This is awesome! Unscrupulous food preparation is a very amusing interpretation of the limitation, the identification mechanic with all the overlapping criteria is very well designed; and I had a lovely moment of genuine panic when I was idly looking through the book thinking the game was paused and realized suddenly the time was still going down in the background.
I ended up getting all the way to day 5 by just automatically cooking any non-pink 50-80 low-medium probably-wasps and hatching everything else - though I’m sure if I had fully memorized them all I could have gotten even further.