I know. It's still funny.

Oh! That's not very polite... *laughs*

Well, maybe she just wanted to eat as a compensation for the sadness she was feeling. *lol*

LOL! Yes, perhaps the "different groceries" she was looking for are ice cream and brownies

They should totally put in a 5th category of groceries - junk food! You could use it as a reward once in awhile, or you could give it to them every time to make them lazy, slothful and unhealthy.

I praise mine for sending emails too and get at least one email every time I have my families open, but I rarely get this message and since you posted this I've been trying all sorts of things with various families trying to figure out why. The short answer is, I have no idea. XP

I tried switching back to regular groceries, no luck. I tried switching to one bag per family per day, no luck. I even switched one family back to one bag of plain old grains per day and still had no luck. The only thing that seemed to work was when I totally stopped giving them groceries. I got the message at the beginning of one email one day. I gave them one bag of regular grains and didn't get another message about groceries.

I used to get it quite often in first gen on all families and always attributed it to the fact that I would buy them mostly grains until they had enough money for the first workroom upgrade. It always seemed to stop once I began my habit of buying them all four food groups once per day. I do that for each family, every day, usually in organics, no matter how much food they have.

When I get the tiny white ants, $5 trainer or the power outage events, I always take them as a chance to clean out the food and get rid of extra cash (if the family has over 100K in the bank.) So I can't say if that has any relation to the grocery email or not.

So, it seems as long as I keep giving them food before I close them, they stay happy with the grocery situation and don't really care what kind they get. Yet, I still remember when they were new and getting only grains they complained.

I've done something that may help.

I've got one of those events about a power failure and I chose to get rid of all the food I had in the fridge.

When my fridge got empty, I bought the 4 types of organic groceries and from that moment on I'm just buying organics.

They sent me lots of mails, but none complaining about the food.

I don't know if it has something to do with they liking organics most.

Well, I suppose that would explain why mine don't complain. I buy them one bag of each type of organics per day. Maybe they just had so many stockpiled that they didn't complain when I switched them back to regular for a while. :P

Does anyone know how much the refrigerator holds, or it is limitless? I have had over 2000 of groceries at once, but then I let it get down to about 800-1000 before adding more, though I may buy things when they are on sale and hold them in the tray until needed.

That's a good question!

I always stop buying food when it reaches 2000 and then start again when it goes down to 800 or something (I have this crazy thought that the food is going to be old and rotten)

But I think they do have a magical fridge - there is always more room for food in there. It's something like Felix the cat's bag.

Yeah, I've wondered about the capacity of the fridge, too, so I just bought one of my millionaire families a BUNCH of groceries. They're up to over 5000 units of food, and the game let them have them. I won't have to worry about *that* fam for a while!