Captain, why does this food taste like poop?
A steady regimen of:
Balance of Nature
Relief Factor
My Pillows
...AND the promise of a cruise to the Holy Land with Dennis Prager upon return from Mars or wherever.
Simple: microwave, water, and ramen noodles.
Spam...
When they run out, just eat each other...
A deep space food source using the best technology is doomed to failure. Just one damn bacteria or virus that will harm your food source kills the mission. Even if the spacecraft were totally free of pathogens a food source
have benevolent bacteria to survive. They do mutate. They can become pathogenic.
A self contained environment of limited diversity is doomed to failure. Just ask the Irish that survived the “Potato Famine.”
Muslim outreach means all space food will be halal.
Maybe an improved Tang maker?
I am somehow reminded of Vladimir Voinovich’s novel “Moscow 2042” where true communism would be achieved when primary matter (food) equalled secondary matter (feces).
Macaroni & cheese cups.
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