Instead of just having food and drinks that recover x amt of health and energy, maybe have some higher quality recipes that give passive health and energy recovery over time for x amt of time depending on quality of recipe and rarity of ingredients used.
i like that idea, even though i'm using the regen mod, tiny for health while standing still, and energy slowly anytime it would be nicer to control that at any time i guess healing could be low, which will be the cost of regeneration
Well I bumped into this today: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/4898 The sprint is unnecessary but it can be disabled.