Block Autonomous Eating and Cooking Temporarily

Requires Lot51 Core Library

This mod adds a new shift+click cheat interaction on counters, fridges, stoves, and dining tables to block autonomous eating and cooking. This interaction will bring up a picker of nearby sims. You can select as many sims as you want and they will all be given hidden buffs to stop them from cooking or eating unless you direct them to do so or use the call to meal interactions. This way you can more easily have sims wait to eat together. When you no longer want this you can use the unblock interaction found in the same places as the blocking one. Again, you can select as many sims as you want and the buffs will be removed from all of them. The buffs will also be removed automatically if you reload the game or travel to a different lot.

Sometimes, particularly if they are very hungry, sims may get caught in a loop of attempting to queue up a cooking or eating interaction and then immediately canceling it because it's blocked. If this happens, just direct them to do something else or have another sim interact with them and they should snap out of it.