Cooking fresh

It’s a bit of a challenge but it’s really enjoyable. Plus side you can buy any ingredients you need from either the grocery stall or having it delivered to your home. You have to buy meat, flour and sugar but can make everything else including cheese and bread to use in recipes.

Bees honey at least makes one of the animal treats and the honey cake. Haven’t noticed anything else though.

"Akl500P;c-17942371" wrote:
It’s a bit of a challenge but it’s really enjoyable. Plus side you can buy any ingredients you need from either the grocery stall or having it delivered to your home. You have to buy meat, flour and sugar but can make everything else including cheese and bread to use in recipes.

Bees honey at least makes one of the animal treats and the honey cake. Haven’t noticed anything else though.

Wish we could use honey to substitute sugar and you can get meat from animals. And if we got wheat in this pack then we could make flour without buying it.

I enjoyed having to buy groceries again like the sims 2, except it's more involved. Reminds me of having to need ingredients in a Sims 2 spinoff game on console long ago where you'd need ingredients to make meals.
As above said, wish there were a few more recipes that called for honey or sugar substitute. That and would like to just add honey to certain dishes just for extra sugar rush. Even colored eggs and particular ingredients are useful.
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Thus far, been enjoying the Simple Living lot trait so much been applied tot a lot of households if not all that I play. Things like fishing has become a lot more useful and meaningful for my sims, especially the ones that live off the grid. Definitely more of a struggle with off the grid with sims using what they grow to eat and selling, but loving it as it makes for a lot of busy work for sims as well as sims being able to have more things to spend more money on their lively hood. Just very immersive.

Kinda hope they expand a little more on it as I'd like my sims to buy more ingredients and such for things like their coffee/tea makers and things for their quick meals. Had used SRSLY overhaul mod for food about a month ago and enjoyed it, so I was really happy to see grocery shopping making a comeback.

I have only played a little, but I am loving it so far! I played my couple in Windenburg - they do not farm, but I still thought they should not have free food so I get them to order groceries.

The only sad thing is that they don't actually take the groceries and put them in the fridge. Once the delivery guy has dropped them off, you get the option to unpack them but your sim just gives it a swipe and they are magically gone 'into the fridge'. I would have liked to have seen an extra animation where they take the bag to the fridge and open the door to unpack them, like in TS2.

I love it, having a simple life and off the grid while having animals and a garden is hard work, which is very realistic and I really love to see my sim struggle :lol: I have played her for about 20 sim days and on only two ocassions she ventured out of her farm XD Her diet is mainly fruit salad and egg toasts :D

"kaiwrysims;c-17942689" wrote:


You mean recipes that call for sugar ut will count honey as sugar? Because I only see it asking for sugar not sugar or honey

I wasn't saying that they count it as sugar only that I agreed with what you said and would like the option to have a substitute for honey as well for the sugar substitute. :smile:

I'm enjoying it, but my sim isn't. She is broke and has subsisted on raw carrots and peas she grew herself for a couple of days. :D She doesn't have chickens yet.

"kaiwrysims;c-17942386" wrote:

"Akl500P;c-17942371" wrote:
It’s a bit of a challenge but it’s really enjoyable. Plus side you can buy any ingredients you need from either the grocery stall or having it delivered to your home. You have to buy meat, flour and sugar but can make everything else including cheese and bread to use in recipes.

Bees honey at least makes one of the animal treats and the honey cake. Haven’t noticed anything else though.

Wish we could use honey to substitute sugar and you can get meat from animals. And if we got wheat in this pack then we could make flour without buying it.

I agree about the honey, but you can get meat by 'trading' the animals. I think it's under the Action menu. I hope they patch it so we can also use the cricket flour.

"Yautjagirl;c-17942731" wrote:
I love it, having a simple life and off the grid while having animals and a garden is hard work, which is very realistic and I really love to see my sim struggle :lol: I have played her for about 20 sim days and on only two ocassions she ventured out of her farm XD Her diet is mainly fruit salad and egg toasts :D

Same here! I'm playing with long seasons, and my sims have been at it for about three sim weeks. I have no idea if the sprinkler system works on off-grid lots so I was extra cautious. My sims were making salads until they reached about level three!

It's very slow to make money right now from the farm. I don't mind it at all, and am actually enjoying it. I always planned on upgrading to a larger lot/farm once my sims earns enough, but I think it will take much longer than I anticipated.

"IceyJ;c-17943212" wrote:

"kaiwrysims;c-17942386" wrote:

"Akl500P;c-17942371" wrote:
It’s a bit of a challenge but it’s really enjoyable. Plus side you can buy any ingredients you need from either the grocery stall or having it delivered to your home. You have to buy meat, flour and sugar but can make everything else including cheese and bread to use in recipes.

Bees honey at least makes one of the animal treats and the honey cake. Haven’t noticed anything else though.

Wish we could use honey to substitute sugar and you can get meat from animals. And if we got wheat in this pack then we could make flour without buying it.

I agree about the honey, but you can get meat by 'trading' the animals. I think it's under the Action menu. I hope they patch it so we can also use the cricket flour.

Oh yeah ik I meant to say that we can get meat from animals, not that I wish we could.

And I made a post abt the honey thing on answers hq and someone also suggested cricket flour. I don't think I tried EL recipes yet but I don't remember what cricket flour is used for. Maybe for the specific bug meals.