For squid and lightning seeds, I just worked on getting 3+ stacks of each in one go. That's 64 circuit boards worth, enough to make pretty much all the things (short of AE). For squid seeds, I laid out a line of water source blocks 16 blocks worth and just planted them as I side strafed and then bone meal-ed them all. Also put some walls around one side of the water so that the squid seeds don't bounce out the other side while planting. Do this a few times and you get several stacks in about 5-10 minutes. Lightning seeds are easier cause you can just make a big plot of dirt/grass and mass produce them in a short amount of time.
As far as SoL, I prefer Supreme Pizzas since you don't have to smelt any ingredients. I tend to stay away from foods that require smelting or use of water in the early game, and then in the later game, stay way from smelting food recipes. For supreme pizzas, you can setup a cyclic assembler to mass produce fresh water and a rancher to mass produce fresh milk from cows. Then it's just spam bonemeal on tomatoes, rice, bellpeppers, onions, spice leaf, and soybeans. Then later on once you have an auto-spawner and a safari net with a pig, you can mass produce porkchops and stop using soybeans/tofu.
In normal map packs, I just go with Delighted Meals since water and auto-smelting/auto-crafting are not hard to setup.
