1. Have the cook use ingredients that are due to expiry first.
2. Limit the cook to use ingredients that are within a certain definable radius of the stove.
The Corn harvest has just come in and my freezer is full, but it is alright because the Corn will last 60 days in a regular room like the kitchen. However, I still have a few stacks of Berries and Rice lying around, but never being used because I've got a stack of Corn closer to the stove which takes priority. If my cook could simply choose the ingredients with the earliest 'best before date' that would be great, provided he didn't go stomping half way across the map to pick up a crate of berries that got left behind.
2. Limit the cook to use ingredients that are within a certain definable radius of the stove.
The Corn harvest has just come in and my freezer is full, but it is alright because the Corn will last 60 days in a regular room like the kitchen. However, I still have a few stacks of Berries and Rice lying around, but never being used because I've got a stack of Corn closer to the stove which takes priority. If my cook could simply choose the ingredients with the earliest 'best before date' that would be great, provided he didn't go stomping half way across the map to pick up a crate of berries that got left behind.