Canned Meal

"A canned meal. Half of a simple meal packed into a sterilized can. Better than nutrient paste or raw food, but not very good. Travels extremely well however."

The canned meal is a food item added by the Meals and Munchies expansion. Produced at a Cannery after researching Advanced Food Preservation, canned meals never spoil, take 4 years to deteriorate under normal conditions and provides a very solid price of $10.00 per can. As the description states, it's half a simple meal and therefor provides half as much nutrition as one, 0.45, but gives a -1 mood penalty when consumed.

Like all canned goods, it unfortunately cost 1 steel a piece to produce 5 cans, but can be stacked up to 75, meaning they're 3.75 times more space efficient and can be kept anywhere with no fear of spoiling, making them the ultimate survival food as far as shelf life and nutritional density go. Unfortunately, they cannot be used in cooking to extend their usefulness further. Finally, although they will never spoil, they can still be blown up, crushed, burned or left to deteriorate.