Cost of food 😱

Of course it's not your responsibility, but that doesn't mean they're charging too much either.

But it’s not my responsibility to pay their bills. I have mine to pay.

But the baker will still have the same overheads and costs. I think a lot of people on here have absolutely no idea how expensive it is to run your own business and make a profit.

So presumably you don’t think the baker should make any kind of profit if you think £3.50 is a ridiculous price?

A proper old fashioned church fete is usually cheaper . I avoid artisan or farmers’ markets as they are sooo pricey. I’m a reasonable cook so I’m not paying £10 for a pot of jam that costs pence to make! We call those events the ‘I saw you coming’ market in homage to that Harry Enfield sketch.
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Well I have never heard of a loaded cookie before! (Need to try one now defo) These sort of outdoor events are normally marked up though, My friend says that they are no different from SB TTD or Tesco finest.You are paying for the experience of eating them in a nice place,someones home baking and some money for the fete

It does feel expensive initially, but these loaded cookies use a lot of expensive ingredients. if its someone's business you also pay a bit of the other business costs.

I know the first time i made a cake for the school fair voluntarily, then saw how much they sold it for, it would have been more cost effective to just donate money as my ingredient cost was high for the cake I made.

I bought 2 loaded cookies at Millies (Haven park) yesterday, 2 for £6. A local lady has a business selling simular products (which are delicious) at our local weekly market and sells them for a simular price. That price is pretty much the norm now for these products unless you buy from the supermarket. It does seem expensive but it's not something you buy every day. It's a treat. I'd much rather give a local lady the money, than a big corporation like Millies.

I'd imagine loaded cookies are more fiddly to make than brownies, where you just melt the chocolate, butter and sugar together, stir in flour, eggs and nuts/choc chips etc and pour into a tin and bake so very quick and easy to make and not expensive using value chocolate bars, which are perfectly decent quality.

To be fair op, this is not the cost of food. This is people trying to fundraise and get what they can for the cause.
Get yourself down to Lidl or make them yourself.

It’s a fete!

I guess they're just for people who can't be bothered to make them themselves.

I bought 2 brownies at our local deli yesterday...£9.
They were sublime

It's not really food that you have to have, it's a treat type food which is often expensive

Im a decent homebaker and in all honesty can rarely justify paying to buy this sort of thing. The equipment required is stuff I (and most people) have at home already, i can save on energy by baking at the same time as our evening meal, and i don't need to pay myself a wage for my time. This means I can make something with the best quality ingredients etc for far less.

Most loaded cookies I’ve seen are £4-5. So £3.50 is lower than average. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

A freddo pack now has 4 in (down from 5 last month and 6 18months ago) and it's £1.25

4 multipack of cadbury anything (whisper, caramel, dairy milk, twirl)is at least £2 now usually £3 I'm not surprised artisan cakes cost that when even the cheap ingredients are expensive

Yes, I'm well aware of what they're like thank you & £3.50 IS ridiculous in MY opinion,

you are entitled to your own opinion, it doesn't make it fact.

And it makes me cry, but I still buy 1 jar where they sell local raw honey if I happen to find a local event on my travels (I'm a honey worshipper and probably an idiot as well).
There are about 3 small independent shops where I live selling local honey from some local gardens, very small scale beekeepers within a 10-15 miles radius. Equally expensive. My favourite honey will no longer be produced, the beekeeper is giving up their beehives, apparently not doing too well this year and they also struggled a bit last year . This is a real worry, their garden is not that far from my house and in my own garden I've only seen 1 bee this year I think . I've either seen the same bee twice or two different bees, on the same flower but on different days. Nothing else so far.

OP I agree with you, those prices are high. Not unusual but still high.
Baking can't possibly be a profitable business at today's prices for ingredients. Plus all the fancy packaging they often use. Not to mention the cost of running an oven. I don't know why people bother with various cake/cookies making businesses. It must be heartbreaking when real passion and skill are involved.
I used to bake a lot, often adventurous or elaborate recipes. I'd often bake when friends asked me where they'd gave a charity cake sale at their work. It used to be quite an investment on my part but I didn't mind at all and I'd never tell them how much it cost me. I enjoyed doing it and cost wasn't a real issue. I stopped all that and I bake a lot less for us as well. Too expensive to prepare a good quality cake.

Sounds ghastly 😂😂

Thanks, now I know what to watch out for!

I’ll never forget my rage at paying £19 for 2 sugar and lemon crepes at a festival a couple of years ago 😂😂😂
I don’t mind paying for good food and quality ingredients but no one can convince me that this was either, and they were served on one polystyrene plate with a plastic fork!!

I do begrudge spending a lot of money on baked goods where corners have been cut, margarine instead of proper butter (depending on what’s been baked), cheap chocolate stuffed with fat/oil, just shortcuts. I understand that good ingredients cost more but why am I being charged so much for shit ingredients?

That's £3.50 each, which is the same price as at the small and not affluent town in Yorkshire so the type of place the average Mumsnetter would shudder at the mention of, I visited today.

I didn't buy one because they were queuing out the door and down the street and my parking ticket was about to run out. But clearly plenty of people thought they were worth the money.

They can charge what they want, you don't have to buy them