Our community of servers has a Patreon set up, and that makes it easier for people to see the values going into the server and gives us the transparency people tend to like, plus as it can be set up on a monthly cycle, it makes things easier all around. Something to consider, and it pays out through PayPal as well.
You can add sub 1 integers, so setting food drain to 0.001 should effectively give you just shy of infinite food.
It's not a complete fix, but as this thread wasn't replied to yet, at least it gives you something to start with.