Simple living lot trait (quick meals)

"tagcheeta1992;d-992805" wrote:
Would it be possible in the future to give the meals in the quick meals menu ingredients and be able to use them with the simple living trait? Like buying orange juice for the glass of orange juice, milk and a box of cereal for the bowl of cereal, milk for the glass of milk, ect.

I always used the cereal and orange juice for my sim kids for breakfast because their sim parents were always at work.

I agree it is very annoying not to have any access to the Quick Meal menu at all in the Simple Living Lot Challenge. I too used to use cereal, milk and orange juice. I especially used to like to use milk along side certain meals or desserts so that the sim kids could eat and drink at the same time (I particularly liked to give them milk and cookies for a snack before bed so they would go to bed full and not be too hungry to sleep all night). Maybe the developers need to separate out those elements from the rest of the Quick Meals in their own menu, if sims have those ingredients. It's frustrating that sims now can't grab a glass of milk whenever they want, especially if the fridge is full of bottles of milk from freshly milked cows (and unlike the glass of milk sims don't seem able to drink a bottle of milk alongside eating a meal in the same way that they can with either milk or orange juice).

"simfriend1968;c-17953735" wrote:
It's frustrating that sims now can't grab a glass of milk whenever they want, especially if the fridge is full of bottles of milk from freshly milked cows (and unlike the glass of milk sims don't seem able to drink a bottle of milk alongside eating a meal in the same way that they can with either milk or orange juice).

That's a very good point about being able to eat and drink at the same time. Maybe at the very least, if they are unwilling to reconsider the role of quick meals in the simple living system, they could at least tweak the milk bottles so that they can be treated as a drink for the purposes of multitasking.

I do think in general they made a big mistake by eliminating the Quick Meals category entirely, instead of giving some logical thought to the individual choices. Milk should certainly still be there. So should the bowl of peas (particularly if you are actually growing peas/have them in the inventory), chicken nuggets if you have white meat, ham & cheese sandwich if you have bread, cheese, and meat, etc.

I think the quick meals are still available in the cooler that came with outdoor retreat pack.

So from highchairs you can still get quick meals with simple living but yes its kind of a pain you have to go that route

Yes please. My sims miss their morning cereals.

"Amapola76;c-17953758" wrote:

"simfriend1968;c-17953735" wrote:
It's frustrating that sims now can't grab a glass of milk whenever they want, especially if the fridge is full of bottles of milk from freshly milked cows (and unlike the glass of milk sims don't seem able to drink a bottle of milk alongside eating a meal in the same way that they can with either milk or orange juice).

That's a very good point about being able to eat and drink at the same time. Maybe at the very least, if they are unwilling to reconsider the role of quick meals in the simple living system, they could at least tweak the milk bottles so that they can be treated as a drink for the purposes of multitasking.

I do think in general they made a big mistake by eliminating the Quick Meals category entirely, instead of giving some logical thought to the individual choices. Milk should certainly still be there. So should the bowl of peas (particularly if you are actually growing peas/have them in the inventory), chicken nuggets if you have white meat, ham & cheese sandwich if you have bread, cheese, and meat, etc.

The way EA programmed simple living, the quick meal category could only be enabled or disabled as a whole - if they are not planning to splice it up.
That has obviously be causing some trouble in implementing the simple living challenge for quick meals.

- For instance, there is no base game pea that could be used as an ingredient, neither is there another ingredient that could be used for peas for players without the Seasons pack.
- Also, some of the quick meals don't have an ingredient that would make sense. Like animal cookies could possibly use flour or sugar, but that would sound somewhat weird for a quick meal. What else could they use though?
- Another example: There are no orange fruits in game so there also isn't an ingredient that could be used for orange juice.

So I kind of see why EA choose to not make quick meals available for the simple living challenge.

What EA could do though is adding a price tag to quick meals that don't use fresh ingredients so you'd have to buy those from the fridge.

"83bienchen;c-17953934" wrote:

"Amapola76;c-17953758" wrote:

"simfriend1968;c-17953735" wrote:
It's frustrating that sims now can't grab a glass of milk whenever they want, especially if the fridge is full of bottles of milk from freshly milked cows (and unlike the glass of milk sims don't seem able to drink a bottle of milk alongside eating a meal in the same way that they can with either milk or orange juice).

That's a very good point about being able to eat and drink at the same time. Maybe at the very least, if they are unwilling to reconsider the role of quick meals in the simple living system, they could at least tweak the milk bottles so that they can be treated as a drink for the purposes of multitasking.

I do think in general they made a big mistake by eliminating the Quick Meals category entirely, instead of giving some logical thought to the individual choices. Milk should certainly still be there. So should the bowl of peas (particularly if you are actually growing peas/have them in the inventory), chicken nuggets if you have white meat, ham & cheese sandwich if you have bread, cheese, and meat, etc.

The way EA programmed simple living, the quick meal category could only be enabled or disabled as a whole - if they are not planning to splice it up.
That has obviously be causing some trouble in implementing the simple living challenge for quick meals.

- For instance, there is no base game pea that could be used as an ingredient, neither is there another ingredient that could be used for peas for players without the Seasons pack.
- Also, some of the quick meals don't have an ingredient that would make sense. Like animal cookies could possibly use flour or sugar, but that would sound somewhat weird for a quick meal. What else could they use though?
- Another example: There are no orange fruits in game so there also isn't an ingredient that could be used for orange juice.

So I kind of see why EA choose to not make quick meals available for the simple living challenge.

What EA could do though is adding a price tag to quick meals that don't use fresh ingredients so you'd have to buy those from the fridge.

How about if they added 'ingredients' to the game, like boxed juice or cereal packages that sims can buy? It would be still be quick, but at least it requires another step. Another option I could see is if they added another fridge category for drinks where they could put things like milk and fruit juice. This would also work well if they added a blender, juicer or smoothie maker in the future.

That would be possible, but adding new ingredients means a lot of work and would have to be base game (e.g. free). We already got a lot of free stuff with the Cottage Living patch, I doubt that there would have been a budget for more.

I think it might be easier to add it to the things you can buy as groceries.

I hope they add Grocery stores in the future (put multiple ex. apples in a box and sell, pick groceries in a basket, get everything in a grocery bag). There are already a lot of packages in the game that they can make interacrable (Boxes with washing powder from laudry day. A box of orange juice in debug. Milk bottles. Etc). They can make bags of Nuggets or fozen peas to the Grocery Delivery service.