Have had this issue for a long time: when sims cook the meals autonomously they are not using fresh ingredients from inventory or fridge. Would like to get it fixed as this makes gardening useless. ...
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I still have this with the most recent update Feb 3, 2026. Even wrose, I have Home Chef Hustle and my sims won't use prepped ingredients autonomously either. To use any ingredients I need to go into the Cook... menu and make sure that both Use Prepped Ingredients and Use Fresh Ingredients are checked then select the recipe with ingredients. The only way I can force them to use the ingredients is to have the Simple Living lot challenge trait from Cottage Living. I don't use mods/cc.
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