So what kinda food does eggmam have? Nutritional paste? Boiled chicken? I'd assume he eats better, but i'm not sure how efficient it would be to gather 2 separate food sources for the only 2 creatures that need to eat

I remember reading somewhere that Eggman likes eating more than three meals a day, so I think the same holds true for him in Beyond Oblivion (and I'm going to refer to him from here on out as Robotnik, since he never got the Eggman moniker and that makes it easier to keep things clear; sorry I didn't do that in previous posts). He has at least four big meals a day for himself, and they're proper meals, covering all food groups. I don't think he seasons his food at all though; he's like your standard colonizer in that he decimated / took over all these islands and all these different places where there were all sorts of different spices and then he doesn't use them. Like he probably salts his food (and maybe oversalts it), but that's it. So while he eats meat and starches and vegetables and whatever, none of it's seasoned properly. No spicy food at all. I also think he probably snacks on plenty of junk food and stuff throughout the day too, especially when he's gaming. So his kitchen is stocked full of food for him. He gets whatever he wants.

Miles . . . does not. You know how a really spoiled child doesn't want to share anything? That's how Robotnik is. He's #1, everything is his first. He's not about to have a situation where the food that he wants is not available to him at all times. With that said though, if he lets Miles starve to death then he also loses his sysadmin. Like it does him no good if he brings Miles on to do behind-the-scenes stuff and then Miles dies and can't do them. So the order that Robotnik gives the kitchen robots is "give him whatever's left over." Like anything extra that's there, that's what Miles can have. Usually when Miles gets a meal, it is an actual meal; chicken and rice, or bread and soup, things like that. But like I said, it's not really flavorful because Robotnik doesn't really like spicy or flavorful things, and so the kitchen robots don't make spicy or flavorful things. So like the most flavorful thing Miles has had is whatever comes flavored naturally, like fruit. (And he also ate fruit on West Side Island, before Robotnik took him in. Fish too, probably.) Hence why the spicy chili was such a shock, albeit a good one; it's the first time he can ever remember tasting something that spicy and bold.

Oh, and once Starline joins the team, he would also just get whatever's left over, except he's an adult and can leave and get his own food, which he does. He eats three square meals a day. Miles, being 8, isn't in that position, hence "one meal a day if I finish my work" and all the malnourishment and stunted growth that goes with it.