Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Sandwiches Explained - All Sandwich Recipes And Ingredients

Getting sandwich recipes in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and making sandwiches makes tracking down certain Pokémon much more convenient and helps you fill the Paldea Pokédex faster. The right recipe can even help raise your chances of catching a Shiny Pokémon, though getting to that point takes a bit of time and progress in the main story paths.

This guide explains how to make sandwiches and what you get from eating them, and it also has a working list of every sandwich recipe in Scarlet and Violet.

How to make sandwiches in Scarlet and Violet

You can make sandwiches by setting up a picnic from the main menu – accessed by pressing the “X” button – and you get your picnic set after visiting the academy for the first time. Every sandwich needs a condiment and filling of some variety, which you have to provide, but the bread is just there automatically.

A picnic table appears after you choose the picnic option. Interact with one of the place settings – it may take a few seconds for the game to recognize you’ve done this – and a new menu shows up. Choose to make a sandwich.

Make a sandwich with no recipe

If you have the right ingredients, you can pick from any recipe you’ve learned. You can also press “X” to enter creative mode, where you can mix and match ingredients to get a unique creation with meal powers that vary depending on the type of ingredients you use.

The benefit to using creative mode is that, once you figure out a combination of ingredients that suits what you’re after – Shiny hunting, for example, or catching Fire types – you can often get the Meal Power effect without using quite as many ingredients as recipes call for. For example, if you wanted to increase the number of items you get from Bug-type Pokémon, you might want to make a cream cheese-and-cherry tomato sandwich with nothing else on it.

How to get more sandwich recipes in Scarlet and Violet

You learn new sandwich recipes from one of the customers in Every Wich Way, the man standing by the counter in a white shirt. He has a yellow text box instead of the usual white.

Every Which Way is the sandwich shop in every town, though unlike other shops, Scarlet and Violet don’t mark this one on your map. You’ll have to explore a bit to find the shop.

The man at the counter teaches you a handful of new recipes as you earn more Gym badges, so make sure to check back after earning a new one. While you’re here, you can also purchase one of a handful of pre-made sandwiches if you don’t want to use any of yours or set up a picnic.

Once you have Herba Mystica of the different flavors in your inventory, make sure to speak with the Sandwich Shop man again to learn a new round of Mystica-specific recipes.

Meal Powers explained

Every sandwich grants a Meal Power, which consists of three effects: a primary power, a secondary power, and a boost to the chance of encountering a certain Pokémon type (the Encounter power).

Each sandwich's Meal Power effect lasts for 30 minutes, and they don't stack. The dominant ingredient flavors seem to determine the Meal Power you get. For example, Sweet is tied to Egg Power, while Salty seems to influence Encounter.

If you want to make a Shiny Sandwich to help with Shiny hunting, though, you have to use Herba Mystica, which you can earn from 5 and 6-star Raids.

• Catching Power: More likely catches will succeed
• Item Drop Power: More materials found after battle
• Egg Power: More likely to find Pokémon Eggs
• Sparkling Power: More likely to find Shiny Pokémon
• Exp. Point Power: More Exp. Points gained
• Title Power: More likely to find Pokémon with Marks
  
• Raid Power: More rewards from Tera Raid Battles
• Teensy Power: More likely to find small Pokémon
• Humungo Power: More likely to find large Pokémon

How to get sandwich ingredients

You need to buy ingredients from the various shops in Paldea’s towns – Deli Cioso, Artisan Bakery, and Aquiesta Supermarket – and they all stock additional items as you earn more Gym badges.

All Scarlet and Violet sandwich ingredients

Sure Cans ingredients

Deli Cioso ingredients

Artisan Bakery ingredients

Aquiesta Supermarket Ingredients

The Supermarket sells several different ingredients also found in other stores, but, as far as we can tell, the following ingredients are exclusive to Aquiesta.

All Scarlet and Violet sandwich recipes

These are all sandwich recipes available:

Check out our Pokémon Scarlet and Violet walkthrough for more tips and tricks!