Starter kit has appropriate items, though perhaps not the same setup we use for TFC. The rule book, a stick, 8 rocks, and 2 empty water jugs are given upon initial spawn. Giving food doesn't work via commands very well, that usually involved command blocks with meta data tags.
I set a worldguard region with health regen and food regen flags turned on at 1 second intervals in the maze so that may take care of low food at the beginning.