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.

"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.

Simple living lot trait (quick meals)

somewhsome
4 years ago
"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.

I was thinking the same. I've never even heard of microwaved peas as a separate meal, it's not the thing where I live. So I thought it's just a bowl of fresh peas. ?

And I agree about yogurt, too. I would also like to see some sandwiches as a quick meal. We should be able to eat bread + cheese as a sandwich and not as two separate meals.
Ulf-Gunnel
New Spectator
4 years ago
"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).
83bienchen
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
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.
83bienchen
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
They are recipes though. Recipes cannot be bought as groceries. They could be added to the food delivery service recipe but that might be a bit weird. Who'd order a glass of milk that way?

I think the mix of stuff you have to pay for and stuff you need ingredients for would actually work best.
83bienchen
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
It's different kind of tuning, recipes vs. ingredients.
I have not invented this, I only tell you how it is currently coded in the game.
Doesn't mean you cannot request it, it just won't work to order it from the grocery shop. Getting it from the fridge can of course be programmed, but that's not what I was talking about in the post you quoted.
EgonVM
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Yes. Right now the only way to get quick meals in those lots is by Zoomers delivery.
MVWdeZT
Rising Hotshot
4 years ago
I think if you have children, it's best to go off the Simple Living challenge. They can become picky eaters, who want only quick meals, and they really don't care if you've made aubergine parmesan from scratch. Then go back on the lot challenge when they get older. But that's just me.

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