Right now if you start a new glitch and choose EZ Cooking as your first skill you get several recipes that use Cheese as an ingredient. Unfortunately, to get Cheese you need to use 2.2 currants worth of butterfly lotion, spend 10 energy massaging a butterfly, 10 energy milking that butterfly, 2 energy turning the milk to butter and 5 energy turning the butter to Cheese for 27 energy and 2.2 currants. A Cheezy Sammich, which requires a Cheese, only gives you 23 energy when you eat it - not enough to even make another Cheese.
By contrast you only need to spend 9 energy to get one Meat with no skill and Meat is worth more than Cheese.
The problem continues at high level, of course, since paying 2 energy to convert an 8 currant item (milk) into a 6 currant item (butter) is never a good idea, but it seems very pronounced for a starting glitch who is given recipes that they cannot reasonably make.