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.

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.

They could add a Fermenting skill tied to cooking (similar to the Canning skill) and add things like yoghurt. That would be fun! Maybe this is something that could be added with a destination pack. Sims could ferment their own yoghurt, tofu and sauerkraut. I would also love to see an option to cook oat meal on a stove (the animation is already there).