These terms are used when setting up a Group Diet. The default setting is Bulk diet prep.

These specific terms may change (they are somewhat confusing, so suggestions for better terms are welcomed!), but the concept will remain:

Bulk diet prep – this describes the most common way of preparing diets – all the foods for a given animal get prepared at the same time and placed together in one or more containers (bags, bins, etc.).

For example, Fluffy the unicorn (Diet #123) gets apples, bananas, and carrots in a small bin.

Assembly prep – this describes a method more commonly seen in aquarium or carnivore diets. In this case, all of the same FEEDS get prepped together. For example, all of the capelin for every diet (Diets #67, #68, #69, #90, #94 etc.), followed by all of the herring for every diet, then all of the rodents for every diet.