Off the grid issues/suggestions

Other things I haven't seen mentioned here.

• The fire pit that comes with Island Living has five big meals that can keep you fed and raises the Cooking skill
  
  
• The ICEBox Fridge, once upgraded (and under a roof, rookie mistake) works as well as most any other fridge.
  
  
• The Antique stove gives 2 meals so you can get the Grilled Cheese Challenge. Not sure how to get Gourmet Cooking in that context.
  
  
• I bought the cheapest laptop and went to the library to procure what I needed to get by parts and medicine wise. (Could be immersion breaking for some, for whatever reason not all options are available on the library computers. There is a table in the kids room that I could place a laptop on.)
  
  
• Fishing got me started and gardening got me a decent Money plant so funds weren't an issue (after you get the 5k points).
  
  
• Two residents formed a club to counteract the various +1 tense moodlets.
  
  
• Lastly, it may be a bit of a departure from living "off the grid" but I got a store from the Gallery to sell my artifacts and there I got most of the other skills that are impossible to get "off the grid". Many you cannot use, but head out to a club and other places and you can get most everything else in the game.
  

My starting load-out was a tent, cooler, fire-pit, basic trash bin, default mailbox, Cheapest laptop and an easel . (Used the gym until I got sorted).

Sorry if I repeated anything.