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
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: Apple: Apple, Green Apple, Maple Apple, Sugar Apple Candy Coating: Sweet Crops
- Base time
- 3 minutes
- Base weight
- 0.7kg
Candy Cane
Recipe groups: Candy: Candy Crops Mint: Mint
- Base time
- 1 minutes
- Base weight
- 1kg
Corndog
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: Bread: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Icing: Sweet Crops Sprinkles: Sweet Crops
- Base time
- 3 minutes
- Base weight
- 2kg
Eggnog
Recipe groups: Sweet: Sweet Crops Root: Root Crops
- Base time
- 2 minutes
- Base weight
- 1.6kg
Fruitcake
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: Bread: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Candy: Candy Crops Root: Root Crops
- Base time
- 2 minutes
- Base weight
- 1.5kg
Holiday Roast
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: Cone: Cauliflower, Corn, Banana, Violet Corn, Sugarglaze Cream: Sweet Crops
- Base time
- 5 minutes
- Base weight
- 2kg
Pie
Recipe groups: Pastry: Crown Melon, Pumpkin, Coconut, Sugarglaze Filling: Vegetable Crops
- Base time
- 7 minutes
- Base weight
- 3kg
Pizza
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: Fruit: Fruit Crops
- Base time
- 7 minutes
- Base weight
- 1.2kg
Soup
Recipe groups: Any recipe, as long as it isn't a recipe for another food.
- Base time
- 5 minutes
- Base weight
- 0.5kg
Spaghetti
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: 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
Recipe groups: Herbal Base: Flower Crops, Toxic Crops, Mint Sweetener: Sweet Crops
- Base time
- 5 minutes
- Base weight
- 0.5kg
Waffle
Recipe groups: Pastry: Crown Melon, Pumpkin, Coconut, Sugarglaze Sweet: Sweet Crops
- Base time
- 6 minutes
- Base weight
- 1.2kg
Wreath
Recipe groups: 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.