I have a few tips for people that are commenting on having to carry so much food, make yourself a lunchbox, 6 iron ingots and it carries 6 types of food but only 2 of each. You can right click on it to eat it and it automatically selects the best food inside and feeds you that. It makes managing food so much easier. Also I recommend the slimy apple, monster jerky (the one cooked in the frypan) and apple sandwiches, they are all easy to make and fill you full of food and saturation with one item.
Another top tip is for a cheap and easy cobble gen... this will probably get nerfed in the next version now, but worth telling everyone as its such a handy little gizmo. The Striped pipe in buildcraft. If powered by a redstone engine it will pick up the block in front of it, so just point it at your usual cobble gen and you are away, pipe it into the compacting drawers and it can store incredible amounts of cobble as it auto-compresses up to double compressed for you.
I have enjoyed this pack a lot but its mostly the early game that's fun. The HQM seems to lead you quite well through the early game then suddenly there is this mammoth wall of progress that must overcome on your own to make the ingredients for the galgadorian metal. Then once you have that, it doesn't really help as you need 7 printed circuits just to make the 2nd machine, along with a bunch more galgadorian metal... I gave up at this point as progress was too slow. Grinding for grinding's sake isn't much fun. It seems a real shame as there is clearly so much more content to enjoy once you get to the galacticraft and other planets but I don't see myself crafting 100 galgadorian metal to get there, sorry.