Light Meals
by hashtag233
Light Meals, a Forge mod by hashtag233, adds more than 70 foods and dishes that players can cook and eat like the vanilla ones.
What it does
The mod extends the food system of Minecraft with new foods that use ingredients already available in the game. The new dishes are craftable at a crafting table or in a furnace, and two new cakes can be placed and eaten slice by slice, as vanilla cakes are. The author notes that Glow Berries were the only food added in recent years at the time of writing, which is the gap the mod was made to fill.
Light Meals is released under the MIT License and is open source, with public source code and an issue tracker. The server and every player need the mod installed. Files are published for Forge only, covering seven release versions 1.16.1 – 1.18.2, and the latest file, 2.0, targets 1.18.2 and was published on 2022-09-01. Backport requests are ignored because the project targets Forge alone.
Key features
Over 70 new foods
More than 70 foods and dishes are added within the vanilla food system, each with its own recipe.
Crafting table and furnace recipes
New dishes are made at a crafting table or cooked in a furnace, using ingredients players can already gather.
Placeable cakes
Two new cakes can be placed in the world and eaten slice by slice, the same way as the vanilla cake.
Translation support
The mod can be translated into other languages, with English as the first language and translations submitted through the GitHub repository.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want more cooking options in a Forge world, and server owners who want the extra dishes available to every player on a server running the mod.
How it compares
Light Meals is open source under the MIT License and runs on client and server on Forge 1.16.1 – 1.18.2. Food Coma: More Foods is also a Forge mod, built for 1.20.1 – 1.21 and released under All rights reserved. Cheesy Foods n' Stuff targets only 1.20.1 and has the same client and server environment, under All rights reserved. Food flood is a Forge mod for 1.18.2 with the same environment and the same All rights reserved license, so for that version the choice between them is about the foods each one adds.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light Meals | Forge | 1.16.1 – 1.18.2 | Client and server | 2022-09-01 |
| Food Coma: More Foods | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.21 | Client and server | 2025-03-16 |
| Cheesy Foods n' Stuff | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-11-02 |
| Food flood | Forge | 1.18.2 | Client and server | 2023-06-07 |
Questions
Does Light Meals need to be installed on both sides?
Which Minecraft versions does Light Meals support?
Is Light Meals still being developed?
In the catalog
Light Meals is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 9,044 mods support Minecraft 1.18.2.
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What the author says
Minecraft has the great potential of expanding its food system using currently available ingredients, yet it does not seem like they are interested in using that, since no foods except the Glow Berries have been added since 1.15. Light Meals Mod is intended to change such situation by providing spectacular foods and…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/light-meals
- Owner
- hashtag233
- Published
- 2022-07-29
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2022-09-01
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15