Solution for starving city

TL: DR Sell foodstuffs to the market, it will take an in-game day to take effect.

I was having an issue with maintaining a garrison at my first city without causing starvation. When looking around on the Internet I found most people did not have solutions other than moding. As I'm on console this isn't an option. After trying some things out I found that the modifiers to your town's food stores (Cheese +1, Grain +20 etc.) are directly tied to the amount of food in the market. If your town is starving you can pump the market full of food, however, it will take an in-game day to take effect. Also, it will drive the price of those goods down which likely will cause caravans to buy more of them, but if you maintain high amounts of foodstuffs for long enough then your town's food stores will increase to an acceptable margin. It may be a viable strategy to buy foodstuffs from towns you intend to go to war with soon to reduce their food stores (this wouldn't affect siege food stores, but it could cause civil unrest) further testing would need to confirm.

I don't know if this is a known solution already, but I figured if I couldn't find a reddit post with this information then it would be good to share again.

submitted by /u/willjoe99
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