First off I'm lovin VV2 and the similarities between parents and children.
Ok - here's my prob: Just started the village last night. I lost my sole builder to fire ants today and found my tribe to be at 0 food upon login ( I know about the idle farmer thingy and the patch that is coming - had game on 1/2 speed all night and day.) So I have my remaining adults except for my 2 scientists who are currently preggers all farming. Got about 700 food and the algae struck. The coconuts have long been gone and certainly could use quicker refreshing I don't have the Farming 3 tech yet and just barely got the Science tech 2 before this happened. So now I have the 700 food, 10 villagers(incl the 2 babies) of which the previous 4 farmers are now scientists with only a few hundred tech points. How am I to do this? The only way to get rid of the algae is tech 3 of farming right? But that's 90000 points and I don't think mushroom picking is gonna keep the food supply up to par eventually. VV2 is considerably tougher than VV1 thats for certain! Any advice welcome

Now I am assuming that you have L2 farming already......as long as you only keep one villager on farming from now on and don't have more kids till you solve the algae problem you should be ok. you won't have and abundance of food, but you should be ok....

Thank you Batgrl2u!
I do have l2 farming but the coconuts are like down to 8. This scares me.

Would it be better if I hold out for the 90000 tech points I need for farming L3 or should I go for EngineeringL2 when I'm eligible for that?

I realize I probably should have gotten engineering L2 before Science L2 but that's the noob in me

Well.. i was 50% done with the dam, zero coconuts and 40 food
I had to rely on mushrooms while my stupid villagers worried about food
i found myself yelling at them to hurry with the dam lol
i finally did it. i have 15 food and 95% done with the dam
woohoo..

this is my 2nd game

get engineering first

after you finish the puzzle you will have a new source of food

I actually lasted with zero food for a good period of time while waiting to get the tech points for Farming 3.

I wanted to post this a few days ago but I had trouble getting registered. Thanks to someone with the forums, I was finally able to get in!

Anyhow, I was faced with the no food problem a couple of times. My hint is to make a stew if you have that capability. I won't give the recipe here, just search stew recipes. It only takes 10 food to make the stew with the rainbow effect. I would get the water and herbs in the kettle. As soon as I found 2 mushrooms or a red mushroom, I sent someone after food. Then I was able to drag everyone to the kettle and revive their health bars. Some of the olders ones had to go twice but the stew usually lasted long enough. I hope this helps someone keep their villagers alive. I had to do it more than once while trying to increase tech points. I was able to get plenty of mushrooms in my village. But I babysat my son's village one day. He had few mushrooms but lots of collectables! How frustating. At least it helped increase his tech points.

Another quick tip if you have no food at all, not even enough to make a stew, is to play on pause.
By that I mean, keep the game paused while you search out mushrooms. This way you will be able to get enough mushrooms to make a stew without losing any of your villagers. Or even if you don't have enough tech yet to make stew, it will be enough to keep you going until the crops are ready. It will make your game a bit boring for an hour or so, but at least you'll be able to save your villagers.

Thank goodness you guys had some advice. I have 13 villagers, running to 0 on food every time the crops are ready and out of coconuts and have algae. Definitely a little tougher! But loads of fun.

I made it!!! Whew - got the algae cured and food is no longer an issue! Thanks so much for the advice.