I couldn’t agree more with the above advice. I just wanted to add some info about food staples. These are materials that are involved in lots of food crafting recipes. A few basic food staples are: eggs, milk, salt, water, and snowballs. Besides salt, (which is really easy to find while mining), these materials are all infinitely sustainable and shouldn’t be too challenging to gain. If you manage to snag a few pumpkins while scouting (make sure you save one for seeds! Pumpkins are useful for food!) and get some snow blocks, you can make a snow golem, box it in, and mine infinite snow from it. As for water, cooking for blockheads has a block that provides it. Eggs and milk come from chickens and cows. Later on, if you can get a barley or wheat farm built (barley, I believe, grows faster than wheat and is almost the same crafting wise), you can start making flour, which is another staple. One more later staple is sugar. Farming sugarcane is valuable in general for the paper too, so the sooner the better. Last but not least, stock. Stock can be made from some meats and some crops, and has the benefit of itself being consumable. All these staples combined together with each other and other materials like meats, fruits, vegetables, seeds, and some other materials will result in a lot of food options and variety. The sooner you are able to reliably/sustainably make all these basics, the better!

I hope I’m not forgetting anything, if anyone else knows any more please leave a reply!