Less convoluted character studies? Finding useful characters with useful radicals?

I've started studying characters in the following order but it's a bit convoluted. What do you think? How could it be more efficient?

1) I choose to learn about FOOD since that's what I need to read most in life on menus.

2) I choose BREAD because I've already studied it in Drops Language Cantonese but I can't remember the detail.

2) I go to characterpop and trace back to wrap and flour. I then trace back to come/from/wood/marching/face/surface. I then have a look one step further and I get to the radicals.

I end up with the following story for making bread. The full thing is embellished in my mind:

麥wheat comes 从from 夂marching 木wood. 麵 flour is 麥wheat broken down into high 面surface area. Then you take the flour and 包wrap it into dough for 麵包bread

This gives me 7 components to study but the efficiency of this only makes sense if these components are reused in many other characters.

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