Food...

[slashersaw82]

I don't think i'm far into the game and i'm trying as much as i can to find food... I don't know if it's my character's traits, but he's so much hungry compared to the beginning. Any areas i should explore early on? And i'm still in the melee weapons state. And what can i do with that toxic meat i get from creatures?

[Yaridovich]

You can cook the meat. Remember when you first reach the Cafeteria and you see a piece of cooked meat on a frying pan? That's the game hinting that you can use pans to cook meat.

As you level up Cooking, you'll get access to soups, which are a much better source of sustenance.

[dustin1280]

Cook meat and once you get cooking level 3.

Make meat stew -- Pecarry chop, Alien drumstick, Pest rump

Easy to procure supplies (butcher dogs) and you get 8 servings per pot of soup.
Well technically 4 servings but you get two "uses" out of each serving so effectively 8 uses total per pot.

[Anker]

At some point you can make portable cooktops, with two places for frying pans or pots each. Though once you get into soups your food supplies get much better. Soups require water, which there's plenty of it lying around, but an unlimited amount of it can be produced, slowly, by boiling tainted water- You'll get that either from the fountain in the main area just outside of the cafeteria, or the pool up the stairs to the right and right again. 4 pots of tainted water will give 1000ml of purified water, or a full pot. You can hold a water container like a water cooler in your hand and fill it entirely from the tainter water to dispense to your boiler pots.

Later into the game around the third section, a better way to purify water exists, but this will tide you over for now. As you progress, hunting the weak aliens around the first sector for food becomes trivial.