challenge run- help
so, I've sunk 100 hours into 2 playthroughs and decided to give challenge a try. I'm already struggling to balance the days. right now I'm at summer 5, next ration is 18 days, and I only just got my kegs going and all 4 barns(can't seem to get any female pheeps though). titanium pick is cooking. my question is.. is there some kind of trick I'm missing to meet these quotas? my routine for grim was to pickle produce, dry herbs, smoke meat and fish and pickle excess while throwing the rest into the cellar. cook and smoke all my offals into sausages on friday, then cook up a million blood puddings and blood stews on sunday. even this had me barely scraping by in grim. on challenge I fear I won't meet the quota for herbivores, so, how do I feed these guys? should I even bother with preserving, and just toss everything I find into the cellar raw?