Sims cancel eating Leftovers (No drink)

I did not have this problem after the last update 3 weeks ago, but after the latest update, suddenly, my sims won't eat their leftovers. In one house, probably because of the layout of the kitchen, which is kind of tight, they don't even leave the fridge, just toss the plate down and do the T thing for a second, and the eat action is gone. If you try to get them to pick up the plate and eat it )by clicking the plate and selecting eat whatever the meal is, they pick it up then it's back on the floor again and the queued action is gone. In a couple of cases, after several tries, the plate just disappears, or else it's on a shelf somewhere and I won't find it until it's rotten.  This is ridiculous. I always put food in the fridge, particularly when one of the sims is culinary career, as in this household. That one does all the cooking and everyone else eats leftovers. So, now, I can't feed them.

This save has no mods or custom content because I started it after I got Eco Living. But I like to build my whole environment and fill it with my own sims then rotate through households, playing each household a few days at a time. So, since Eco Living, I've almost got my new save built out and populated.  Since I had to restart after the initial Eco Living bugs and could no longer play a save file I've been playing for years, I'm really very PO'd at the moment. Eco Living is so buggy It's nearly impossible to play. I'm not nearly the only one who uses the build the whole environment out and play rotating households set up, not by a long shot. It's a lot of work, but it's the way I've played since the first Sims game, and I got the Sims when it first came out. I'm really, really tired of the difficulties that have occurred after all the latest new packs and even updates. What's happened with your testing? Are you not play testing? Or do you just test so superficially that you don't notice any of these huge glaring bugs?