(I thought I'd posted a followup, but maybe it didn't go through?)

After a number of reboots, Tir-Talath food is still insubstantial -- eating a pound of meat provides very little nutrition.

If this is by design, please let me know so I can take this to the Gameplay forum.

If this is a redundant post and/or if the most recent reboot (a couple minutes ago) deployed the fix, my apologies -- I'm only reposting this because I think I must not have posted it right the first time.