Sims cancel grabbing food action

I was playing with my current household, which consists of 4 toddlers, 1 child, 1 young adult, and 1 adult. I had put a family serving of food on their dining table, but my Sims kept resetting instead of grabbing food (someone else said their Sims can't grab any food from the table, fridge, counter, you name it). I checked; it wasn't a mod issue by testing mod-free. I also tested it in another household, and they could grab food (that was before I removed my mods).