Food and cooking give Grow a Garden another way to turn crops into progression instead of direct sale value. Once cooking became part of the game's longer-term systems, food stopped being just an event curiosity and started acting like its own item family with recipes, timers, and outputs that players may want to reference separately from the raw crop list.
This food catalog keeps the dishes, recipe group notes, base time, and base weight together so you can quickly see what each cooked item needs and how it fits into the broader cooking system. It is meant to help when you are deciding whether specific crops are better saved for recipes than sold immediately.
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Burger
Bread: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Meat: Glowshroom, Bell Pepper, Cactus, Eggplant, Tall Asparagus, Mushroom, Pepper, Taco Fern, Venus Fly Trap, Ember Lily, Bone Blossom Leafy: Artichoke, Onion, Jalapeno, Tomato, Avocado, Bamboo, Taro Flower, Bell Pepper, Pineapple, Grand Tomato, Sunflower
- Base time
- 7 minutes
- Base weight
- 2kg
Cake
Bread: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Icing: Sweet Crops Filling: Sweet Crops Fruit: Fruit Crops
- Base time
- 6 minutes
- Base weight
- 2kg
Candy Apple
Apple: Apple, Green Apple, Maple Apple, Sugar Apple Candy Coating: Sweet Crops
- Base time
- 3 minutes
- Base weight
- 0.7kg
Candy Cane
Candy: Candy Crops Mint: Mint
- Base time
- 1 minutes
- Base weight
- 1kg
Corndog
Stick: Woody Crops Meat: Glowshroom, Bell Pepper, Cactus, Eggplant, Tall Asparagus, Mushroom, Pepper, Taco Fern, Venus Fly Trap, Ember Lily, Bone Blossom Batter: Corn, Violet Corn
- Base time
- 7 minutes
- Base weight
- 1.5kg
Donut
Bread: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Icing: Sweet Crops Sprinkles: Sweet Crops
- Base time
- 3 minutes
- Base weight
- 2kg
Eggnog
Sweet: Sweet Crops Root: Root Crops
- Base time
- 2 minutes
- Base weight
- 1.6kg
Fruitcake
Bread: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Fruit: Fruit Crops Berry: Berry Crops Sweet: Sweet Crops
- Base time
- 4 minutes
- Base weight
- 2.2kg
Gingerbread Cookie
Bread: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Candy: Candy Crops Root: Root Crops
- Base time
- 2 minutes
- Base weight
- 1.5kg
Holiday Roast
Meat 1: Glowshroom, Bell Pepper, Cactus, Eggplant, Tall Asparagus, Mushroom, Pepper, Taco Fern, Venus Fly Trap, Ember Lily, Bone Blossom Meat 2: Glowshroom, Bell Pepper, Cactus, Eggplant, Tall Asparagus, Mushroom, Pepper, Taco Fern, Venus Fly Trap, Ember Lily, Bone Blossom Herbs: Artichoke, Onion, Jalapeno, Tomato, Avocado, Bamboo, Taro Flower, Bell Pepper, Pineapple, Grand Tomato, Sunflower
- Base time
- 7 minutes
- Base weight
- 2kg
Holiday Stuffing
Bread: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Herbs: Artichoke, Onion, Jalapeno, Tomato, Avocado, Bamboo, Taro Flower, Bell Pepper, Pineapple, Grand Tomato, Sunflower Vegetable: Vegetable Crops
- Base time
- 3 minutes
- Base weight
- 1.8kg
Hot Dog
Bread: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Meat: Glowshroom, Bell Pepper, Cactus, Eggplant, Tall Asparagus, Mushroom, Pepper, Taco Fern, Venus Fly Trap, Ember Lily, Bone Blossom
- Base time
- 7 minutes
- Base weight
- 1.5kg
Ice Cream
Cone: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Cream: Sweet Crops
- Base time
- 5 minutes
- Base weight
- 2kg
Pie
Pastry: Crown Melon, Pumpkin, Coconut, Sugarglaze Filling: Vegetable Crops
- Base time
- 7 minutes
- Base weight
- 3kg
Pizza
Bread: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Meat: Glowshroom, Bell Pepper, Cactus, Eggplant, Tall Asparagus, Mushroom, Pepper, Taco Fern, Venus Fly Trap, Ember Lily, Bone Blossom Vegetable: Vegetable Crops Sause: Fruit Crops
- Base time
- 8 minutes
- Base weight
- 2kg
Porridge
Base: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Cream: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Fruit: Fruit Crops
- Base time
- 4 minutes
- Base weight
- 2kg
Salad
Leafy: Artichoke, Onion, Jalapeno, Tomato, Avocado, Bamboo, Taro Flower, Bell Pepper, Pineapple, Grand Tomato, Sunflower Vegetable: Vegetable Crops
- Base time
- 6 minutes
- Base weight
- 0.2kg
Sandwich
Bread: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Leafy: Artichoke, Onion, Jalapeno, Tomato, Avocado, Bamboo, Taro Flower, Bell Pepper, Pineapple, Grand Tomato, Sunflower Tomato: Tomato, Grand Tomato
- Base time
- 6 minutes
- Base weight
- 1kg
Smoothie
Fruit: Fruit Crops
- Base time
- 7 minutes
- Base weight
- 1.2kg
Soup
Any recipe, as long as it isn't a recipe for another food.
- Base time
- 5 minutes
- Base weight
- 0.5kg
Spaghetti
Pasta: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Sause: Tomato, Grand Tomato Meat: Glowshroom, Bell Pepper, Cactus, Eggplant, Tall Asparagus, Mushroom, Pepper, Taco Fern, Venus Fly Trap, Ember Lily, Bone Blossom Vegetable: Vegetable Crops
- Base time
- 6 minutes
- Base weight
- 2.5kg
Sushi
Bamboo: Bamboo Wrap: Artichoke, Onion, Jalapeno, Tomato, Avocado, Bamboo, Taro Flower, Bell Pepper, Pineapple, Grand Tomato, Sunflower Main: Vegetable Crops Rice: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze
- Base time
- 5 minutes
- Base weight
- 2kg
Sweet Tea
Herbal Base: Flower Crops, Toxic Crops, Mint Sweetener: Sweet Crops
- Base time
- 5 minutes
- Base weight
- 0.5kg
Waffle
Pastry: Crown Melon, Pumpkin, Coconut, Sugarglaze Sweet: Sweet Crops
- Base time
- 6 minutes
- Base weight
- 1.2kg
Wreath
Leafy: Artichoke, Onion, Jalapeno, Tomato, Avocado, Bamboo, Taro Flower, Bell Pepper, Pineapple, Grand Tomato, Sunflower Sweet: Sweet Crops Berries: Berry Crops
- Base time
- 3 minutes
- Base weight
- 2kg
Use the recipe text as the main reference here, then check base time and base weight for a quick sense of how substantial the dish is in the current cooking data. Since cooking inputs are grouped conceptually on many public pages, this catalog focuses on readability instead of pretending each recipe is a standard one-line ingredient list.
FAQ
What do base time and base weight represent?
Those values reflect the tracked baseline cooking information for each food item. They are useful as quick comparison points when you want to know how long a dish takes and how heavy the finished result is before other factors come into play.
Why are recipes written as ingredient groups?
That follows the way public food sources present many dishes in Grow a Garden. Instead of one exact ingredient list, some foods are defined by categories such as bread, fruit, icing, or sweet crops, so we preserve that grouped format.
Crops
Values, weights, harvest behavior, and availability.
Seeds
Shop access, crafting, and seed pack sources.
Pets
Egg sources, merchant sources, and abilities.
Eggs
Hatch times, drop pools, and availability.
Gears
Gear categories, prices, stock, and effects.
Crop Mutations
Multipliers, visuals, and trigger sources.
Pet Mutations
Mutation types, odds, and passive boosts.
Weather
Standard, event, and admin weather effects.
Merchants
Spawn merchants and what they sell.
NPCs
Important NPC roles and interaction notes.
Shops
Refresh cycles, currencies, and NPC owners.
Seed Packs
Pack types, contents, prices, and dates added.
Crafting Recipes
Seed, sprinkler, and item crafting routes.
Food
ActiveCooking outputs, recipe groups, and base stats.
Currencies
Core currencies and how they are earned.