In addition to drinks and porridge, the main character eats insect meat, nuts, roots, mushrooms and vegetables, some roasted and some raw.

Cooking is also a process of continuous progress in history, primitive people mastered the fire, only to learn cooked food, at the beginning of the main simple grilled food, variants are like called flower chicken buried under the fire to cook.

After the invention of pottery, human beings can cook food, and some ethnic groups do not have pottery, so they use cow stomach as a container to cook food, but such containers are very easy to damage.

After the development of pottery to a certain extent in China, or the invention of bronze ware, steaming utensils such as retorts began to appear, which could be used to steam food, and the West did not master similar techniques until much later. Therefore, the staple foods of China - steamed buns, steamed buns, etc., while the staple foods of the West - bread, biscuits, etc. - are baked (that is, baked).

As for the cooking method of stir-frying, it appeared even later, and it did not appear until the iron pot and grease became very popular.

Many representative dishes of modern China's major cuisines, including street food, have a history of no more than hundreds of years, and even many of them appeared after the Republic of China, and the diet of ancient commoners and aristocrats has been relatively monotonous for a long time.

The protagonist now wants to expand his own variety of dishes, but the problem is that the level of science and technology cannot keep up, he can only use natural or primitive artificial cooking utensils, and the ability to cook food with pottery is a lot of progress, so the side dishes can only be processed raw or roasted and boiled.

Worm meat can be made into barbecued meat, or it can be combined into porridge to cook a pot of meat porridge. The protagonist mainly eats mealworm meat, and he refuses to eat the more delicate maggot meat preferred by other kings and queens, after all, the fixed human impression of flies and their larvae is that they are dirty.

And mealworms, humans often eat them, like fitness people like to eat protein powder, and many brands of raw materials contain high-protein mealworms.

After overcoming this psychological barrier, the protagonist accepts the worm meat, which tastes good, although the muscle fibers are slightly harder, like a bit of old beef or rough fiber horse meat.

The protagonist prefers the fat part of the worm meat to the muscle, and the mealworm does not have much fat, but whether it is grilled on the muscles or put a little oil in the porridge, it tastes extremely beautiful. It may also be that the protagonist's current pursuit of high calories has changed his taste, and he has no preference for other oily foods except cream and chocolate during human life.

In addition to fresh worm meat, the protagonist also likes to eat cured and smoked meats with unique flavors, both of which are also made from mealworm meat.

Ants also have the habit of eating dried meat, and they will leave the meat that they can't eat for a while to be exposed to the sun and dehydrated, so as to preserve it for a longer time.

But the cured and smoked meats of the main character are special. Considering that the ants are not very good at cutting tools, only some simple gravel or pottery knives, these cured or bacon are cut into slices and then made, so that the finished product is not too hard to process.

After the fresh meat is sliced, it is dehydrated and marinated in coarse salt, and then exposed to the sun. And the smoke produced by burning on the fire, after being smoked dry, is bacon.

These two foods are considered unhealthy in the human world, but they still conquer the hearts and minds of many people with their unique flavors. The protagonist is also very fond of both foods, and the flavor of the food always reminds him of the past. These two types of food are occasionally given to other ants as delicacies.

Compared with the jerky commonly made by ants, cured meat and bacon can be stored for a longer period of time, and can be stored for half a year in a dry storage room underground. Depending on the degree of drying, the dried meat of ants can be stored for a week to a month at most.

Therefore, every year before winter, when a large number of mealworms need to be slaughtered due to insufficient feed, the protagonists will ask the ants to make a large amount of meat into bacon to extend the shelf life. After all, cured meat consumes a lot of salt, and the protagonist has not yet mastered high-quality and high-yield salt resources.

"Qingqiu City" once agreed with the protagonist to control "Salt City", but the protagonist found that the saline land there relies on natural crystallization, and although the yield of salt is enough to meet the demand, the purity is not high, and it contains many other saline components. Out of concern for health, the protagonist still tries to reduce the intake of this coarse salt as much as possible.

In terms of side dishes, in addition to mealworm meat, the protagonist will also eat some worm eggs, which are eaten in a boiled way like boiled eggs, which is very supplemental.

The rest is a variety of roots, plant stems and leaves, fungi and other vegetarian food, many plant stems and leaves can be eaten raw, just like salads.

However, the roots and mushrooms are still mainly roasted or boiled, and the roots commonly eaten by ants are not large enough to be used as food by humans, but there are starch-rich roots like potatoes or carrots, some are spicy and water-rich like turnips, and there are also high sugar content like sugar beets, which greatly enrich the protagonist's recipe.

There are also many kinds of mushrooms, and ants have their own set of ways to distinguish edible mushrooms, mainly by trial and error, and then remember and avoid those poisonous mushrooms. These mushrooms are naturally delicious and are the main natural umami agents in the case of scarcity of seasonings. For example, when the mushrooms are roasted with fat, the fat that flows down coats the crispy and golden mushrooms that are roasted, and the flavor is really unforgettable.

When it comes to seasonings, ants don't eat other condiments except salt, but the protagonists are different, and most of the cooking art of human beings relies on various seasonings, from oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the East, to basil, cinnamon, rosemary in Western food, as well as curries in Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Ants do not have the custom of using condiments, and when they have a long collection experience, they know which plants have an unpalatable "odor".

The protagonist wants the "peculiar smell" that these ants want, including spicy and various strange aromas, so there are special worker ants responsible for collecting these natural spices for the Divine Messenger King to enrich the taste level of the protagonist's food. It's just that many of these condiments are hard to come by, and they can't maintain a stable supply, so they can only be eaten once.

There are also fruits, which are naturally inseparable from the protagonists with human souls, and ants also eat fruits, but they generally eat a full meal at the fruits that have landed, and do not bring these perishable foods back to the nest.

It is impossible for the protagonist to go out into the wild to find fruit on their own, so the worker ants will bring back a small amount of fruit of the right size and weight for the protagonist to enjoy. For example, nightshade fruit, firethorn fruit, various wild berries or lingonberry fruits, etc.