	31	15	+20	20	Food skill 22
20	Roadrunner Chicken Jerky	30	15	+15	—	Food skill 18

Top 20 of 62 items that restore Food.

How to get water in 7 Days to Die

1. Get an Empty Water Jar — 62 kinds of container can hold one, traders sell them, and the Forge makes them. 15 of the 16 drinks are set to hand the jar back when you finish them (the world's jar-refund setting has the final say).
2. Use the jar on any water source to fill it with Murky Water: 10 Water, 5 Health lost and a 12% dysentery risk per drink.
3. Boil it: Campfire with a Cooking Pot turns 1 Murky Water into 1 Water (20 Water, no risk). The recipe is known from the start.
4. Or let a Dew Collector fill jars for you: 1 empty jar → Murky Water every 6–10 game hours, Water once a Water Filter is fitted (9 output slots). Its three mods are on the farming page.

Drinks that restore Water

Drink	Water	Extra	Get it
Yucca Juice Smoothie	78	Yucca Juice Smoothie · 22 Food	Food skill 27
Mega Crush	60	Mega Crush!	Loot · traders
Pure Mineral Water	60	Efficient Digestion · 20% dysentery cure	Wasteland Treasures Vol 4
Yucca Juice	34	—	Food skill 8
Honey Tea	24	20% dysentery cure · 5% infection cure · 8 Food	Food skill 14
Blackstrap Coffee	24	Blackstrap Coffee	Art of Mining Vol 4
Coffee	24	Coffee	Food skill 10
Goldenrod Tea	24	20% dysentery cure	Food skill 4
Red Tea	24	Efficient Digestion	Food skill 6
Water	20	—	Known recipe
Murky Water	10	12% dysentery risk	Loot

Cooking: recipes, stations and the Food skill

Food recipes unlock on the Food crafting skill, which rises by reading Home Cooking Weekly magazines. Here is every recipe it unlocks, by skill level:

Level	Unlocks
2	Grilled Corn · Baked Potato
4	Corn Bread · Goldenrod Tea
6	Grilled Meat · Red Tea
8	Boiled Meat · Yucca Juice
10	Bacon and Eggs · Coffee
11	Chicken Nuggets · Blueberry Pie · Pumpkin Bread
14	Pumpkin Pie · Honey Tea
18	Roadrunner Chicken Jerky · Pumpkin Cheesecake
22	Meat Stew · Vegetable Stew
26	Ash Chicken Stew · Steak and Potato Meal
27	Yucca Juice Smoothie · Beer
35	Hobo Stew
43	Fish Tacos
51	Chili Dog
59	Honey Glazed Sham · Sham Chowder
60	Tuna Fish Gravy Toast · Grandpa's Awesome Sauce
70	Shepherd's Pie · Grandpa's Moonshine
80	Honey Brisket · Grandpa's Learnin' Elixir
90	Chicken Wings · Spaghetti
100	Gumbo Stew

Uncooked food and dirty water can make you sick: Old Sham Sandwich, Raw Meat, Rotting Flesh and Murky Water each carry a dysentery risk. What dysentery does and what cures it.

All food and drink

Canned food is loot and trader stock only — the cans differ by a few points, so they are listed here rather than on pages of their own.