Bringing baked goods into work

Trust me, HR are not going to care about food you make at home that colleagues can choose to share (or not) the only concern would be if you had people in the office with severe allergies (e.g. nuts) but that would be the same for everyone’s lunches. They are just being petty, nobody is asking them to eat it

As others have said - good grief. But there is something odd about the interaction and I think you might have instinctively picked up on it. The "you might get in trouble" bit almost sounds like a threat dressed up as faux concern, especially if they used words like "inappropriate. " Definitely check with HR/management what the situation is, but I would be amazed if they cared - really, its is common in offices to bring in treats, and it cheers everyone up. I do remember working in an office where one woman had coeliac disease and how appreciative she was when someone bought in a cake that was gluten free . So a second prong of any response, if you can be bothered with these 2 women at all, is to bring in a sugar free cake.

Why not compromise? Bake smaller. Halve the recipe. You don't need to feed people cake for 3 days at a time. It's not about who's right and who's wrong. It's about people learning to work together. When a nice gesture is divisive in an office, it's always better to find a compromise.

You'll be a menopausal old trout one day too love

Ignore, and see if they report you?

I would never touch home baked cakes in the office but have no issue at all with others bringing them in and eating them. Such odd behaviour from your colleague.

"Thank you, Marjorie Dawes"

would be my response.

@Bibblybumblebee i think you sound lovely. Don’t stop being kind just because of 2 misery guts

There’s a woman in my company who has been fast-tracked promoted to Director level and it’s a standing joke amongst a few that it’s for three reasons: she’s beautiful; she is omnipresent at the office early mornings and late evenings; she bakes cakes for the office. That sounds awful, but there’s no evidence of actually being any good at her job and some evidence of being useless and carried by her boss, apart from looking fab in promotional materials, always just being around and the baking is delicious. You keep going @Bibblybumblebee & please do a food hygiene course that you can shove in the face of your nasty colleagues with no willpower.

You sound lovely. I wish I worked with someone who brought in delicious cakes!

i wish I worked with you!

Wow that sounds like a them problem! This happens at my work too, but I can’t have any as I have coeliac disease. They need to develop some self control! If everyone else seems to enjoy your baking, just ignore them.

Their willpower is not your problem. And since you're not selling the cakes I really don't think the council are going to be concerned about doing a hygiene inspection!

Check with your manager.
Pop a note with list of ingredients next to the cake and you could add another saying. Not compulsory.

I don't have a problem with people bringing homemade cakes into work. I'm an adult and can choose what I eat.

However I also arrange events and know from the risk assessments that the food has to be clearly labelled, that would be my only concern if you went to management for clarification.

I am pretty sure it's okay to do this. As others have said, check with the boss and others in the office. If allowed and the general consensus is keep doing it, go with that.
Just take some fruit in for the two who have no willpower!

If you need a hygiene certificate- what’s happens when people bring baked stuff for a Macmillan coffee morning or the WI have a stand at a fete?!
Are they demanding all greggs, cake and sweet shops etc on their route to work to close, as it’s too much temptation too. All a bit daft really isn’t it!

I would take them in but put a big sighn by them saying " only for people not on a diet" or something. failing that send them my way

I try and eat healthy and swerve the biscuits people bring in. I sometimes curse myself for giving in but it would never occur to me to ask someone not to bring it!

Even if I don’t eat it I think it’s nice when someone has thought to bring in biscuits.

I love baking and every Friday we have cakes or biscuits in the office. The odd week I don't do it and there is genuine disappointment. I also have to make double as DH likes to take bakes in for his team!

Do this then OP! That’ll have her agog when you wave that at her.

She should be careful she isn't construed as trying to bully you!!!. if the dieter without willpower continues being strange is unable to resist the urge to stuff her face with your delicious creations, / gets annoyed I might be inclined to mention to your manager or HR that there is some bullying behaviour in the workplace. (Id probably also go through the workplace conduct manual and try and find anything which points to treating everyone the same way which you have obviously done. That's only if I felt sufficiently aggrieved and was feeling petty off course). Otherwise I might take a pack of kids mini raisins or some other no effort cake substitute.

Realistically id just keep the cake on your desk and send an email round or announce to come and ask me for your cake, everyone would fine say hi, grab theirs, no issue, when the moaners come you just say " if bit you're in a diet" loudly. They will give up they just like the idea of having something ti complain about.
You're not force feeding them.. they don't have to eat it. It's an offer and their choice.

It's lovely to work with friendly sharing considerate pepole, I don't know what is wrong with some pepole, they don't know when they are well off

As for food hygiene certificates, no child would ever take cakes to school or give for to anyone. If they are as deluded about that as they are with their diet no wonder they are struggling to lose weight, obviously need a complete reality check in general.

In several companies I worked in, people would bring in home made cakes and biscuits, or would bring in treats for the team if they'd been on vacation, we'd bring in birthday cakes and send a team email when new treats were on offer. It was lovely - take what you wanted and thank the giver or be an adult and abstain if you didn't want any. These two women should grow up and avert their eyes from the cakes in the staff room (so not actually near their desks, it sounds). 🌹

Oooo your good,that may set the cat among the pigeons.