Ideas
No mods. No CC. PC.
I don't know if it's a design choice by the developers but hear me out:
If a sim lives alone and eats alone, they eat at the dining table no problem, but if there's another sim in the house either a visitor or a housemate, they walk over to where they happen to be sitting (watching TV, reading etc.) even if it's in the living room or whatever then they sit beside them in the couch / other chair where they proceed to eat with their plate in hand. They aren't even chatting with each other while the other sim grabs a serving from the fridge or the counter. You eat at the dining table even if other people are doing their own thing in their own spaces. This never was a thing in Sims 1 and 2.
Same here - No mods, no cc, PC I'm having the same eating habits. I've started telling them to sit on a dining chair at the table, but I have to be quick or they will march off.
- In Sulani the lot Admiral's wreck, I made the wrecked boat into a gym. The hungry sim will take their plate and walk out of the house to the underground gym where 1 or 2 sims are working out.
- The sim will grab a leftover and stand in front of the fridge to eat instead of sitting at the counter or dining table.