@Bert Smoked meat is worse than something like dried meat (only if there is no salts used when drying the meat)becose when you smoke meat carbon mononxides make their way inside The flesh.You could still probably scrape off the outside part of the flesh but you cant really know how deep The toxins have went.
@Bert I mean when someone is nutriently deprived, sick, everything is hard, especially change as the body is so stuck in the loop and the unhealthy homeostasis.
Depends what work you do. I'd look for a milk farm so that you automatically can stay hydrated during the time there, cuz if they don't give you milk there than that's crazy. Also look for a farm not too far from a city or a smaller town so that you can buy other things like meat if they don't wanna give or sell you meat for a reasonable price.