How can i can keep all nutrition bars full all year?

[Hunbird1]

How much food of each type should I store to make sure I can keep all nutrition bars full all year?

Also what is the best forms to keep them in,I was thinking of keeping grains and vegetables in storage vessels in my cellar, make milk in to cheese,

 and just kill one of my animals (likely pigs) or collect eggs when I need protein. Not sure about fruit maybe wine?

How many animal an how much food for them do I need for meat and cheese, and how much if i keep chickens for eggs and feathers.

Speaking about cheese will cheese-making use up pickled vegetables or can I reuse them.  

[Zaph42nd]

Highly recommend making meals with crocks, usually I cook up a couple crocks of each major food group, then mix/match for optimized food-sources since sealed crocks in cellars last anywhere from 3 in-game months to over an in-game year or more. Cheese and wine are not bad options for dairy and fruit, but I'd say sealed crocks still beat out most options in versatility and storage longevity. Other options to consider are charred bread for grains (lower satiety but good for keeping once winter hits) and pies (just a good year-round food and easy to get most food-groups in a single pie)

[Hunbird1]

I was more thinking of stockpiling ingredients so throughout the year I can use them to make small batches when I need them.  

 But if I were to do crocks, how many do I need and what meals should I put in them. 

Thank you for responding Zaph42nd

[LadyWYT]

3 hours ago, Hunbird1 said:

How much food of each type should I store to make sure I can keep all nutrition bars full all year?

It heavily depends on your gameplay settings. If you play with increased hunger rates or longer months, you'll need more food. On lower hunger rates or shorter months, you don't need as much. On default settings, having a few shelves full of stews sealed into crocks, a couple of storage vessels full of grain and vegetables, and several pies/a couple barrels of wine should be plenty to keep your nutrition up on standard game settings.

Dairy is usually best handled by cheese, since cheese keeps very well, but cheese also takes a while to make. Milk will keep for several days during the colder months, and if your sheep/goats bred in the fall they'll usually give birth during winter and provide more milk.

3 hours ago, Hunbird1 said:

and just kill one of my animals (likely pigs) or collect eggs when I need protein.

Protein can be easily had from hunting, butchering livestock, collecting eggs, or eating soybeans or fat. 

3 hours ago, Hunbird1 said:

Not sure about fruit maybe wine?

Honey qualifies as fruit, and never goes bad. That being said, wine is a much easier way to preserve fruit nutrition for a long time, as is turning the fruit into jam or pies. Jam keeps for a very long time even in an unsealed crock. Wine is probably the least nutritious option, but it keeps for a very long time as well, and the mashed fruit can be fed to most livestock.

 

3 hours ago, Hunbird1 said:

How many animal an how much food for them do I need for meat and cheese, and how much if i keep chickens for eggs and feathers.

This is mostly personal preference, although it also depends on what livestock you have to work with. Pigs reproduce quickly and will eat a wide variety of food. Chickens only eat grain, which keeps a while, but you do need to keep them fed in order to keep them producing eggs(one portion per chicken per day is my general rule of thumb). Sheep and goats can eat hay, which is easy to acquire and store, but they must give birth in order to give milk, and only give 10 L per day for 20 days. It takes 25 L of milk to make one wheel of cheese.

Also keep in mind that you only need to feed livestock if you intend to breed them. You'll also need to feed them before butchering if they're at a lower rate, but this usually isn't a problem since it's easy enough to cull older livestock(which will be the fat ones) as needed before breeding.

3 hours ago, Hunbird1 said:

Speaking about cheese will cheese-making use up pickled vegetables or can I reuse them.  

Cheese making will use up the pickled veggies. However, it only takes 2 pickled vegetables per full barrel of milk, and each full barrel will yield 2 cheeses. The more expensive part of cheese production is the amount of extra salt required to process the curdled milk into proper cheese. I think it's around 20 salt for every 2 cheeses.

 

3 minutes ago, Hunbird1 said:

But if I were to do crocks, how many do I need and what meals should I put in them. 

This goes back to what your game settings are, and your personal preference. More filling meals like meaty stews tend to be better choices, since each serving provides more energy than say, a portion of soup or vegetable stew. A good handful of shelves filled with sealed crocks of meaty stew should be enough to last most of a winter on standard settings, especially if you're supplementing it with fresh meat from hunting or livestock.