This game is really hard. Is there any way I can make it easier on myself

you may read this thread for easy walkthroughs

https://itch.io/t/1869182/how-to-cook-stuff

If you look through your game folder a bit you willsee a folder called mods there are mods in there . From new colors to optimizations and a mod menu i think you just have to activate them. Goodluck