The thread title poses a more general question, but my immediate interest is in getting colonists to eat single servings of insect jelly.
Insect jelly gives a mood buff, so that's nice, but I don't want colonists to demolish my inventory for full meals.
Morsels, eh?
Honey is a kind of insect jelly, and it's great in tea...
theoretically, they will take what they need to be full....if you manually have them eat a meal, THEN have them immediately eat an insect jelly, i would guess they'll eat only 1 or 2
I fear the easiest solution would be to create a meal recipe that includes a single piece of jelly as requirement.
Spiced Meal or something .. it would also lower the micro to feed your pawns with jelly.
Or a completely different route .. go and make it a recreational drug.
Basicly i saw this kind of pickup mechanic at the HCSK Modpack. Or at last you can pickup half of a stack there.