I had a cool thought while playing the other day, what if you allowed for more bugs to be cooked/dried and eaten and with that having different bugs give you different short bursts of skill improvements. Or even making smoothie recipes with these types of other bug ingredients and abilities. For example, If you consume spider chunk (or a smoothie containing spider chunk) then immediately after consuming it your character moves quicker for the first half or quarter of the day.
What brought me to this is that I have gotten pretty far and confident in this game and have a large surplus of spider chunks and Bombardier Parts now and not much to do with them.
Just a thought. LOVING the game!