It doesn't really matter because the step after is to Prepare the Potluck Feast x1... which you'd need to collect
40 offerings to craft it anyway. It doesn't change the fact you need to craft more feasts to complete the next step... so why dwell on this?
Personally I think you should be happy that you are also the ones who get
6 offerings for 1 simple feast. Those of us who started playing before the bug was fixed only gets
3 offerings for 1 simple feast... We need to cook twice the feasts to get enough offerings for the potluck feast