🤔 I'm afraid I don't understand what all the fuss is about not having strawberries unless you grow them, because every recipe just automatically lets you cook it by just clicking on it, so you buy all the items you need for any recipe by just choosing that recipe 🙂 (with the exception a couple of recopies that came with the Outdoor Retreat Game Pack, in which you actually have to go to a National Park and fish for the correct fish in order to make that recipe) ! Yes, food is better with home grown produce, but if you don't want to garden, then just have your Sims raise their cooking skill and the food quality will improve! :eahigh_file: To ensure you don't get a bad moodlet from bad tasting food, just have your Sim only cook recipes that are 1 skill level below their current level. While you can't do this until they are at Cooling level 2, it takes no time to get up to that level, especially if you have them watch the Cooking Channel every time they watch TV! 😎 They have fun and learn at the same time! Also, if you don't want to garden, just collect plant from around the neighborhood from time to time -- that way you have at least some produce on hand, but don't have to spend time watering and weeding! It is in reality, free food! 🥳
I was also going to mention what @PhysicalDelete mentioned: if you have the City Living Expansion Pack, then go to the San Myshuno town and visit the Spice Market neighborhood where there is usually a produce stand where you can buy many of the produce in the game! You can also visit the Romance Festival and the Spice Festival when they are in town and harvest from the plants they have at the festival, including a few rarer items! 😇
There really is no need for grocery stores in the game, except to mimic our real lives! 😉
I hope this helps all of you!
No offense, Puglove, but look here. Just because you are not interested in grocery stores, does not mean others are not. The thread is a question about why we cannot have them, not opinions on why we don't need them. Don't get me wrong, I'm not too particular about grocery stores myself, it's cute but I have no need for it. That said, there are things that I really do need and want and so I can completely respect what others want.
Again, I do not mean this to sound offensive, but telling those why they don't need what they want is offensive. I thought you may wish to understand this because some people really do not know how it sounds.
@magnoliasouth, I'm sorry I didn't see your reply to me earlier, and I'm sorry I upset you! 😢 I didn't mean to be rude.😞🤭 I might be missing something, but I was confused about why so many people want to have their Sim buy produce in a grocery store when all of the produce for recipes are purchased at the refrigerator or stove. 🤔 I stated this because I believe that is EA's thoughts on it too. In the past (I think it was Sims 1 or 2) many people found it tedious to keep having to go to the store for food in your game and then cook it at home, so I think that is why EA chose to do it this way.😉 There are some grocery-like produce stands with City Living and the "catch of the day" seafood stands with Cats& Dogs. And you can get some produce from plants to harvest at the Spice Festival and the Romance Festival (but the Romance Festival has mostly flowers). I understand this is not quite what y'all would prefer, but at least it is something. 🙂
Is the reason most people want a grocery store in game just to mimic real life, or is there some other reason I'm not getting? 🤔 I was hoping someone could explain why they were needed/wanted.
Now while I don't think it is necessary to have grocery stores in game, if everyone else wants them I won't be upset! 😎 I just don't understand it, is all. And actually, I would rather run a grocery store in the game than visit one! 😉
