Everyone does know that you can pause the game before you quit to insure nothing happens when you are gone from the computer, right? As far as feeding the tribe, I span around continuously looking for shrooms. I pick up two or three children and drop one child on the shroom after pausing the game. Then unpause and drop one or two more children on the shroom. This nets 18 food points each time. My children fed the tribe until other food sources became available.