I've never used SimPE before but from what I've read it's the way to go? I'd like to recatergorize some of my downloaded meals - my sims never want Kung Pao chicken for breakfast! I have a couple that need renaming too. Is there a tutorial somewhere that can talk me through it very slowly and clearly, as if trying to explain to a brain-damaged gerbil? I really struggle with this sort of thing!

There's a tutorial on how to disable food (i.e. make the Kung Pao chicken not show up in the breakfast menu) here: https://modthesims.info/t/581640 . I found it easy to understand, it gives clear step-by-step instructions.
Enabling it for different mealtimes works the same way as disabling them. This thread mentions how exactly to do it: https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=222202 , but the first link is a lot more detailed.

You're a star!! Thanks so much!

I don't suppose you know if it's possible to change the sound effects accompanying an individual dish prep is there? I have 'Yoghurt with fresh fruits' that's cloned from the cereal and it makes the 'dry cereal' sound which grates on me - I feel it should be something sloppier. Can it be switched with the sound from another dish?

Oh, also, I have a couple of custom foods where the serving plates don't empty, and I'd love to sort them. Is that possible?

Okay, definitely make a backup of the food before you try this, because I've never done this. The second link lists a bunch of other stuff you can do with your food, including how to change preparation type:



So you could change the yoghurt's preparation type, maybe chopping the fruit or mixing in a bowl (only one type seems to be allowed). I have no idea how you'd get rid of the sound effect while keeping the pour cereal animation though. I'm sure it's possible, but no idea how. Same for the plates.

Sorry to wake up this ancient thread, but it makes more sense than typing it all out anew! I must have got to grips with this nicely for removing dishes because Kung Pao Chicken is no longer an option for breakfast in my simmies' households, although they still enjoy it for dinner! However I'm now attempting to add my 'Loaded Potato Soup' dinner option to the lunch menu, and it's not working!

The thread Ovenhole linked to for that says

'Go to 'Function - Init - Menu' bhav and find a line like:
Quote:
[prim 0x0002] Expression (My [semi] attribute 0x0007 ("Menu Time Availability") Set Flag flag# Const 0x2005:0x02 (Value: 0x0002))

Replace, or insert more similar lines, for times. 0x01 is breakfast, 0x02 is lunch, 0x03 is dinner.'

And that's it. I don't know what I'm doing at all, so I just duplicated that line and changed the 0x03 in the duplicate to 0x02, clicked commit, saved and tried running the game. It's still not showing up. What am I doing wrong please?

It's also trying the tidy up my food pie menus a bit with having subcategories for Soups, Salads, Sandwiches etc. I can do this with the custom foods by uploading them to SimPE from Downloads, but how do I find the Maxis ones? Is it even safe to recatogorize them?

Can you show me a screenshot of the BHAV, please?

Hi Charity. Here it is. The highlighted one is the one I created.

The line before it is dinner? Try making the true target on that one 7.

Dinner is the one it's showing up for. I added the one to try and make it appear for lunch. Is it the lunch one that I should change the true target of? To 0x0007?

See the grey line beside your 'lunch'. It's telling you that nothing leads to it, so it will never be called. Set the true target of 'dinner' to 7, so it links to 'lunch'. Then it should work.