Why not give them a bunch of survival and medical supplies? Sure, not everything may be usable after it gets "converted", but still it's better than sending them off with nothing.
I'm listening to situation the gods are assholes considering the Chief God fucked up and then didn't do anything to try to fix it and instead the God of chefs had to help. Also the whole thing of throwing away the broth after boiling the stuff is due to one British recipe that for some reason got passed around a lot as a classic medieval recipe when they wouldn't do that in medieval times.