Burned Food :p

My sims never go into the red with hunger as perfect meals are eaten twice a day which keeps them satisfied.
Meals are cooked well in advance so if one gets burned there's time to prepare another. My sims have eaten sushi or salad when time has been limited but pizza is out of the question as the quality is not to my liking. That goes for quick meals - they are NEVER eaten in my sim homes. My sims have ordered pizza on a few occasions but it's usually because a wish has been rolled and I am all about the wishes.
I know my play style wouldn't suit everyone but my sims are there for only one reason - genetics - so they live charmed lives ;)

Other:My SS is a natural cook so do not have to worry about it. :p Cooking is one of my favorite things in sims the more food stuff recipes and premium content the better.And having a nice kitchen is important even if the rest of the house is lame.

This is going to depend on the household. First of all, sims get 24 hours of the super strong, urgent Hunger moodlet before something horrible happens. In the rare cases where the entire household is that hungry all at once, the children and older can each have a piece of fruit, which I would always have in stock even if nothing else, to tide them over while a more permanent solution is worked on.

If the household has one sim with decent cooking skill available, then they take over. If not, then it's either pizza delivery or the Unskilled Klutz/Chef of the Day tries again with something that is impossible to burn like Autumn Salad or Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches. If those don't turn out edible either or maybe instead, if they can afford it, some or all of them go out to eat or hit up a local Bakery Display for some takeout platters as many of mine by way of the NRaas Cupcake mod carry regular full meals in addition to baked goods.

But no one eats burned, spoiled, or horrifying quality food unless there really is no alternative available or the sims preparing it have the Evil trait and are only pretending to be kind to their fellow household members and guests -- this remote possibility is why I had to go with "Other."

TCE to cheat the hunger motive would only be for when something unexpected and surprisingly wrong happened with the game, not typically to compensate for poor planning. :)

For me, burned food only happens in early games with new CAS sims. I always start my games with a single sim or perhaps 2 sims in a steady relationship, not with a family. One of those sims will eventually learn cooking. or learn enough advanced technology to get good meals out of the food synthesizer. By the time I have a large family with children and teens in the mix I have someone preparing perfect quality group meals way ahead of time. So essentially everyone always eats leftovers by that point. But, for that occasional new sim straight out of CAS who burns a meal, I have them trash the burnt food and either try cooking the meal again if they have time, or switch to autumn salad or a quick meal if they need to get to bed or work or class or something.

My sims don't get pizza if they burned a meal. Instead, they try again. But when I'm first starting out with a new sim, I almost always have them start with autumn salad for their first meal. Then they can eat leftovers of that if they burn subsequent meals, even for breakfast. By the time the leftovers are gone, they are high enough in cooking skill that they don't burn food anymore. Since every bookcase comes with a cooking skill book, they can read that if they need to, to get their skill up. If they don't have a bookcase, I'll send them to the library to read the book.

I'm probably screaming at them to just eat the food in front of them (in stronger, not forum friendly, wording) too. Like I don't care if it's burnt there's food in front of you just eat it. Stop whining. I have no patience for my sims incompetence.

Thankfully I don't have new sims very often to worry about. It's all long running games and everybody is very good at cooking after so long. Except Alex. He still can't even microwave hot dogs. But his wife is a fantastic cook so she does all the cooking. Or the butler when she's not around because the kids should not eat dad's cooking. :/.

If that happens, I rarely feed them with the horrifying food, instead, they eat fruit, quick meals (like juice, soup or cereal) or I have them wait for the cook to make something they know like autumn salad or a sandwich.

There is a rule in my sim households - You burn it, you eat it.

wow, so many people voted to give them the burnt food... i could never!

I remember a moodlet about wasting food if trashed. It doesn't apply to burnt food, but still, it stuck with me. In rl, when you burn food, you usually try to eat it anyway. ;P My sims aren't different.