Bringing baked goods into work

🎉🎉🎉 Very happy you have had the last laugh here. If they don’t want to eat the cake then they don’t have to!

They are being utterly daft. I would
never, ever eat baked goods brought into the office, but most other people would and thoroughly enjoy them too.

Hygiene certificate? WTAF…

Now you have no choice but to up your game! I’d have to decide to trial new recipes for something I’ve always wanted to crack. Edit the recipe everyday and ask loudly for feedback and suggestions for further improvements. “Ooh good idea, I’ll try that tomorrow.”
What absolute miseries. I also love baking and few things make me happier than seeing people enjoying what I’ve made.
On a serious note, imagine living life like that :( poor souls

Every 6 weeks? That isn't even often, and it's really lovely of you. I'd be thrilled if you were my colleague. What a pair of miseries!

Agree.

Home baking really isn't the problem (and OP sounds great).

I bet the two mean women eat ultra processed food for lunch.

Come and work where I work!
They are being miserable…
it’s very kind of you to bring cakes in ..
it’s not your problem if they are on a diet!

I haven’t read all comments, so maybe it has been mentioned before but please, write all ingredients in a visible card. Not just the main allergens but also some people can’t have ANY quantity of alcohol, for example, so it’s important if you use it, to write it on a label.

Love this!

How did the cakes go down today?

MadhamWebb
I just laughed so much at your comment, that my cat jumped and dashed away from me!

You sound like a very generous person - have a virtual thumbs up and great that your boss supports you too.

I wish there was someone you where I work!

😂 love this post!

As an aside I found I loved celariac chips done in an air fryer with smoked paprika on way more than normal chips. Still carbs but much lower.
I'm also on lower & unrefined carbs to help control a condition (not diabetes).

I think it's lovely when people do!

And after all, no one's forced to eat it!

The idea that you would need a hygiene rating! I mean, I suppose some people don't like to eat things that they haven't prepared/ seen prepared/ obtained from an official cafe or shop; and that's up to them; but it's beyond paranoid to treat it as some sort of breach of an imaginary law.

They are vile.

“You don’t have to eat them, fat cunts.”

🫢

They need to get a grip!
You sound lovely!

Love this 🤣 your boss sounds ace.

I can't eat dairy because it makes me ill. Do I complain if someone puts milk in the fridge? Absolutely not 😆

Hope you enjoy your next baking session. I want some cake now!!!! We used to have cake Wednesday every week and it was the highlight of our week x

I do a very low carb diet and personally I think everyone should be more appreciative of it. The selfish woman accross the desk from me at work shamelessly brings in crisps to eat, sandwiches, baked potatoes, high carb veg such as parsnips and onion... She even shares her crisps with our other colleagues on occasion, right in front of my face. I'm 16 stone, and it's basically because of people like this, everywhere you go...

Or wait, am I just a chunky, boring killjoy??

This thread has been great

For those posters suggesting it is hard to avoid office cakes: these colleagues get their way most of the time.

OP says roughly once every 6 weeks. That's 1 out of every 30 working days. That's approx 3% of the time. In other words: these two colleagues get their way 97% of the time.

I suggest you bake more @Bibblybumblebee . Once every two weeks would still be only 10%. They'd still get their way 90% of the time.

Suggest you also create a nice and colourful pie chart with the above figures, print it out and display that with your bakes...

@PostItInABook i don't disagree with you

How ridiculous!
This is just office culture. You've got to have will power.

I had a note stuck to my desk saying 'do you not feed, wedding diet' and then when I got pregnant a few months later someone stuck one up saying 'please feed me, current cravings are:' and then they would post it note my cravings lol fun times.
I got a lot of maccys chocolate milkshakes at one point so had to take it down lol

Well I think you are incredibly kind to bake and take into work, and my office would love you!

One of my colleagues does similar every now and again, and he lets us all know in advance when he's going to bring things in and the idea behind it is to encourage us to have a break and to speak to each other about non-work related things, a very good nod to wellbeing.

Ignore your colleague and her friends, I'm sure your office would be gutted if you stopped being so kind

You probably need to explain this comment a little more…..

What do you mean?

If OP was a size 6 would that make it ok in your book? 🤨

The thing is if you want to eat something you will. I’m fat because I eat what I want. But that isn’t the responsibility or fault of others. It’s MY responsibility to make the choice to eat something or not. Most of the time I do, because I want to and don’t give a shit. Other times I refrain because I might be feeling particularly healthy minded. Motivation is MINE to generate and use. Same as willpower. It has nothing to do with anyone else. People need to take responsibility for themselves and their choices. There are far too many people who absolve themselves of all accountability and responsibility for anything negative in their life.

Same with triggers. It’s not the world’s responsibility to police themselves to avoid your triggers. It’s your responsibility to learn about and manage your own triggers.

edit - by ‘you’ I don’t mean you personally……just you in a general sense.

I was going to say that I kind of get their point as I’ve had an eating disorder in the past and i did really struggle in an office where people were constantly (everyday) bringing in cakes and biscuits and things. But equally I understood it was my problem not everyone else’s. But to complain about once every six weeks is ridiculous! You sound lovely and really kind, I bet everyone else in the office loves you

Just as an aside, I wouldn't be quick to blame the second woman (who is also always on a diet) who did not personally complain you. Sounds to me like the woman who complained to you is dragging her friend into this, perhaps unwillingly.

how? No one is forced to ear them