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A '''meal''' is a consumable food item in Vintage Story, created by [[cooking]] various foodstuffs in a [[cooking pot]]. Meals provide significant boosts to [[satiety]] and allow a wider range of edible items to be used.

All meals must be made in a [[cooking pot]] heated in a [[firepit]]. Meals can be made out of a mix of ingredients, but must be made according to specific recipes for the game to register them as valid meals. Certain recipes require ingredients to be placed in a specific order in the cooking pot as well. Recipes can be multiplied in order to make multiple servings at a time, up to a maximum of four servings.

Certain foods that cannot be eaten raw, such as [[soybean]]s and [[peanut]]s, can be used to cook meals.  

* [[Vegetable stew]]

* [[Meat stew]]

* [[Porridge]]

* [[Soup]]

* [[Jam]]

* [[Scrambled eggs]]

[[File:Hefty-veggie-stew.png|thumb|80%|right|A hefty vegetable stew made with four ingredients]]

Every meal uses one or more types of ingredient as its basis, which must occupy certain slots in the cooking pot in order to register as a valid meal. These ingredient types include foods such as [[vegetable|vegetables]], [[mushroom|mushrooms]], [[meat]] or [[grain]].  

Meals that have three different primary ingredients are called "hearty" meals, while meals with four different primary ingredients are called "hefty" meals. For example, a vegetable stew made with onion, turnip and carrot would be called "Hearty onion-turnip stew with carrot garnish", while a vegetable stew with onion, turnip, carrot and cabbage would be "Hefty onion-turnip stew with carrot and cabbage garnish". [[Honey]], if added as an optional ingredient, is called a "topping".

Once a meal is cooked it will be stored in the cooking pot. In order to actually eat the meal, players must place down the pot containing the meal on a block (leaving it on the firepit will also work) and {{Using|use}} an equipped [[bowl]] on the cooking pot to fill the bowl with a single portion. The player can then eat that portion of the meal.  

Meals can also be placed into [[crock]]s to preserve them. To do so, equip the crock and {{Using|use}} it on the cooking pot or bowl containing the meal. Preserved crocks can then be sealed with [[fat]] and placed in a [[cellar]] to further extend their shelf life.