Wasting time I am afraid.

A simple rule for the thralls to only take food if they have no food at all in their inventories would suffice to fix the problem, but that rule seem to be hard to put into code.

Once the idea is to move away from the concept that thralls are “slaves”, more akin to “serfs” given you might rescue them, pay them, etc, it is funny that this problem was never addressed.

Me, I have modded myself out of that problem a long time ago, but I still use the item of the pot for some of its “inherent features”, like making food last longer. However anytime there are thralls around it, they will keep taking food from it quickly and letting it spoil in their inventories while consuming very little of it.