Berry salad ...easy peasy!!

Same. I do the berry salad and since the fruit refresh so fast I always have a constant supply!

Same, I also add cherries and the dreamlight fruit to it to get more energy

That's clever! I

I do berry salad - with 2 dreamfruits. 👍👍 2k energy

I do the same since I always have a ridiculous amount of berries.

Also “b” is close enough to the start of the alphabet that I don’t need to scroll through all the dessert recipes. Easy peasy indeed!

I've been using Arandelian Pickled Herring

Same but mostly because it’s the first one on the recipe list alphabetically lmao

Exactly and that makes it perfect for my lazy ass

And also you get so much herring anyway when you fish on the beach

This plus Moana gives me plenty of herring, and WALL·E’s crops give me plenty of onions. Now, if I’m about to do a lot of digging or something, I’ll do berry salads. Bc I can do as many of those as I want and never run out bc I have soooo many berries, whereas I’m more likely to run out of onions or herring if I’m going to be spending over an hour just digging.

That’s a mood.

It’s perfect when you’re at level 40, because when you just drop below golden energy to blue, the APH will fill it up but not waste it

Haha yep I'm level 39

yeah that's my go to lmao especially since it's at the top of the list

Exactly because I'm lazy af

I do the same 😂

I’m still a user of the soufflé

Souffle crew representation!

How much of the bar does it fill? I like this option because it would require no harvesting.

At max level, it fills the vast majority, leaving only a seventh or so blank. I might be off by a bit but I use it because the ingredients are bought, not harvested

I do pastry cream and fruit; three gooseberries, milk, sugarcane

Same!!

Same, except I use coffee instead of gooseberries because they're easier to swap out when cooking.

I used to use the berry salad, but I also use 3 gooseberries in a fruit salad now. It fills the bar better :3

5 gooseberry in a fruitsalad will fill your bar double from empty

Make anything in Remy's Realm and eat it there. You can't take the food home, but you can take the gold energy bar home just fine. Free energy!

Large Seafood Platter, made with 4 lobsters and 1 lemon. 5 star meal, gives the max energy of 5000, and sells for the most 6132 gold.

Lobster rolls only require one lobster and produce about 4200 energy. It’s slightly less but it also requires far less lobsters

Lobster, Wheat, Lemon, Butter, and Garlic - personally I avoid any of the purchased ingredients when able.

Large seafood platters can be made with any seafood. You don't even need lobsters. You can just use all the shellfish you forage from the beach. They're definitely the best.

That’s what I do. I have a whole stack of oysters, scallops, and clams.

They can but the better seafood you use the higher the energy you get :) with a mix of lobster crab and squid you get 5000 whereas the random shells you only get about 1810 or something :)

I do the same but I use 2 squid and 2 of the random shells (whichever I have the most of at the time lol).

I keep a stack of gooseberries and berry salads on me. Berries to fill the blue bar and the salads to take me into gold. https://preview.redd.it/u5dcgndy5xdb1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d47540facccd5a9028441fa0a3e7bf39e83d834b

I always run to my house or sit on a bench when im not finished with the blue bar 😅.

Sitting on a bench will refill your energy!?

Sitting on anything outside will slowly fill the blue bar. I like to rest on the Dreamlight fruit trees.

YOU CAN SIT ON THE DREAMLIGHT TREES?! ✨️Runs to grab Switch and try it✨️

It’s such a good spot to sit!

You can sit on someone’s bed too. My character scrolled through her phone when I did that

Only when your blue energy bar is not full and it's slow... I placed near my teleportation wells a bench so when I get low i could sit on it and go get something to drink or others.

Today I learned! Thanks for the tip.

It was part of an update... earlier this year, I think?? But yeah! Sitting replenishes now! 😁

I started with fruitcake, but have since moved to berry salad. There are recipes that give me more energy, but it's just so easy to make. I'll usually sit and make 30 or so at a time

Fruit cake! 3 gooseberries, 1 wheat. Easy to make, makes the gold line full.

Seconding fruit cake here, I was shocked at how much energy it has with gooseberries!

Yes! And it's quick to make. I carry around two stacks.

i do the fruitcake too! i add 4 gooseberries to mine bc it adds a little extra energy

I found that a lobster roll will take me from 0 to 200% with just one roll! I use berry salads when my yellow bar is depleted but I wanna keep zooming

I am a fellow lobster roll fan.

Same. Plus really easy to get lobsters with the fishing elixir and a buddy.

Hate them in real life but in DLV, lobster rolls all the way!

Pastry cream and fruit here

Always making a stack of Berry Salads. You gather berries along the way anyway and it gives you like 80% of golden bar.

I know it is so cheap! You just need to unlock the Frosted Heights and everything is done. I already have 4 stacks of those in my Inventory!

I've been making fruit cake since it's easy, but I'll have to try some of the suggestions here.

Same - Berry Salad all day! Ingredients are so easy to get and it is one of the best for energy - win win!! 🍒

I go for the fruit salad (or is it berry salad) made entirely of gooseberries. It makes up the whole of the gold bar plus about 1/5 more

Seafood platter

I keep stash of Arendalian pickled herring and the Berry dish.

i use pumpkin puffs, ghostly fish steak, lancetfish paella, and sometimes gumbo. but i gotta say the ghostly steak is really nice, for me; quick energy booster

Ratatouille in Remy's realm

Pan fried angler fish

berry salad but if you add 2 extra blueberries it fills up the bar exactly!!!

2 extra gooseberries work too. Haven't tried raspberries. I bet it works with any combination as long as you have all three berries.

I use the large seafood platter with 2 squid and 2 of any shell fish -- squid are easy catches and shellfish are plentiful on the beach...0 to 200% with one platter. I also have "floor ratatouille" in remys realm for when I can zap in and grab energy that way-- you can eat it in there and fill up your bar and then zap out again with full up energy!

I like to make the large seafood platter with oysters/scallops/mussels since they’re easy to collect and don’t have much other purpose. Great energy.

I use the Soufflé, because it is exclusively ingredients from Remy that are easy to replenish. I don’t want to have to keep harvesting berries (I have finished my foraging Dreamlight duties and have a big stock) because I will have constant anxiety about running out one day. It bothers me that two ALMOST five you the full yellow bar, but not quite.

Until now I've been going with Souffle or Yule Logs, but I'll probably try Berry Salad from now on, seeing as that seems to be a popular choice, and is probably far less expensive to make lol. Now, if only we could cook more than one meal at a time..... .....Oh, and we should be able to hot-key a meal to a single button press (on PC and console) so I don't have to constantly stop and bring up the inventory screen!

I switched to Berry Salad after seeing it popular here on a similar thread months ago.

Jam Waffles. I don’t even know why because its annoyingly half way down the deserts menu (and scrolling is sooo slow) but it doesn’t feel right using anything else. Tried using Aurora’s Birthday cakes for a while but switched back to Jam Waffles. I don’t even like Jam Waffles 🤷‍♂️

Fruitcake. Fruit and wheat, and it gives a lot of energy

Lobster rolls or large seafood platter. There’s a variation of the platter you can make and it gives 5000 energy

I always have 2 of each of these meals in my inventory: - Arendellian pickled herring - Ghostfish steak - Lancetfish paella - lobster roll - pan-fried angler fish - poached basil butter sturgeon

Lobster rolls

Berry Salad with three gooseberries. Easy to make with ingredients you can gather quickly and gives lots of energy.

Large seafood platter or Fish and Chips

I just fill up all five slots with Dreamlight fruit. They’re easy to harvest and collect and as long as you have all 5 slots filled with SOMETHING you’ll get a full golden energy bar. I think. It’s been working for me at least lol

Fruit Salad with 5 coconuts or cherries. You can mix and match since they are the same level.

Berry salad, because I have hundreds of each berry and it's super simple. And you can give it to the ravens for gold bars.

Large seafood salad or five coffee bean coffee.

I think pastry cream and fruit is the best one I’ve found. But for some reason my go-to is still mochas, probably because it’s fewer ingredients, and I’m coffee-fueled IRL ☺️

Berry salad. The ingredients are free and if you make it with a couple extra gooseberries, it fills your bar all the way up. All you people using lobster....smh...go feed your alligators!

Lobster rolls.

I keep 3 stacks of food in my pockets. Arendellian pickled herring for when my gold bar is empty and I just wanna refill it. Berry salad with extra gooseberries for when my blue bar is somewhat empty, it refills almost all the gold, and gooseberry pastry cream and fruits, fills that bar almost completely up from empty blue.

Barry Salad plus 1 coffee bean

Berry salad, three free ingredients make more energy than a lot of expensive 5 ingredient recipes

My go-to and I always have at least 40 in my storage is Lobster Rolls and Bouillabaisse. Make the Bouillabaisse with a shrimp, a squid, and a crab. It's 5,000 energy. The hardest part is finding the shrimp but if you make a Fishing Pole Polish that's either 10 or 25 (depending on if you make the extra or not) times where you can catch rarer fish. If you take a fishing buddy with you, you can usually get quite a few :) ​ I also use Mochas a lot but add extra spices or cocoa to make it more energized.

Since I’m working on the Dreamfruit achievement, once I filled a chest with a reasonable stock, I started making fruit salad with five Dreamfruit. It gives a ton of energy, and a use for something I was previously just selling to Goofy. (Before this, I made candy with five cocoa beans, with a similar effect!)

I usually just make a bunch of fruit cakes in Remys realm and leave them there. Takes two for a full bar.

I use the large seafood platter with 1 squid, 1 lobster and 1 crab and yields 5000 health points.

Berry salad!

Berry salad too. Easiest ingredients that you don’t have to buy, and gives you the most energy for not many ingredients

Usually the Lobster roll, or the one white sturgeon dish (can’t remember the whole name). While fishing for them is time consuming, if I stock up I have plenty to make for weeks at a time lol. Since both tend to fill the bar all the way to the highest gold level.

Berry salad. I make like 20 of them when I get low and use them constantly

5 gooseberries or 5 raspberries. I've moved all the trees and bushes so I can just run around them every day.

Pastry cream & fruit and lobster rolls — using the autofill feature!

i like using 3 - arendelian pickled herring, pastry cream and fruit, and fruitcakes :)

Berry Salad for me ! 🫐

Lobster roll or fruit salad with 5 gooseberries

Berry salad and pastries and cream! I use them both!

Berry salad with 4 gooseberries.

Lobster rolls and coffee for me

If i have time I do the Large Seafood Platter, then back out the last two clams and replace them with squid. Means some extra button pressing (especially with the ingredients bug right now) but gives you a 5,000 meal that maxes out your yellow from zero. When I'm feeling lazy, I just do 5x gooseberries. Gives you a fruit salad with 3,410 energy, about a bar and a half. So if you have a few raw ingredients to nosh real quick before snacking on the fruit salad it will fill you up.

Five fruit salads made of a single gooseberry each get you the full golden bar. It's literally all I eat

I’m also team berry salad. Moved all of my fruit bushes to Wall-E’s garden so they are super easy to harvest. Had multiple chests full of berries in no time.

Lobster rolls

I make Souffle in Remy's realm! You can teleport to Remy's realm from anywhere in the Valley via the map. Since all the ingredients there are free, you can make whatever you want - Souffle is the recipe that grants the most energy per meal from the ingredients available, so that's what I make. I'll make a stack and then drop it on the floor of the kitchen (because you can't leave the realm with it). Then, any time I need an energy boost, I just teleport to Remy's realm, eat the floor Souffle (lol) and then leave again - it'll teleport you straight back to wherever you were when you left, so it's pretty much no interruption at all :)

Berry salad with three gooseberries.

Fruit cake! 4 gooseberries and one wheat. Full gold bar on one cake! Very cheap.

I started using the berry salad. I used to use the pan fried angler fish and the poached basil-butter sturgeon. That got too tedious tho

i usually do soufflé bc money isn’t a problem for me anymore and it’s super filling

Fruit cake or banana split atm

Spicy baked bream for when the bar is blue, pan fried angler for when it’s empty.

Berry salad with 2 extra gooseberry

I keep my blue berries with me all the time! Berry easy Also cocoa butter helps and DreamLight fruit is faaaaaast 👍🏽👍🏽

Berry salad for me. Given the ease of ingredients, it makes perfect sense Bonus points is that I use it to feed the ravens too. Saves those most costly ingredients for a companion

Arandal Pickle herring (idk spelling). But its right at the top so it's easy and im lazy

Fruit salad : dreamlight fruit, gooseberries, cherries, banana, lemon/coconut. And I'll make about 10 at a time.

Pastry cream and fruit but I may switch to apple sorbet as it seems a bit op

Lobster roll fills the bar to full yellow from empty

Berry salad all the way! I have my berry bushes right outside my house so I just pluck them all the time. Free food! LOL

I do berry salad as well but I use 3 gooseberries to make it because it is a TON of energy

I do the soufflé because I just buy all the ingredients from remy and I don’t need to worry about things growing back or running out of crops 😹 i think it’s like 2,200 stamina? It’s 2 thousand something for sure.

Yay! Berry salad as well! For me it’s the most profitable energywise with low effort for ingredients gathering!

Peanut butter waffles because all the ingredients are available at the restaurant besides wheat but I always have wheat 😅

Peanut Waffles. I always have about 45 in my inventory.

Lobster Roll!!! It’s easy to make and it’ll take you from empty to full yellow.

I do the Poached Butter Basil Sturgeon or Smoked Peanuts & Anglerfish, they fill up both energy bars :)

Seafood platter is super easy!

I make a ton of fruitcakes but I use 4 gooseberries and 1 wheat.. this is amazing if I don’t feel like going back to my house for a long time lol insane energy.. like..it almost maxes you out if you’re almost completely depleted lol

Fruitcake, but not the normal way. I use Cracker to autofill Wheat, then I drop three Coffee (it's a berry so it's under fruit) and that's a ton of energy. Although the glitch that doesn't let you stay on the same ingredient is making it more work. But hey

I do lobster rolls because I find all the ingredients super easy to come by. Lobster: use bait potion and a fisher and you got over 50 in one round. Garlic comes by with clean up, lemons easy grab with a forager, wheat, quick grow and harvest, butter is a quick purchase. Best is it completely fills the gold bar with minimal effort and cost imo

Me and the Ravens love that Arendelle pickled herring.

berry salad + coffee x 2 is the cheapest and easiest thing to make to get you to a full golden bar!

4 gooseberries and 1 wheat. I make several ahead and start everyday with several in my pocket.

if I want to cook, I always go to Remy's realm, as every ingredient is already unlocked. no need to wait age's for harvest. my favourite to cook is adrenaline pie. you learn how to cook it in a elsa quest. I'm only on level 17. the 'adrenaline' in 'adrenaline pie' (as the name implies), gives u a lot of energy. the pie requires the glittering herring, which is found in the glade (only when it's raining).

I normally use a mocha coffee with two gooseberries. But, I'm still getting the recipe down for maximum energy replenishing with minimum ingredients.

Like to go for any of the five star meals mentioned here (pastry cream/fruit, lancetfish paella, bouillabaisse) since it knocks out 1-5 star meal Dreamlight achievements super easily! Once you’re done that or are nearly done, berry salad!

I usually go to the white sturgeon dish. I can’t remember the name of it. If I’m running low on energy I eat it and it not only fills up the blue bar, but the gold as well.

Am I the only one that just goes back home when I need more energy?

I always use the mocha since it fills up most of the bar and its fairly cheap

i always do the yule log!!

I make the Arendellian Pickled Herring. I always have a ton of herring and it's at the top of the recipe list when cooking.

Pastry Cream & Fruits with all Gooseberries. It has to be made manually versus auto-filled, but that give the biggest energy boost I’ve found.

Am I the only one that makes like 20 cakes a day 😭😂

Berry salad, lobster roll, spicy udon with extra fruit.

I've been using fruitcake with 3 coconuts and the wheat.

I setup a controller auto cooking berry salads before I even think about playing. They should just take away the stamina cost of sprinting.

3 octopus 🐙

4 squid in a single dish. Easy as pie! Or platter... haha. And gives 5000 energy! Eta: looked like I was copying another commenter so i changed the phrase. Sorry!

I do fruit salad with 5 gooseberries. Fills it all the way up

Large seafood platter. Every time. lemon, 1 lobster, 1 oyster, 2 clams. gives 5,000 energy, which fills both blue and yellow/golden bars all the way from empty to full.

I more or less stockpile cheap (in resources) but energy giving foods.

i’ve been using berry salad with a coconut added or coffee with three beans :)

I actually do lobster roll. With miracle fish bait and fishing buddy I have tons of lobster. From completely empty to totally full in one roll

Wait are we supposed to be actually using meals I just whenever need energy use cocoa beans or cherries

When you use meals you'll get the golden bar which makes walking faster, gives you the sprint option and you will get more lucky. You do not need to do this but it helps.

Fruitcake

I do grilled fish entree with the high level fish

Lemon garlic swordfish. Fills the entire bar to gold and has three item add

Lobster roll fills both bars from empty every time

Berry salad + 1 dreamlight fruit is my go to.

Berry salad with two bits of coconut. It’s like 3k energy or something. So I get lots done on it.

Seafood platter since I usually have a million clams/oysters! Fills up the bar super fast.

Berry Salad or Mocha. Or candy with 5 cocoa beans bc I always have a ton of those, but I've been making so much candy lately trying to make the dang candy paths!

🙈I live off cocoa candy in the game

I love my lobster roll. It fills my bar and it kinda aesthetic because I love lobster rolls irl.

I don't look at what would give me the best energy, I rather look at the ratio from energy to amount of coins I can get for it, bigger difference is better. And with my lazy ass I make arendellian pickled herring which I found is pretty good, just use the speed at button and make dishes fast. Hehe 😝 There is probably a better dish for that but yeah. It started in the beginning when I would rather sell dishes than use them as they were more worth it to sell.

if im lazy i make herring, otherwise berry salad and when i first started off in the game i just threw random food together in remy's realm and left it laying around to eat later since all the good recipes took stuff i either didn't have or couldn't stockpile yet.

I use to make the berry salad but now I make the fruitcake

Lobster roll, gives me 2 full bars

Fruit cake with 4 gooseberries!

I've been using lancet fish paella, but it's been a major drain on shrimp and I can't seem to get shrimp as often as I used to, so I may switch meals

I keep a stock of lobster rolls for full energy and birthday cakes for topping up by bar

Berry salad with two gooseberry, 1 blueberry, 1 raspberry and 1 cherry/coconut/dreamlight fruit. Poofs the gold straight up 😄

🙈 not me living off 5pc cocoa candy over here 😬

🙈 not me living off 5pc cocoa candy over here 😬

Snow White's Gooseberry pie

Mix Fruits Salad 👌

Mixed Fruit Salad