Best meals to eat before hunting in Monster Hunter Wilds

Before you head out on your monster-hunting escapades, you should always consume a meal to raise your stamina and health. You’ll survive much longer through this method, similar to past Monster Hunter iterations. In this guide, we’ll go over the best meals to eat in Monster Hunter Wilds.

What are the best meals in Monster Hunter Wilds?

You’ll collect resources for meal recipes throughout your adventures, whether from Tom’s Ingredient Center or villagers. Rations are required to cook these dishes, and you can get them for free at your Base Camp. Meat, Fish, and Veggies will always be provided, giving you standard buffs for effects. However, if you want to improve its stats, you must add an ingredient. Let’s dig into the best meal combinations to eat in Monster Hunter Wilds.

Veggies and Droolshroom

• Health: +50
• Stamina: +150
• Defense: +2
• Elemental Resistances: +3
• Effect Duration: 50 minutes
• Food Skill: Black Belt Meal (Lo)

The Veggies and Droolshroom is one of the best early meals you can make, providing a total of five buffs. You’ll discover Droolshrooms while exploring Scarlet Forest, which is found near the Wudwuds. Combining the ingredients provides the Black Belt Meal, a buff that reduces stamina depletion.

Meat and Kunafa Cheese

• Health: +50
• Stamina: +150
• Attack: +2
• Effect Duration: 50 minutes
• Food Skill: Defender Meal (Lo)

As you embark on your journey in Monster Hunter Wilds, you’ll find yourself aiding the residents of Kunafa Village. In return, they’ll share their renowned cheese, unlocking the Defender Meal. This buff increases your survivability by occasionally reducing the damage you’ve taken in a battle.  

Fish and Mud Shrimp

• Health: +50
• Stamina: +150
• Defense: +4
• Effect Duration: 50 minutes
• Food Skill: Tumbler Meal (Lo)

For those seeking a robust defense, the Fish and Mud Shrimp meal is the answer. This ultimate seafood dish, with its additional stat points and Tumbler Meal buff, makes it easier to survive through the game’s many intense showdowns. You’ll find the Mud Shrimp at Oilwell Basin, extending your evasion’s invulnerability.

Fish and Sild Garlic

• Health: +50
• Stamina: +150
• Defense: +4
• Effect Duration: 50 minutes
• Food Skill: Moxie Meal (Lo)

As you progress further in Monster Hunter Wilds’ main campaign, you’ll be introduced to Sild Garlic, another helpful ingredient that boosts a meal’s duration. It has qualities similar to Droolshroom but with slightly more defense. Sild Garlic also boasts the Moxie Meal, a Food Skill that prevents fainting (at least once) when you take in a substantial amount of damage.

Veggies and Fluffy Egg

• Health: +50
• Stamina: +150
• Defense: +2
• Elemental Resistances: +3
• Effect Duration: 50 minutes
• Food Skill: Caprice Meal (Lo)

World’s Downy Crakes have returned in Monster Hunter Wilds, expanding the Endemic Life monster collection. They’ll leave behind delicious Fluffy Eggs, which includes the Caprice Meal buff. Combine it with Veggies to gain a temporary attack boost randomly.