@imhotep168 Thank you for your graciousness and kind thanks! ❤️ And I'm so glad you found the information applicable in your case about the box use for food sorting making those items in the boxes not show up as ingredients needed for cooking meals. 🙌
You are correct. I can see the same thing in my game on this... In the case of the 'Cooking' dish options, I do see, with the Simple Living lot trait on, that I have variations in the amounts of ingredients required per dish serving sizes...
Whereas, if I choose 'Gourmet' dish options with the Simple Living lot trait on, I have only one amount(s) of ingredients required per dish and it will cook all three serving sizes for that same amount:
This may be intended as a 'special' condition for gourmet dishes, or this special condition may have been intended for all of the types of cooking/baking with Simple Living and it was an oversight to not apply it universally... or the other way around (probably most logical)... that this was an oversight in the case of gourmet dishes. I find that to be a happy accident if that is the case, as the gourmet dishes are my faves to have my sims cook, and I cook big as I have big households. 🙂
If this bothers you and you want to begin a separate thread to point that out (since that really is not the same thing as the greyed-out options that didn't make sense which we were also discussing here), it will be more likely to be noted correctly if the thread is not about greyed out meal options in the title. I don't know whether or not this would be accepted/kept as a bug report or would be feedback? Anyway, good luck, and enjoy the free 'bonus sized' meals! 🙌
@SheriGRThe recipe shown for each Gourmet dish is not good for three different size. It's only good for single server. Take Monte Cristo Sandwich for example, you could try to have only one meat, one bread in your personal inventory or refrigerator and takes out all the cheese to counter or other places (just don't leave it in the refrigerator or personal inventory.) In this situation, I believe the family and party sizes are greyed out.
Anyway, this might be an 'oversight', but it actually existed from the very beginning of game. We don't care too much about it because we money can solve it.
I am compiling a list of Gourmet Meal recipes. I also don't expect the EA will do anything on this issue if I create a new thread, because they are too busy. There are many more higher priority bugs they have to deal with. I still have to say thank you one more time for your time to help me work on this issue.
I just wanted to add, and maybe you have seen this already that when you try and cook a Gourmet Meal > Caesar Salad in a large format, let's say Family or Party Servings, there is no option to do so. It doesn't matter if you have lots of lettuce/lemon it doesn't register it. So it either has a hidden ingredient that I don't have at the moment in the fridge, or its a bug. The gourmet meal option is good game play for Snobby sims/Rich Sims, and because I'm currently playing both, it's just a drag on the game immersion. You would want all options to be clear from the get go. Should I not do the "Simple living" trait lot option in this case? No. All my playable lots have this trait because it's realistic. Ingredients don't just pop out of nowhere. Shame.. I mean a real shame.
@animatedoodle I just entered the same lot that I tested with earlier in the thread (please reference some of the background/info in my previous posts here). I checked and in their refrigerator (so that all have access to them) they have 2 lettuce, and obviously a lemon and a tomato (see screenshots). The Sim was able to make both a Caprese Salad and a Caesar Salad, if the required ingredients are available to the Sim (Lettuce+Tomato for Caprese; Lettuce+Lemon for Caesar). Also, if one of each of those ingredients is owned the Sim was had the option of making a Single serving, Family Size, or Party Size:
Do you have Mods/CC? If you do, it's possible that one of them is affecting your choices. It does not need to be a Mod/CC that would seem like it would conflict. If you have Mods/CC you can test as follows:
Hello, when I go to cook in my new save file it won't let me
