Drop them on the breakfast bar to get them to prepare a meal Sweetheart! When the kids reach 14 they can cook too. It seems that I've had more luck with training them to cook than with the adults. I guess it's because the adults have their careers on their minds.

Yeah, me too!

Ha, as soon as I finished reading this thread I clicked back to the game and...

It seems to me like almost whenever I come back into the game after having been away (even an hour later), the peeps food bars are down to half full and one of them is having to make a meal. Is this happening to anyone else? That seems a little extreme to me.

Also, I've noticed that after making the meal, they hardly ever sit down to eat it. It seems like it should be pretty much automatic to sit down and eat it after making it (and all the other family members should come and do the same, which they usually don't).

If you want them to sit down and eat more reliably, train them!

The fed bar in the middle is about right, generally. You don't walk around all day stuffed full of food, do you? Earlier builds where they were always >80% fed was not really working as we wanted.

When one leaves the breakfast bar I look at the fed bar and it is not all the way over (100%). Do I keep putting them up to the breakfast bar to eat until the fed bar is full (100%)?

Thanks much!

If you want them to be completely full, you can sit them down to a meal as often as you like.

Isn't it amazing that you keep the well fed and I mean constantly full and you don't see any chubbies. I want this diet!

LOL Margi! Me Too!

Thanks Lady, I noticed that each time they get up from a stool 20 is subtracted from the fridge.

I think the problem is that a lot of us (the players) are interpreting a full fed bar as meaning "well fed" whereas Arthur intended it to mean overly fed or overly stuffed.

I think it's pretty clear from his post above that a half full fed bar is normal for the majority of the day, with greater than that being normal for just after a meal. If the bar is totally full, you've just made them completely gorge themselves.

I have to admit, going straight from the first version of the game to the 0.05 update, this was the biggest shocker for me. But as soon as I saw Arthur's reply here, I felt awful for my lil peeps and stopped stuffing them immediately. I'm having a lot more fun now that I'm not so stressed about "starving" them and see the "fed" bar as and indicator of "stomach fullness" rather than how "well fed" they are.