Simple living lot trait (quick meals)

"Amapola76;c-17955006" wrote:

"Isharell;c-17954928" wrote:


Yes, I've got peas but I would have to cook them before I had a bowl of them. If you want to eat peas as a 'quick meal' you'd have to grow them and eat them raw.

You know people do this, right? When we grow peas, we always eat them raw when they are fresh and in season. It's a very common spring snack. The kids love them this way, even more than microwaved, really.

It's also super-easy to make homemade yogurt. I would have loved to see yogurt (using your own milk, maybe with optional fruit) as an option under canning. (Yogurt isn't exactly a preserve, but then, neither is chocolate syrup, custard, or mayonnaise; it makes as much sense as any of those.)

As far as oatmeal is concerned, you already have to microwave it. I don't see why you shouldn't still be able to do that, if we were also able to grow or buy oats.

Again, the whole point is not that every quick meal option should still be available with the simple living challenge. It's that some of them would still make sense even with the challenge. We might draw the lines differently with respect to specific items, but some of them very clearly make no sense.

I said this earlier in the thread:

"Pamtastic72;c-17954878" wrote:
I wish they would just put the quick meals back with the challenge. Or require the ingredients. Like for cereal you at least need milk, same for yogurt, pb&j require bread & a preserve, ham & cheese would need bread + cheese + red meat etc. That or put them on the grocery list and let us purchase them, especially yogurt and orange juice especially orange juice since we don’t have harvestable oranges in game. We could buy cheese crackers too, or they could require having flour and cheese.

If they added oats to the grocery store they could be a required ingredient not just for oatmeal but also the oatmeal cookies for the baking menu. Then you could use them to make your own cereal...like granola. It would be the best of both worlds.