Sanctuary to visit

I usually play Deino and since one of the prime requirements is to visit a sanctuary do you target to visit the center swamp sanctuary unless you spawn at East Lake/Swamps? It seems so far going from north to south. My problem when doing this route is you almost always run out of food. Assuming you survived delta and made it to swamps, maybe you have like 20% hunger or so you are kinda fucked if you can't find any food on swamps to make the trip back to delta. I play on Dinopolis/Metta since they are have the most playable ping from my location so player count isn't that big compared to other servers. Scavenging food and surving the delta is already hard enough as a juve too. Would it make sense to target like other sanctuaries that are more on land? Like the one in verdant pond or in delta or maybe even go to East Lake from North Lake? I died from starvation twice now going this route and I hate spawning in North Lake/Water access for this reason. I'm quite new to the game ~50 hours or so.