Bringing baked goods into work

@paintingvenice yes I think that went on with the plums for a time! I seemed to be making lots of plum cake for a few weeks :) I am now wondering if I left any bananas tonight that I should have taken home!

Their lack of self restraint is not your problem.

You aren't force feeding or inflicting cake on anyone.

If HR even attempted to raise something like this I would have a field day. In exchange for no longer making cake, I would request any entire bin on people who talk about fitting in the workplace - no more discussions of food, being, weighing scales, inches lost etc

If there's a bring your whole self to work policy, it's part of your whole self so cannot be restricted.

If you identify as a Baker, how will people know without the cake?

You could also just bring 2 plates every week. Put the cake on one - label it, real cake, lots of calories. Leave the second plate empty but label it invisible cake - no calorie option.

In my last office the baker was ironically also the one who was watching what she ate. In fact that’s why she would bring in the baked goods. We were her Guinea pig and disposal unit.

She loved to bake but didn’t want the temptation at home so it was a win-win situation

OP, carry on and don’t let them change what you do.

YANBU , just because you take cake I'm doesn't mean that are obliged to eat it.
I love cake but occassionally people have brought (shop bought) doughnuts or cakes that I not keen on - so rude!!🤣🤣 - so I don't eat them.

They are probably MN food police tbh though. I never knew so many people could be aghast at home made cakes until I joined MN. Any school fair I've been to, the cake stall is the first to sell out and nobody at my workplace has ever turned down home made cake ....but then joined MN and found people have all manner of qualms about it (mostly hygeine related rather than health related)

‘feeders’ oh piss off

Please put a note on your next one.
"This is a Victoria Sponge.
Not a Fun Sponge."

Miserable bitches.

I have lovely memories of working with two women who liked to bake for the rest of us. To go and have your miserable instant coffee at break time and then find a wonderful homemade cake to eat with it really used to make my day. It is probably 20 years ago now but I remember once having hazelnut pavlova with apricot sauce...incredible...

Keep up the good work, op!

I'm on chemo at the moment. The Unit staff occasionally have a 'bring home-baked cake to work' day to raise money. Brownies, carrot cake, sponge, lemon drizzle, apple spice cake and so on! No wittering on about Food Hygiene certs or unhealthy temptation; just dig in and enjoy.

You know you don’t have to eat what ‘feeders’ bring in.

YABVU - because now I feel like I need to go and bake something! I have a sudden urge for buttercream icing. A nice sponge with lots of buttercream...

I would tell them that is a"you" issue and to cop the bleep on. Of they don't partake they won't have to worry about you poisoning them.

I often bring in some of the avalanche of goodies that arrive here.

Gosh, there are some truly joyless people around.

There was one at my last place of work. He wouldn't eat anything that he hadn't cooked himself. He wouldn't even eat his mum's cooking. Weird since she had clearly got him to adulthood without mishap.

He used to get terribly grumpy about people taking cakes in to work. Would have a hissy fit if he saw any crumbs on a desk. Until someone told him bluntly that he didn't have to eat it, others were enjoying it, and would he please mind his own business.

I think you need to move to my workplace. That is all.

Ask them what f they remember the old comedy sketches when people used to get a custard pie in the face, tell them you’re thinking of baking some….

Lady I worked with would always bring in sausage rolls. She was my hero. More savoury bakes please, if anyone is listening

God, they'd be lynched in our place if they said such a ridiculous thing!!! You carry on, you're doing a lovely thing and if they can't control themselves then that's their problem!
As an aside, we have a couple of bakers amongst our staff and their Lemon Love/ Chocolate brownies are the best ever!!
It's Ramadan and one of our pupils has brought the most incredible food in every day for the staffroom....we are very grateful!

I would ignore them and start bringing them in more regularly, but then I can be a bit like that. I'd love to see them report you to HR 🤣 they would get laughed out the door.

I'm not a cake eater and very rarely even work in an office these days, but I think it's lovely when people share food, especially when it's home-made.

Fuck 'em, OP. They can grow their own willpower.

They sound awful OP, take no notice.

I've never worked anywhere where home baking wasn't welcomed. If it continues to make you happy, crack on. Pair of misery guts.

It's been a while since we had this thread. There was a time it was a weekly occurrence 😂 🍰

You're no more responsible for what others choose to eat, than they are for you.

Ignore them obviously.

Love the idea of just taking their healthy fruit and caking it. I’d be hiding it so you had more to work with. “Oh look at all the apples left Isabelle, crumble on Monday?”

Miserable cunts

This is one thing I miss with working from home. Nothing beats a homemade cake- delicious and can often try some things that are quite different from shop bought sadness. Easter biscuits sound “cracking” 🥚🐣

The diet is making them miserable.

^THIS^

Your colleague is an idiot.

Take celery for the whingers.

We have weekly free fruit in my office and if the bananas don't get eaten I normally take them home to bake banana bread which is always well received the following week.
Some people would give certain peoples baked goods a wide berth due to hygiene but that is there choice.