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[Relee]

In my last few forts I've noticed that my dwarves tend to leave most of the prepared food in the kitchen, letting it rot and stink up the joint. On my latest fort I decided to do a single cook order, and my cook made a stack of 9 plump helmet roast. And everybody left it there. At least five of my dwarves had food hauling turned on. Before long I got my first immigrant wave, and they all started doing the haul jobs that had stacked up, but none of them had done anything about the roasts. I took a look at the Jobs page and checked each individual job, and the job to put the plump helmet roasts into a stockpile didn't even appear on the list.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but it seems like it ought to at least appear on the list; or maybe something is preventing them from being hauled in the first place? I'm used to my dwarves taking a while to get to hauling what I want them to haul, but they almost always ignore food untill it rots. And often after it rots, they just leave it there instead of taking it to the garbage dump, despite my designating at least a couple peasants to trash only.

[Carcer]

I've had this happen as well, a lot. I've seen dwarves run into the kitchen to get seeds and stuff, but they just leave the food to rot.

[martinuzz]

You have to designate a food stockpile to accept the meals.

so [p](stockpile menu) --> [f](food) --> (designate an area and press <Enter>) --> [q] (inspect your new stockpile) --> (scroll to food) --> (b)  (block all) -->  (u) (allow prepared food).

If you already have a food stockpile: Prepared food is rather hard to store, so there won't fit much of it in a barrel. Maybe your food stockpile can't store the meals.
I always differentiate my stockpiles.
Expect to need much barrels and bins, though.

[Drakis]

i have a similar problem, except they properly moved the roasts to the stockpile, but refuse to eat them at all

see this thread: http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=25739.0

[Carcer]

I do have free food stockpile space, and barrels to put the meals in. They just don't seem to want to move it.

[Relee]

I typically have custom stockpiles just for storing prepared meals. There's a small one in the kitchen, and larger ones in my dining rooms. That way food haulers take the food to the dining rooms, and the dwarves don't have to go all the way to the kitchen to get something to eat. But they only haul a small percentage of the meals, and ignore most of them.

I thought maybe I didn't have enough food haulers, but then on a small fort I discovered that hauling jobs weren't being created for the food; even though there's plenty of places to put them.

I think there's a bug preventing the haul orders from being created properly in the job list, so the dwarves don't even consider them for hauling.

[Derakon]

I've only had problems with rotting meals when I set the cook on repeat create easy meals when I only have 7 dwarves. I tend to only have three food stockpiles -- one for all food, one for all seeds, and one for all drinks. Meals always get hauled out in a reasonable timeframe.