I have played this game a while back and I ran into the issue of not being able to get any path beside the default or starvation paths, I've tried to save up money to buy enough items specific to a path, but I couldn't guarantee I would get the right good, so I was stuck between eating food to prevent starvation path and not eating top prevent the default path while not achieving any other path at all
My advice for improvement would be to have specific food items or food types appear in certain price ranges more often with their chance of dropping highly increased and once you unlock a food item you could look in the gallery and it would tell you that price range, I am uncertain if that already is a feature because there was nothing to indicate that