Gardening and Fishing for Cooking Ingredients - Sims 4 Basegame

Gardening as a Sims can become a full-time job, between harvesting, tending and potentially selling your Sims' daily harvests. Some of the crops can be gathered in the community, depending on the neighborhood, which is different for each locations. [Note - if you have Seasons, specific crops are only available during specific seasons.]

In other words, you can save your Sims some time by focusing on the plants that are most likely to be used for cooking. 

Developing cooking skills offer more and more options, but to save money, your Sims must also have some Gardening and Fishing talents.

The ten common garden ingredients used by those who cook:

• Apple
• Basil
• Carrot
• Lemon
• Mushroom
• Onion
• Potato
• Spinach
• Strawberry
• Tomato
• Fruit (any)
• Herb (any)
• Vegetable (any)

If you want to save time on gardening relative to cooking, focus on these particular plants.

The three common fish used in cooking:

• Bass
• Salmon
• Tilapia
• Fish (any including Minnows and Tetras)

Keep fish fresh longer for cooking purposes in the refrigerator but time still degrades the quality of fish stored in the fridge.