I'm usually a bread eater, because it's easy to just craft up a stack of it. with the odd meat item thrown in whenever i have a full stack of it. the thing is, that with the vanilla hunger mechanic. a single stack of roasted chicken will go a loong way. in fact, I usually run out of feathers before i run out of chicken meat. it's the same with leather/steak, So i have a policy of not breeding any more animals than i need, then eating the meats and filling the rest with whatever i fancy growing in my small garden area. late game I often end up ignoring the whole garden. too much easy meat to eat.
This is actually one of the more anoying things with modded minecraft. vanilla hunger just can't keep up with consuming the plethora of easy food in these packs.
On my current world otoh. with hunger overhaul.. well... food is suddenly a real issue, and making higher quality meals have become somewhat a priority. altho you can make by with just using a bigger farm, however with the ability to make carrot, apple and other types of pie, that has become my main goto. surplus apples from the tree farm?. apple pie time. the carrot pile growing big? time for a stack of carrot pies. all the surplus food that I cannot eat, is turned into dirt. It is Agrarian skies after all. I've never been happier for it. I hate it when all the needs are just automatically met. it turns the game from survival into creative with monsters, and where is the real fun in that?