So, should be fixed now. Was able to replicate it, and it didn't happen again (though in a use case which should not happen during normal play, the game started lagging hard for a few seconds. Have to still look into that.
If you want to catch up to your progress, I enabled a cheat code. It will give you some items and unlock all actions upon using it (can also use it multiple times to give you more items). You can also speed up the game ten times. Items disappear on loop, and you can enable/disable the speedup. You can force a loop by disabling auto on all food! This code will stay up for around 20 hours I guess. Code is below.
Just hold ctrl and press c