I've heard of this game a lot but this is the first time I played it. It was... really easy? That was unexpected. Wife got typhoid and dysentery but she survived. Baby broke an arm and a leg somehow but also survived.
At a glance it would seem like buying food is for chumps and you can easily get tons of food very quickly with hunting for a fraction of the price. Although the banker class has so much wealth they can just buy enough supplies to breeze through the entire journey up front.