Vegetarian fine meal

See also: Fine meal and Carnivore fine meal

A vegetarian fine meal is a variant of the fine meal created from vegetarian ingrediants.

Acquisition

Vegetarian fine meals can be cooked at a Fueled stove or Electric stove. Each meal requires 0.75 units of nutrition from vegetable or animal products (milk or eggs), 450 ticks (7.5 secs) of work to make, and a Cooking skill of 6.

Summary

A fine meal can be eaten by humans or animals for 0.9 nutrition. As it takes 0.75 nutrition of raw food to create, vegetarian fine meals provide 120% nutrition efficiency, which is less than regular fine meals.

Eating a fine meal or any of its variants gives the +5 Ate fine meal moodlet for 24 hours. This moodlet stacks with the +12 Ate lavish meal from lavish meals. If Ideology DLC is active and the meal was made out of raw fungus, its normal moodlet will be applied.

Analysis

Vegetarian fine meals are useful for the fine meal mood boost if meat is unavailable, or if it is forbidden by ideoligion. Vegetarian meals are less efficient for food than simple meals or fine meals. However, they are reasonable for daily use, if your colonists have the time to produce the extra food. They can also be saved for mood-related emergencies.

Even if meat could be available through hunting or ranching, it might be easier to grow the +44% extra food, compared to simple meals, for the +5 mood buff.