Meal Planner
Three slots, 97 dishes. All of your health, stamina and eitr comes from what is in them.
| Slot | Health | Stamina | Eitr | Regen | Duration | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empty | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Empty | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Empty | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | – | – |
Pick up to three dishes to see the totals.
Two health and one stamina to fight; two stamina and one health to explore. Health is what a hit takes and stamina only has to cover a combo, while running, jumping and chopping are all stamina and nothing out there is hitting you. Each preset fills its slots with the best dish for that slot available by the biome, not the highest number on the page.
Best in each stat
The top three dishes for each stat. Seal Meat Soup leads on health and Pancakes on stamina; a full trio of the best in one stat reaches 325 health or 340 stamina.
| Health | Seal Meat Soup 110 | Meat In Bread 110 | Piquant Pie 105 |
| Stamina | Pancakes 115 | Oatmeal 115 | Oat Milk 110 |
| Eitr | Oven Pancake 105 | Fish Soup 105 | Meatballs and Poteitr 105 |
| Per minute | Luminous Larva 6 | Oat Milk 6 | Lingonberry Juice 6 |
How Valheim food works
Each of the three slots holds one dish, and your maximum health, stamina and eitr are the sum of what is in them — food is not healing, it is your stat bar. A buff decays over its duration and can be topped up once it has burnt down to half, so the useful schedule is half the SHORTEST of your three, not the longest. That is why a mixed trio of medium dishes often beats three big ones that all expire together.
Valheim gives you three food slots and your entire health, stamina and eitr pool comes from them, so the question is never which dish is best but which three work together. Seal Meat Soup leads on health at 110 and Pancakes on stamina at 115, but stacking one stat wastes the other two slots. The planner above totals any combination of the 97 dishes and, more usefully, works out when to eat again: a buff can be refreshed at half its duration, so the shortest of your three sets the timer.
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Valheim food FAQ
What are the best three foods in Valheim?
It depends what you are doing. Seal Meat Soup gives the most health at 110 and Pancakes the most stamina at 115; a fight wants health and armour-carrying weight, exploration wants stamina. The planner above totals any three of the 97 dishes so you can see the trade directly.
When should you eat again in Valheim?
At half the duration of your shortest buff, not when it runs out. A food buff decays across its whole duration and can be topped back up from the halfway point, so waiting for the bar to empty means fighting with a stat that has already been falling for minutes.
Can you eat the same food twice?
No. Valheim will not put the same dish in two slots, which is what forces a three-way trade-off instead of three helpings of the best food you have.
What is the best stamina food in Valheim?
Pancakes at 115, and the best three together come to 340. Stamina is what limits sprinting, blocking and every bow shot, so a stamina-leaning trio changes how a fight feels far more directly than the same points spent on health.
What food gives the most eitr in Valheim?
Oven Pancake at 105. Eitr is the magic resource, and it is the one stat where food is almost the whole story — there is no armour set that grants it, so a mage build is decided at the cauldron and then topped up by the individual pieces that carry eitr regeneration.