Sims 4 Grocery Mod & Store (Download) 2024 (Updated)
The freedom to choose what we eat, buy and consume is absolutely important. It gives us satisfaction and keeps us happy. Don’t you think the same should apply to our Sims? It’s almost like being a kid again, where you don’t have the choice to buy what you want at the store. You eat and take what your parents give you.
So far, it was the same in Sims 4. You eat and buy whatever the game provides. If you have played the game, you must know that you are to purchase whole meals from the menu and use the ingredients pre-given for cooking. However, that is all to change with the latest grocery mod Sims 4.
Players wanting this freedom for their Sims and wanting the satisfaction shall be happy to know that George from SimsWorkshop has released the Sims 4 Grocery Mod! It looks like someone finally decided to do something about the problem. He missed not having the options and the freedom to choose his ingredients like in the real world. Who wouldn’t?
Thanks to the groceries mod, you can now express your freedom of choice. Choose whatever you want for yourself in the Sim World. Satisfy your need to purchase whatever you wish to cook.
Want to buy herbs? It’s now available. Want to buy flowers? Scent up your Sim’s house quickly now. Want to buy fruits? Well, make apple pie.
Or, if you wish for a fish, purchase it with ease. Whatever you felt was missing is now available. And to make things more satisfying and realistic, this modification provides all ingredients packaged nicely.
George did this to make it more aesthetic and cheaper than buying single ingredients. The Mod has improved the game and has made Sims 4 as immersive as possible.
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How do you use the Sims 4 Grocery Mod?
The grocery stores are now locations your Sim can go to physically shop. The grocery store introduced is almost life-like with refrigerators, shelves, drink machines, etc. A washroom is also available in the store to make it as close to real-life as possible. So you can go to the store and purchase any ingredient you wish.
In this Groceries shopping mod, the new “Shop for Groceries” interaction is accessible via:
- Computers
- Refrigerators
- Stoves
- Grills
- Cash Registers
Thanks to the grocery shopping mod, you now have access to many more ingredients. While shopping, the Mod has made it easy to access the ingredients. You can now quickly pick the ingredients directly from the following menus:
- Purchase Produce – Herbs, Veggies, and fruits
- Purchase Flowers
- Purchase Fish
- Purchase Condiments – As of now, only Honey
- Purchase Cooking Ingredients – New Ingredients
As stated before, the Grocery Mod Sims 4 comes with many new ingredients. You will find most of them to be in packaged form. This makes the game more immersive, according to the developer. Packages are more aesthetically pleasing and help save your Sims some simoleons.
Just like in real life, you don’t buy a single egg or single bacon; you won’t have to do it in The Sims 4, thanks to the Groceries Mod. Each package gives you 4-8 single ingredients once opened.
The list of new ingredients is very vast. However, they will surely spice up your life. Here is the list of all the fresh ingredients you can now cook with to make your Sims life more realistic:
- Pork
- Poultry
- Red Meat
- Tofu
- Shrimp
- Milk
- Butter
- Cheese
- Eggs
- Flour
- Dough
- Bread
- Pasta
- Sugar
- Oil
- Flavor Extract
- Popcorn Kernels
- Marshmallows
Although some ingredients can be eaten raw, some should not. If your Sim eats raw ingredients, it might make them sick. Hence be careful what you feed your Sim. The safest option would be to cook everything. Now you won’t have to cook the same thing. Therefore you might also enjoy cooking now.
The Sims 4 grocery mod also changes a lot of recipes. It has made cooking extremely interesting. You will require more harvestable and new ingredients available in the grocery shopping mod. Alterations are there in all the base-level recipes. The Mod has made recipe changes to the following :
- Cooking
- Gourmet Cooking
- Baking
- Grilled Food
- Campfire (Outdoor Retreat)
- Grand Meals (Seasons)
- Ice Cream Machine (Cool Kitchen Stuff)
- Popcorn Machine (Movie Hangout Stuff)
In the grocery mod Sims 4, all deserts are now categorized under the baking menu. Any items not dessert in baking are now on the cooking menu. Thanks to the grocery mod, all the items that had a change in the category also give skills gained for their new category. So cooking or baking will now increase your skills exp.
Additional Serving Sizes in Groceries Mod
All the recipes now have three serving sizes. The Small, for one person. Medium for approximately four people and Large for approx 8 people. These serving sizes include all types of food, desserts, experimental food, and many others.
The serving sizes also now have a crafting cost that is set. Crafting cost is the price your Sim has to pay to make that dish. The serving size crafting costs are:
- §5 for Small serving
- §10 for Medium serving and
- §15 for a Large serving.
Hence you can now make any dish if you have the “Required Ingredients” with just §5-§15 depending on the serving size your Sim wishes to prepare. So more the people, more will be the serving size, and more will be the crafting cost. As simple as that.
Can you have a grocery store on Sims 4?
Yes! Thanks to this Grocery Store Mod, you can now have your own grocery store. You can run your supermarket in the DIY edition of the Mod. You can now also fulfill your dream of owning a supermarket by actually owning one and making more money in the game.
All this management, cooking, baking, and buying, in the end, does help your Sim to gain skills and up your XP. Believe me, once you experience this, you shall not be disappointed. The features are incredibly life-like.
So, How do you start a grocery store in Sims 4? To earn money from Grocery stores, you need to download the DIY Edition of the Grocery Store Mod Sims 4. After this, you shall be able to start a grocery store on a lot.
Customize how you wish for it to look. Now you can sell your harvestables and make money. As simple as that. You can also watch tutorials of the same on Youtube for some more precise ideas.
Sims 4 Grocery Mod Compatibility Information
Compatible with all Icemunmun Harvestables
Your Sims can purchase any of the custom harvestables while Shopping for Groceries. The custom content will not show up if you do not use the CC created by this creator.
Compatible with KingZace Harvestables,
The same goes for This creator. The custom harvestables will directly be available with Shopping for Groceries. However, they will not show up if you do not use their content,
Compatible with Custom Recipes
This Grocery Mod is compatible with the following :
- Custom Food Interactions by TheFoodGroup and
- Crafting Enabler by Andrew
Prerequisites for Grocery Mod Sims 4
Before you install the Grocery Mod, it is necessary that you own these two DLCs– Get to Work and Outdoor Retreat. The groceries now available due to the mod, are built from the packs included in these DLCs. Hence you must have them.
How To Install The Grocery Store Mod?
It is easy to download and install Sims 4 mods. Here is a step-by-step guide, making it easier for you.
- Download the grocery mod Sims 4 from.
- Extract the files using an extractor into a new folder for your convenience.
- Now copy the newly extracted folder.
- Go to the Sims 4 mod directory and paste it into the Mods folder.
- Check for the section “Mods Allowed” in your game settings.
- You can now restart the game, and now access the Grocery mod.
Conclusion
The Grocery mod Sims 4 has had a significant impact on the gameplay. Sims can now make food they want and not stick to the few base ingredients.
The Mod improves the overall quality of the game and makes it more immersive for the players. That is the goal of the developers and CC creators. To make Sims similar to real life.
The Mods have gained popularity and have reached nearly 160,000 downloads. Creators have promised regular updates with newer recipes, ingredients, and more ways to run your Grocery Stores. Enjoy the Grocery Mod Sims 4 and let your Sim learn how to shop for their ingredients.
Happy Sim Shopping!
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