Okay I really like the meals idea, I was thinking when I drank my pineapple juice last night, why can't I have a pie too? They may have to reduce the existing stats if we could stack food items but it would add realism and fun.

You could have micro items like mints that add only +1 mind or something of the like too. Or even 0.5. Maybe for ease culinarians could even 'package' the meals in baskets for people, and have them consume the item that way, it would be a level 48 recipe of course so only high level culinarians could make baskets, or perhaps lower leveled CULs could only put together lunches; a drink and one other main dish OR a dessert.