Allow soups and stews to stack up to 4 per slot.

* None of this applies to Suspicious Stews *

As food items they are helpful but are too kludgy to manage as a practical food source. Most soups and stews have multiple barriers against their use, which overall do not make up for the benefit gained. For one thing, multiple unrelated ingredients required to craft (minus the reusable bowls).

If soups and stews are pre-crafted, then you quickly fill up your inventory with nothing but food items that won't sustain you for more than a two or three days. If you choose to do JIT crafting, you have to drop a crafting table and make the food while still keeping ingredients on hand (plus one or more bowls), all of which will occupy three or more inventory slots anyway.

Compare this to pumpkin pies which can be pre-crafted, don't need bowls, and can be stacked up to 64. Nor is it very difficult to collect and breed a few chickens for their eggs, cultivate some sugarcane, and grow some pumpkins, in order to make your pies.

The bowls are easy enough to make. Mushrooms...not so much. Rabbits are a pain to deal with. Potatoes and carrots are only found occasionally in villages and on the rare zombie.

Generally you're just better off making bread all the time and hunting cow, sheep, and pig for backup. There's just no compelling reason to use stews as a food source except to be "different", which isn't enough IMO. At least if stews were stackable up to 4, they would be better balanced against the more common food sources.