It might just be my imagination, but I feel like this is even worse in an apartment. I love decorating my sims' homes, like, a LOT, but I had to take out the hanging pot rack thing in one of my sims' apartment because of this. He could be starving and he would still stop eating to stare at the pot rack. I had it hanging over the bar that separated the kitchen from the living room and he didn't have a dining table, so he ate there and the temptation hanging right over his head was too much, lol.