#4  SELLING and / or TRADING YOUR INGREDIENTS -  

(based on how I use this feature) 

I am still experimenting with this part, trying and testing different benefits (or not) or accumulating ingredients rather than disposing of them when there are only a few.

Based on what I have worked on I suggest that you follow this - and then experiment too as you might prefer managing your ingredients and time in another way :)

(PLEASE open Food Game in a seperate page so that you can follow as you read)

Let's start by going to MARKETPLACE at the top and then to SELL INGREDIENTS.

There you will see a list of all of the ingredients that you have collected together with your Cooking Vouchers. Those are required to cook the dishes and, hopefully, get to the top of the ranking and win cash. Cooking takes up a lot of time. I have tried it and if time is your enemy I suggest that you pass and go directly to selling or trading your items.

The first item in your list will be the Cooking Vouchers.
These can also be used in the Lottery - 10 vouchers will buy 1 ticket and winners are drawn on Sunday at server reset. I buy between 5 and 50 tickets every week and have sometimes been lucky and won Gold - but not always.

Hover your cursor over the Cooking Voucher in your list of ingredients.
The 2 most inportant pieces of information there are:
- Lowest price 
- Rarity level

Now we can practice selling an item:
With Cooking vouchers it is simple.
Right now the Lowest price is 18 Gold for a voucher.
To be certain your vouchers will be sold you undercut that price and sell them for less: 17 
I have 21 so I will sell 20

Click on the Cooking Vouchers and a new page will open
In the box: Quantity to sell I put 20
In the box Price in Gold I will put 340 (the total selling price for my 20 vouchers at 17 Gold each one)
Then click CONFIRM
On this page you pay the 10% Market Fees: 34 Gold in this case
Click PAY
and you will be taken to the page where you see your ACTIVE MARKETPLACE OFFERS.

If you change your mind within 1 hour, you can remove the item you put up for sale and your fee will be returned to you. If more time passes, the fee will be lost.

You can change your mind by clicking on the item and removing it from the market.

That item is simple.

Now for the more complicated - but FUN part!!

Scroll down and you will again see your items.
Hover you cursor over each one and  PLEASE NOTICE which items are EXPENSIVE and which items are much cheaper.

Why? Because instead of selling we can also trade them.

Almonds and Anchovies are quite high in price while Apples are less.

As you go through all of the items you will see many expensive and others very cheap. Make note of the high-priced items and of the very cheap items (a mental note or jot them down). Prices will vary depending on others who may sell at low prices which will cause the price to drop.

DON'T SELL ANYTHING YET because I want you to see what other options we have to get rid of them.

Almonds right now are 73 Gold each while Apples are 4 Gold each and keeping that in mind we go to the trade page.

Click on INGREDIENTS at the top of the page
then on the far right: trade with the bank

Here I will tell you  what I am doing BUT you can also experiment and maybe discover something even more rewarding.

Under Trade service at the 5th and last voice it says
1 Cooking Voucher 75 Required ingredients and Trade

If you have an ingredient with 75 or more pieces it will appear there.

If Apples appear there then I think it best to trade 75 Apples at 4 Gold each which, if you sold them would bring you 300 Gold, for 1 Cooking Voucher

therefore I would CLICK on the Apples and then collect the Cooking Voucher (which would definately sell even though the price would be lower than the apples which 'might' sell)
Redeem you Cooking Voucher which will then appear in your list of ingredients.

If Almonds or Anchovies appear when I click 'trade' I would NOT trade them but would rather sell them on the market as they are worth more.

I hope that is clear (otherwise PM on Food Game and I will help further)

You can now decide which items you want to place on the market, individually or in groups of 10 or any amount at all.
I place the expensive items in groups of no more than 20 as it becomes a large amount of fees to pat
while the less expensive items can be sold in any ampunt at all.
As long as the selling price is lower than the othes at the time you put your items up for sale, they will go.
You know why?
Because there are Food Game users waiting to pounce on low-priced items and buy them in bulk, which they then hoard until the price rises some days, weeks or even months later.
If you have time to do that then by all means do so. I don't lol

Once you have put a few, many or even all of your ingredients (there is no limit as to how many you can sell at a time) you then wait hoping someone will buy them.
You can click on MARKETPLACE and then -MY RECENT TRANSACTIONS at any time and the items IN GREEN are those which have been sold!

The users who are cooking will spend hours buying the items they require for the dishes that they must cook LOL

As your items are sold they disappear from My active Marketplace offers: - BUT the amount of Gold in your account will INCREASE - and it is amazing how quickly that happens.

This all might seem difficult but I can assure you that after a couple of times that you sell something then you will no  longer need to follow instructions as it becomes easy very quickly :)