If the purpose is to make sure you have "enough" of each item in storage when you ascend, I'd prefer to not see the links if I already have enough in storage, closet, or inventory.
I've done 7 Hardcore runs and 1 Normal run this year and I have used my Cookbook Bat identically in all of them: I run it until I can make all three Legendary Pizzas, which I then eat - accompanied by milk of magnesium, which I harvest myself in Hardcore, but which I pulled in Normal.
Which is to say, it never occurred to me to pull the pizzas, rather than using my pulls for something actually useful.
Whatever. Play-styles differ and I am in no way an example to emulate - especially in Normal.
I'm happy enough to get three-day Hardcore and Normal runs with no consumption on the last day.