Stop making food when another sim is cooking!!!!!

Also annoying when you want to take the family out to dinner, but have to wait for someone to get home from work. There's not much you can do there except have everyone take a nap or set them to some other activity while waiting, but still have to watch the fridge lol. I'm fine with autonomous eating since it's not always easy to keep track of a big family's needs, but yeah, there's really no need for more than one sim to be cooking a meal at one time.

I've also noticed lately that when you rotate into a household the sims are always hungry & running for the fridge. That's also kind of annoying because I like to cheat the needs up first thing so I can first figure out where I'm at with that family. I kind of like it better when they were all running for the toilet.

Well the same could be said about that plate of fish tacos that was sitting there for several hours before another sim came along and took some.. why are they eating cold food instead of heating it up?

Although cold food bothers me, can you imagine how long it would take sims to eat if they heated their leftovers.

"GoldenBuffy;d-937902" wrote:
Is there a mod out there that stops sims from taking it upon themselves to make food when another sim is cooking? This really gets on my nerves and it's a waste of money. I mean, if they are so smart, why not recognize that someone else is about to feed you?!

Yes, yes there is a mod for that. Check out this mod by LittleMsSam: http://littlemssam.de/no-auto-food-grab-after-cooking/

Sim mom: *slaves away at stove making spaghetti and artisan bread for her family, and perfect quality chocolate soufflés for dessert*

Sim child: *eats yogurt from the fridge*

Sim dad: *eats leftover pancakes*

Other sim child: *eats cereal and gets approximately 87 glasses of orange juice for the purpose of placing said glasses strategically around the entire house to rot*

Me: Why you ungrateful, rude, little clusters of pixels....

This thread has me nodding so enthusiastically.
This stuff is the bane of my existence. I love having family meals and it’s so hard to do successfully! Whenever I do have the whole family eating at the same time I always take a screenshot of it, but of course right after I unpause after taking a pic, one of them stands up :s

Ugh, so true! We need this addressed in a patch like now.

It drives me crazy, especially when I play large households. I now use the autonomy tuner in MCCC to stop it. They aren't allowed to cook autonomously anymore. When the leftovers are gone, I'll pick one to cook a party meal. If one of them gets hungry and I click to autosolve, I can tell when they were planning on cooking a fresh meal despite there being leftovers in the fridge. They'll just stand there and wave their hands. It's a bit of extra work to click on "grab leftovers" when this happens if they don't grab the leftovers autonomously (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't), but it's far less annoying than them all raiding the kitchen attempting to cook single plate meals while one sim is trying to make a family or a party size meal.

"Finvola;c-16413624" wrote:
It drives me crazy, especially when I play large households. I now use the autonomy tuner in MCCC to stop it. They aren't allowed to cook autonomously anymore. When the leftovers are gone, I'll pick one to cook a party meal. If one of them gets hungry and I click to autosolve, I can tell when they were planning on cooking a fresh meal despite there being leftovers in the fridge. They'll just stand there and wave their hands. It's a bit of extra work to click on "grab leftovers" when this happens if they don't grab the leftovers autonomously (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't), but it's far less annoying than them all raiding the kitchen attempting to cook single plate meals while one sim is trying to make a family or a party size meal.

I'll have to look in the settings and look for that! I don't normally mind that. It drives me crazy though when guests come over and want to hang out in my fridge and everyone is getting food one right after another. I never can get to the fridge myself to make the cake or the group meal that has to be served. Now I make the cake before hand, but since the group meal is a task to earn the gold I have to wait till the party starts. However, the guests always get to the fridge before me.

I usually have one of the parents cook dinner while the kids are doing their homework. The other parent can help, or do their work stuff. Or I have one roommate cook dinner while the other one is doing the Daily Task. These things keep them away from the kitchen even when the hunger goes yellow. If one adult is home by themselves, I have them cook dinner early, about 2ish, sometimes. Someone can set the table, if you have Parenthood, and just have a minute or two to stall. Breakfast is always made in Party size while the others are in the shower, getting Focused, what have you. It just gets to be muscle memory after while. Even then, tho, it still occasionally happens, so I just explain it by saying that they didn't like what was being cooked. "OK, sure, be late for school/work/bedtime, burn down the kitchen, whatever you want, you are a Free Sim..." :smirk:

Yesterday I was playing away and someone came to the door IRL, a package delivery. I got back and saw that I'd left the game running. Mom and her teen son had gotten themselves to bed, and son had gotten himself up for school. Not so miraculous, but get this. He had eaten leftover eggs and toast, not spaghetti, and was also Focused for school, I guess by browsing Simipedia, which I tell him to do every morning. He was also working on his school project, and his Needs were green, at 7:30. Unbelievable!! Mom, thankfully whom I haven't yet given a career, was still in bed and had to pee really badly. Nice one, Mom... :tongue: