Quote Originally Posted by Fizban View Post
Growing food out of yourself is fine, phrasing it in terms of an existing spell is easy, but the form change to growing food of yourself inherently brings up the fact that a creature cannot eat itself to survive.
It's a fair point that (1) a setting or story gets more interesting if magic follows actual rules (e.g. Brandon Sanderson) instead of going "LOL it can do anyhting 'cuz its MAGIC!!1!"; and that (2) it is certainly the GM's job to override RAW at those points where RAW gets ridiculous.

So yes, I agree with you that a ghoran shouldn't be able to feed itself. Doesn't change the point that in most campaigns (that don't involve multi-day underground exploration) it's a fine and feasible race to play.