I feel like it would be really interesting if in the sims we actually have to stock the sims fridges and cabinets in order to make meals. It would feel more realistic and you would have to make time in your sim's days to go out for food.You could have loads of different types of shops also, like smaller convenience stores where you can buy milk, chocolate and a few fruits and vegetables. Then you have the larger supermarkets with everything including stuff like pet food if you have cats and dogs. Online shopping could also be a feature where you have a lorry deliver all the food outside of your sims house (but this would cost more). There could also be markets where the food is cheaper and maybe nicer so the sim gets a moodlet from eating it?Then if your sim was having a party, you could buy a premade cake and you would have to stock up on drinks, food and all that kind of stuff.If this wasn't a feature you wanted, you could also have the option to turn it off in the game (I think this would be either an expansion pack or game pack).I know that there are mods for stuff like this but I don't like having them in my game as they can slow it down.Thoughts on this?

Yeah exactly. I feel that shopping is such an important part of life and growing up that sims should have a 'food bill'. It would make looking after kids more realistic too as you have to feed them and buy special food for them.

I miss groceries! Buying eggs, cheese and meat for ingredients added such realistic flavor to the game. I hate how the only meat options we have came with Eco Lifestyle and are either faux meat cubes or...bugs. Who...who eats bugs???

It would be nice if the bugs could be bought in the grocery store, for a higher price than having the bug farm. They just allowed them to be sold/served where I live, very interesting.

I felt this since Launch. I hated that you can have an empty fridge, and still be able to cook things.I want the whole experience, Which is why Farm Living Expansion Pack Cultivate, grow, evolve, we can already mass harvest crops, within hours (Sim time) we'd have thousands of crops, to sell.Some of those Items we can use to cook, other types of food and distribute.My farming family, Owns essentially the Country Side of Windenburg, and they have turned it all into farm land.they also have a couple of Grocery Stores and a restaurants in the city.right now I'm just using groups to work everything out, I have a Gardening and Harvesting Club, a Chef's & Baker's Club.What I really want is more of reason to Mass harvest crops.Nectar MakingAle BrewingNew Crops like, Wheat, Barley. Honestly I just want to build a Wheat or Corn Maze from scratch!I have a vineyard going, I have an Orchard, Brazen Lotus's CC plants too. I now have oranges and corn.With Seasons, Holidays/Events, Traditions.I'd like to See Eating Contests, Bake offs, Wine Tasting, Beer Chugging, Floral Arrangement challenges, Bobbing for apples.Play Tug of war, Maybe some olympic games, some medieval style like Jousting, Rodeo.

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smilepanda209
4 years ago
Yeah exactly. I feel that shopping is such an important part of life and growing up that sims should have a 'food bill'. It would make looking after kids more realistic too as you have to feed them and buy special food for them.
Minai9295
Rising Novice
4 years ago
I agree!!
TruthGamer96
4 years ago
I miss groceries! Buying eggs, cheese and meat for ingredients added such realistic flavor to the game. I hate how the only meat options we have came with Eco Lifestyle and are either faux meat cubes or...bugs. Who...who eats bugs???
DonroaAkashu
New Spectator
4 years ago
It would be nice if the bugs could be bought in the grocery store, for a higher price than having the bug farm. They just allowed them to be sold/served where I live, very interesting.
MasonGamerBoi
4 years ago
I felt this since Launch. I hated that you can have an empty fridge, and still be able to cook things.
I want the whole experience, Which is why Farm Living Expansion Pack
Cultivate, grow, evolve, we can already mass harvest crops, within hours (Sim time) we'd have thousands of crops, to sell.
Some of those Items we can use to cook, other types of food and distribute.
My farming family, Owns essentially the Country Side of Windenburg, and they have turned it all into farm land.
they also have a couple of Grocery Stores and a restaurants in the city.
right now I'm just using groups to work everything out, I have a Gardening and Harvesting Club, a Chef's & Baker's Club.
What I really want is more of reason to Mass harvest crops.
Nectar Making
Ale Brewing
New Crops like, Wheat, Barley. Honestly I just want to build a Wheat or Corn Maze from scratch!
I have a vineyard going, I have an Orchard, Brazen Lotus's CC plants too. I now have oranges and corn.

With Seasons, Holidays/Events, Traditions.
I'd like to See Eating Contests, Bake offs, Wine Tasting, Beer Chugging, Floral Arrangement challenges, Bobbing for apples.
Play Tug of war, Maybe some olympic games, some medieval style like Jousting, Rodeo.
Bookworm2009189
4 years ago
Omg, that would be sooo cool to have supermarkets. They could create a shopping list!
suuudeeee
4 years ago
If sims were able to go grocery shopping, I’d love to see them push around shopping carts and have the ability to put toddlers in them if they came along.
DonroaAkashu
New Spectator
4 years ago
I would really like that. I understand that the game is made to be easy for reasons, and it is a relief that it is not driven by grinding; but if it were an option to have some features be more challenging, that would be great. It would make it worth while to have sims garden for instance.
Movotti
New Spectator
4 years ago
Supermarkets? No thanks.

Farmers markets? Yes please!
Or even an old style corner shop.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f0/1b/c2/f01bc24520d0b70e6bb14d3da9eb48e6.jpg

Or an Aussie style milk bar.
They sold newspapers, milk, bread, ice creams, milkshakes, soft drinks, chocolate bars, pies, pasties, sausage rolls...

https://www.monsterchildren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/monster-children-eamon-donnelly-milk-bars-1-1.jpg

And the larger ones were more like this:
Sort of like a cafe, but still selling news papers, milk, and bread.
https://museumstudiesmacquarie.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/001golden_star.jpg
https://cdn1.neoskosmos.com/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MilkBar3.jpg

No, not sort of like a cafe, they were a cafe, this is where Australia's cafe culture began.
smilepanda209
4 years ago
"Movotti;c-17780747" wrote:
Supermarkets? No thanks.

Farmers markets? Yes please!
Or even an old style corner shop.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f0/1b/c2/f01bc24520d0b70e6bb14d3da9eb48e6.jpg

Or an Aussie style milk bar.
They sold newspapers, milk, bread, ice creams, milkshakes, soft drinks, chocolate bars, pies, pasties, sausage rolls...

https://www.monsterchildren.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/monster-children-eamon-donnelly-milk-bars-1-1.jpg

And the larger ones were more like this:
Sort of like a cafe, but still selling news papers, milk, and bread.
https://museumstudiesmacquarie.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/001golden_star.jpg
https://cdn1.neoskosmos.com/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MilkBar3.jpg

No, not sort of like a cafe, they were a cafe, this is where Australia's cafe culture began.

I really like this is would be great to see some traditional corner shops and also the cafe looking shops as well as supermarkets. Guess you could have a mix of modern and old-fashioned buildings. :)