Khürt, I just noticed another example of this type of self-dogfooding/experimentation for read posts by Eddie Hinkle Owning my Reading and 100 Days of Reading Chapters. Hopefully we can all come to some type of interesting consensus that makes it easier for others in the future.
On your quest for tracking things like what you’re drinking, you might be interested to know that Aaron Parecki has a micropub client called Teacup, though I don’t know if anyone has gotten it to dovetail nicely with WordPress yet.