Yeah, there doesn't seem to be any work-around but like MarianT said your sim still gets the positive food moodlet after eating. The only thing it does is slow your sim eating times down a fraction... all the fanning! Dare say it will be patch fixed soon.
*edit: Time to eat doesn't seem effected actually has all the other idle animations have been dropped in place of the 'fanning'. So really, apart from the wrong animation being played, eating is pretty much normal.