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Pack Lunches... Is there a point?
RueSault
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I initially loved the idea of making sack lunches for my kids! Thought it would be cool to make them lunches for school.... Only to find out... they just sit in their inventory.... Am I doing something wrong? Or is there just no point other than aesthetics to a sack lunch?
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I have a club of geeks who gather in the library and spend a day on the computers. Maybe the lunches will be handy for them since there is no kitchen or no nearby grilling/seating area?
Even though they bring home spoiled lunch, I simply think of it as a child bringing home their lunch box, maybe with a half eaten snack left in it or whatever. I just think of it as "cleaning out their lunch box/throwing out their empty or almost empty lunch bag" when they come home!
In real life I used to babysit for 3 kids and they would all put their lunchboxes on the counter as soon as they came home and then I would clean each one out for them so they were ready to be packed for the next day. So when my sim kids get home I click&drag their lunch sacs to the counters and then mom empties & cleans them up!
Of course the easier thing is just skip breakfast like everyone usually suggests! Or maybe just have them eat a little something in the morning but not too much, maybe like half of a quick meal!
Sometimes it does come back rotten or uneaten and even with the sim being hungry. I equate that to when I used to hide some of the sandwiches that were packed for me back in the day. Lol.
If I have time and they seem like they'll get hungry, I send them with a sack lunch. I figure that it's available as an option for them but they don't always eat it.
I just have that sim skip breakfast and they always eat the sack lunch....if they go for the fridge, I just cancel that out and send them to do something else. Eating the sack lunch gives them a happy moodlet....so that's useful.
Time wise, you could substitute the kids drinking orange juice before school instead of writing in their journals as this would also give them a positive moodlet and help keep them healthy. For my families now, sitting down to a family breakfast is reserved for the weekends and they get pancakes and french toast. :)
I have a lazy, irresponsible, noncommittal sim in my household. Getting that one to advance in his career isn't easy so I try to stack as many happy buffs as possible before he goes to work since he will always have a -1 from working. I let him eat his packed lunch as breakfast so that he goes in with a +1 happy since it lasts for so many hours. Also he gets to brush his teeth. They don't have a coffe maker or any of those luxuries yet, still don't have four walls on their lot. So the grill, the zink and sky-gazing is what I got to work with.
Just a fun tidbit. The irresponsible, noncommittal sim came to my household from the wishing well. My main sim gave the well 1000 simoleons and that's the one we went home with. Should have had made that 5000 I guess. Gave him the irresponsible trait and the compassionate trait because he is one fun sim to be around. Just don't expect him to pay the bills or remember the grocery list while going to the store. This ought to be a interesting generation.
At least I don't use any mods or cc. Although, I haven't tried using the packed lunches since the latest patch, so perhaps I should check, if they got fixed, or if it was just a temporary problem. But anyway, the lunch not getting consumed only happens, if I have at least one sim in the household home and leaving the home lot, while the others are at school/work (if that sim stays home the whole day, the packed lunch gets eaten).
No mods or CC in my game.
If the Sim that packs the lunch has the Fresh Chef aspiration reward, the lunches don't go bad just like any other food s/he makes (I had my stay at home mom Sim finish that aspiration before Parenthood came out).
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
If your sims are going to work or school with a half-filled or less hunger bar and not eating the sack lunch, then someone is buggy with your game and you may need to repair. That doesn't make it a useless feature....it just means you, personally, have some sort of bug preventing the feature from being used. But for most of us, we can use the feature.
I've noticed the same thing. This, I think, it's something that is buggy about the lunches. If I send a sim to work with the sack lunch and then take the other sim off-lot during the time that the lunch would normally be consumed, then they don't eat the sack lunch....just like you said. If I stay on-lot, the other sim will eat the sack lunch while at work.