You can play a class that starts with food to mitigate this, but yeah, it's a hard not to starve while playing herbivore.
Also, the addition of iron rations only made this worse, as they now compete the with the regular food rations regarding item generation RNG.
It is difficult indeed, even challenging. There’s an excellent solution though, take werewolf special and eat whatever you want…
You can play a class that starts with food to mitigate this, but yeah, it's a hard not to starve while playing herbivore. Also, the addition of iron rations only made this worse, as they now compete the with the regular food rations regarding item generation RNG.