I am getting tired of accidentally eating my salt. Just today I woke up with no food but the salt and went out picking lingonberries. Halfway through eating them my inventory did a little dance, rearranged itself, and before I could stop myself I'd gone through half the salt.

We all know how rare salt is, eating it is like eating gold coins. I think it ought to behave more like raw meat, only allowing you to satisfy your appetite when you're really quite desperately starving if even then.

Speaking of raw meat, I've been eating tons of it lately (in game (and on accident)). Even though the latest updates are supposed to fix food items moving up and down in the inventory it still happens to me anytime I try to eat more than a 3-4 food items off a stack in a sitting. This combined with the way the inventory remembers the last item you selected (BY PLACE apparently, not by its name/type) makes selecting the wrong item very easy. Also it seems some of the restrictions placed on raw meat aren't working the same way as the used to. I've eating raw meat on a nearly full or even completely full stomach on several occasions. The bug is caused by eating a cooked or otherwise consumable item first then reach for the raw stuff. This combination of issues is literally making my character sick.

How about making it so a character won't eat raw meat if he's got non-spoiled cooked meat in the inventory? One of my other biggest food-related pet peeves is to kill an animal when starving, cook a stack of meat, then reach for the wrong thing in the inventory and get the raw meat poisoning myself for a week or more. I don't think in real life it's very likely to happen, at least I've never done it with bacon in the morning no matter how hungry I am and no matter how much more raw bacon I have than cooked bacon.

I think the most logical solution is to prevent eating salt directly; I say that it should be considered a tool instead of a food item. Salt has no actual nutritional value: sodium is a micro-nutrient that would be extremely harmful in large quantities, and is only useful in smaller quantities (and most of that is provided naturally).

Eating a pound of salt would be lethal; the lethal dose (50%) of salt is 3-4 grams per kilogram of body mass, so somebody who weighs 74 kilograms (like me!) would likely be killed by eating 222-296 grams of sodium. A pound is 454 grams.