[FIXED] Sims cook but don't autonomously eat/ cook more/ eat quick meal instead
by Ardnaxela56Original Post
I'm having the same issues. Its sooo frustrating trying to get a sim to finish cooking one meal. they stop mid prep and grab new ingredients from the fridge. repeat.
@TeahouseFox
I had the bar issue also! Had to disable autonomy on that, too. As for the dishes, I've found it's easier to just drag them to the trash can myself than it is to fight with the sims to get them to follow instructions, since it seems autonomous actions usually can't be canceled from queues unless you reset the sim and player directed actions are the ones that get dropped from queues more often than not.
I seem to recall something being mentioned about "fixing" a "problem" with sims getting endless leftovers from the fridge in the November patch notes. Still scratching my head as to how this was supposed to be a "fix" for something that was never broken to begin with.
Another note on the dishes...sometimes they'll drop the plates if there's a dirty dish in a location that isn't routable. If you have any shelves on the wall, check those. For whatever reason, they can put dishes on those shelves after they've eaten, but they cannot take them back off the shelves again. Same applies to the tops of half walls. I've also found dirty dishes just magically floating between different levels of the house, somewhere between the ceiling of the first level and the floor of the second. I've found that when sims drop the dirty piles of dishes, it's usually because there's a dirty dish in a location where they can't retrieve it. They can put it there, but they can't retrieve it...and that causes the clean up sequence to drop from their queues.
I've also found that periodically replacing stoves, dishwashers, and every other appliance affected by cooking/eating/dishwashing helps a bit. You know how sims like to drop that "cook" action to start cooking something else? If they were baking something in the oven, it'll get left there to spoil, and they view that as a dirty dish that can't be retrieved, which causes them to drop the dishes they did collect when clean up gets dropped from their queue. Ovens are affected the same way microwaves and grills are when it comes to sims abandoning one meal to begin cooking another one.
I have a couple of mods I use to keep the game in a playable state - one allows me to configure autonomy (and disable specific autonomous actions on specific items) and the other adds cheat functionality to the UI for ease of use.
Mods aside, fillmotive motive_Hunger is the best way to address the hunger need now, sadly. I always laugh to myself when they introduce new foods and recipes to the game. As if cooking and eating are even viable options anymore since they "fixed" it last November. 
