This mod allows you to put chests and barrels into a crafting table to get an edible version.
These can help you with early-game food in areas where there arent animals such as cold biomes, but they also have a practical mid/late-game use as when you eat them you get a plank from them and for chests its oak and for barrels its spruce. with this if you are in a large dark oak forrest (or any other place with wood but not oak/spruce) you can convert your wood into spruce or oak at a balanced 8:1 ratio, still rewarding players for getting new wood types but if a player only needs a couple planks for there build this wont force them to go on a long trip to get those couple planks.