I didn't go for cooking vamp at first- this is my long time goal, but I'm not in hurry as I don't need another kitchen that much. I rather have energy and cool things.
My first thing was Cabbage hut - totally worth it. Since you can sometimes get alicorns from the tent ( and other cool stuff); Next was MRC - it is worth it. You can craft some daily alicorns there ( 4 armored ones); purple ones ( don't know the limit); unicorns ( which drop energy, spell bond dew...; dragons; manticores, and it is possible they will add things one day... - Don't regret neither.
Other tokens so far I have used on unicorns, alicorns
This hunt I used ALL my gold tokens- went to zero. But no regrets. Beastline display will help me a little in the mean time, but I really try to get all animals that drop energy - as we are always low. Mostly collecting tokens to get alis.