So I went through all the regular cooking recipes, gourmet cooking, baking (oven and cupcake machine), experimental, grilled, and sulani-specific. My sim doesn’t know many City Living recipes.
There is an avocado dish that doesn’t require avocado. There’s a sausage & peppers recipe that doesn’t require the green pepper, which isn’t specifically called for in any recipe. The green beans and peas were nowhere to be found. Nothing calls for grapes, cherries, pears or blackberries that will not take a different fruit substitute - strawberries and apples will get it done. Pineapple and taro are useful in specific Sulani grill pit recipes, coconut useful for one cake, and these are so infrequently used by me, I won’t bother with them (or even kava because I can still purchase it to make it even with Simple Living on).
I’m also going to turn my oversized crops into preserves right away because they actually go father that way in recipes and the preserves won’t get used up in animal treats. I don’t know who makes salad out of jarred lettuce conserve, but apparently it can be done in the game.