Scarcity mods?

[SirDanest]

Are there any resource scarcity mods that won't break ttw? I guess I got spoiled by playing horizon on fallout 4, which really gave me the survival experience in a dying world. I haven't played fallout 3 since its original days so this is my first time back. Lore-wise, my impression of the capital wasteland is that it's an almost dying world, with almost all of the water basically poisoned.
The gun runners, responsible for so many of the gunpowder weapons on the west, aren't in the east. The west has had two near god-like heroes that protected civilization and allowed it to rise up again (fallout 1 and 2), numerous strong factions, and New Vegas itself, so I'm ok with it being less of a dying world than the east, with a little more plentiful goods.
But in the east, the brotherhood and enclave are more recent arrivals, and the capital wasteland lacks every one of the resource advantages of the west. Yet there is SO much dirt cheap food and SO much dirt cheap ammo and weaponry for pennies most of the time. Other than just throwing away food, bullets, and caps and "pretending" that I never found it, is there a mod solution? I don't feel comfortable just randomly throwing mods in and hoping they work with ttw.

[IAreBob]

Unfound Loot does a pretty good job, from what I remember, of removing a lot of loot from the game via scripts.

As for trading, I think True Wasteland Economy can get the job done. You'll need to keep everything except the Economy Enhanced portion disabled, though.

You can also use a flag in Stewie's tweaks to make selling restrictive:
; make vendors obey their Buy/Sell flags, restricting which items they accept
bBarterCheckActorBuySellFlags = 1

-IAreBob