Been playing a lot today and last night, go two things to report:
the tutorial is buggy, after starting a new game for the second time the tutorial 'unfinished itself' and I couldn't use the vending machine. instead there was an arrow pointing at an empty point in my inventory. After an additional restart I made sure I went to the main street and didn't get that bug, but I do now have the tutorial kebob stuck in my inventory, I'm unable to eat it or give it away.
A second issue that I'm unsure is a bug is that bug type meals actually took me out of the bug route and put me on the fat route. I don't remember the specific meals I fed her.