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Though you’ll likely sell the majority of crops and animal goods your farm produces inStory of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, recipes requiring these ingredients can be found throughout this adorable farming sim. Whether replenishing your hunger or making new friends in Forgotten Valley, practice makes perfect in your homestead’s kitchen.
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In our Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipes guide, we not only teach you how to cook in A Wonderful Life, but offer tips on how to improve your cooking, unlock all recipes and ingredients, and offer a list of all Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipes.
Updated on June 19, 2025:Now that we’ve unlocked all Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life recipes, we’ve updated our guide to include the new SOS: AWL recipes we’ve found.
Cooking Basics
Cooking your Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipes is as simple as havingthe right ingredientsand bringing them to thekitchen in your house.
Although your kitchen grows and upgrades as years pass - youadd onto your farmin time - the kitchen functionality isavailable from Spring One.
Your first kitchen is simple, but it’s enough to make theeasier mealsyou’ll receive in your Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipes list.
Early-gameStory of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipes will includebasic ingredients, typicallyonly one or two.
As the game goes on, though,your kitchen growsin subsequent years, bringing with it new possibilities.
Beginning inYear Two, you’ll have aRefrigeratorat home. Like the Food Storage outside, the fridge canstore crops, edible foraged goods, fish, and animal products.
The difference between them, though, is thatyou can use items in your Refrigerator when cooking without getting them out.
While you begin cooking usingitems in your inventory, the Refrigerator functions likeFood Storage you can access right from the stove.
With it, you can make all Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipes without bogging down your backpack.
Why You Should Be Cooking
Not only willyour farmer become hungry periodicallyas they work hard in the field, butmeals are great gifts. They’re easy-to-source presents to give when you’rebefriending your neighborsin Forgotten Valley.
When it comes toeatingwhat you’ve made,bigger meals restore more of your hunger meter, as may be expected. A full plate of Mushroom Curry, for example, is more filling than a bowl of Milky Soup.
But forthe townsfolk, you’ll find thateveryone has a preferencein what mealsthey want as gifts.
Some of themtake almost any meal, while others havecategories of meals they prefer. You may even come across characters whowon’t take dishes with certain ingredients.
Fishis the most common revulsion you’ll find, with a few characters rejecting meals with fish as an ingredient.
Keep a variety of meals on you to befriend the people of Forgotten Valley that much faster!
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How To Cook
When you’re ready tocook a meal, you’ll have two options when you interact with the stove: you canuse ingredients to make a new dish, or, if you’re already familiar with the dish you’d like, you can alsocook from recipeinstead.
Whenusing ingredients, you have your choice ofup to three ingredients, which can be anything in your fridge or anything edible in your inventory.
Not all combinations will give you a successful dish. If you’re not keeping something you’ve made, or it didn’t come out well, you’ve also got atrash canin which you candispose of ruined meals.
Whencooking from recipes, you’llselect the categoryof your meal, thenchoose the mealfrom that category. Available here are any Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipes you’ve unlocked.
You’re then taken to the actual cooking screen.Ingredients youcanuse are highlighted, while incompatible ingredients are faded out and cannot be selected.
You don’t need to choose the items in the order of the recipe - the game will slot the qualifying ingredient to the right place in the recipe for you.
Once you’re all set getting your ingredients selected, you may thencook multiples of a dish, so long as you have the ingredients for said number.
The game will not let you begin cooking more than the dishes for which you have the ingredients.
Different kinds of fish don’t stack, nor docrops of different grades. If you have different fish or crops, you’ll need to manually make the recipe each time, selecting the different item each time in order to make multiples.
Since meals don’t have different qualities,meals stack even if they use different quality ingredientsin the recipe - as long as the name is the same, it stacks.
For example, Milky Soup made with Normal Milk (B) and Milky Soup made with Normal Milk (A) will both stack, as they end up simply as Milky Soup in your inventory.
If you’vecooked more than you want to carry, you canstore dishes in the Refrigerator indoors or Food Storage outdoorsto keep them safe and your inventory clear.
How To Unlock New Recipes And Categories
In Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, recipes can be foundall over Forgotten Valleyand may be obtained in a number of ways:
At the beginning of the game, you only know how to makeSoup and Saladdishes. Don’t be intimidated, though - new chefs never start on the fancy stuff.
The more you cookthrough your Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipes as you find them, themore confidentyou become. And as yourcooking skill increases, you’ll begin tounlock new categories.
In total, you’ll have categories forSoup, Salad, Hors D’oeuvres, Desserts,andEntreesin your recipe book, each with several recipes to make and enjoy.
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All Recipes In A Wonderful Life
The cookbook for Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipes is quite fleshed out, withdozensof recipes across several categories for you to unlock, create, and enjoy.
Below, we’ve broken downall recipes by category, and have included a fullingredient listfor every recipe as well.
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Any fish
One of the Following
Egg(any variety)
Egg Salad
Twoof the Following(can’t be the same)
Tomato, Greentoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turnmelon, Camelo
TwoFruits
Any of the Following
Threeof the Following(can’t be the same)
Turnberry
Melon
18-21, 32-33
Watermelon, Strawberry, Melon, Peach, Apple, Grape, Banana, Orange, Strawmelo, Melomelo, Berrymelo, Watato, Melosweet, Poberryto, Strawsweet, Potamelo, Sweetmel, Porange, Greach, Panana, Papple, Grorange, Banorange, Orapple, Granana, Grapple, Banapple
1-9
Custom Crop 32
Tomato, Turnip, Potato, Carrot, Sweet Potato, Greentoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Poturnip, Carroturn, Sweeturn, Pocaro, Pototo, Swarrot, Turnmato, Pomato, Tocarro, Sweetoma, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, Camelo
Two of the Following(can’t be the same)
Tomato
Turnip, Potato, Carrot, Sweet Potato, Poturnip, Carroturn, Sweeturn, Pocaro, Pototo, Swarrot, Pomato, Sweetoma
Two of the Following Custom Crops(can’t be the same)
1, 2, 4, 6, or 15
10-13, 25-26
18-21, 32, 33
14, 23, 24
Any Herb or Mushroom
4 or 9
Shiny Stir-Fry
Sweet Potato, Custom Crop 4, Any Fish, or Any Mushroom
5 or 7
Nutty Stir Fry
Egg (any variety)
Veggie Cake
Tomato, Carrot
Greentoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turnmelo, Camelo
Two Fruits(can’t be the same)
Three Fruits(can’t be the same)
Mixed Punch
Oneof the Following
1 or 6
Tomato or Carrot
Greentoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turnmelon, Camelo
Watermelon, Strawberry, Melon, Peach, Apple, Grape, Banana, Orange
Strawmelo, Melomelo, Berrymelo, Watato, Melosweet, Poberryto, Strawsweet, Potamelo, Sweetmel, Porange, Greach, Panana, Papple, Grorange, Banorange, Orapple, Granana, Grapple, Banapple
2, 5, or 6
Deluxe Juice
Tomato, Carrot, Greentoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turnmelo, Camelo
musical instruments, ocarina, flappers
Two Milks, Butters, or Cheeses(any quality)
23 or 24
Any Herb
34, 35, 36
Two Herbs or Mushrooms(can’t be the same
Any Fish
Veggie Surprise
23, 24
Minced Veggie Bowl`
Turnip, Potato, Carrot, Sweet Potato, Greetmoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Poturnip, Carroturn, Sweeturn, Pocarro, Pototo, Swarrot, Turnnmato, Pomato, Tocarro, Sweetoma, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, Camelo
Veggie Loaf
Our Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipe guide is awork in progress- we’ll come back to update this when we’ve found more Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipes to reflect the new additions to our cookbook!
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