Reciprocating neighbour sharing her baking

[Kinsters]

My neighbour loves to bake and cook and is really very good at it. She often shares what she bakes and DH thinks we should reciprocate by baking and giving stuff to her. But I don't bake and neither does he!

I do reciprocate in other ways like if I can do something for her or if I'm buying something special I'll sometimes pick something up for her. But I don't bake! I'm bad at it! I'll make my DD banana muffins or something like that for her breakfast but they seem a bit of an odd thing to give.

What would you do? Would you feel obliged to try and bake something nice enough to share? Or just take the view that neighbourly giving is according to what you have available and not something that you make specially. I'm definitely overthinking this but DH is of the former view and I'm the later so I'm second guessing myself.

That'd be quite an odd thing to do. Reciprocate in other ways.

Reciprocating in other ways is much more appropriate IMO.

Ok, I a bit like your neighbour. Recently have taken up baking but find it hard reduce down some receipes. I have a small freezer and don't want to waste food so often offer it to my neighbours. To be honest I really don't want anything in return. I am just grateful to have mainly lovely neighbours (particular after some of the threads here).

My neighbour does the same for us! Pops round with cakes, it would be an insult for me to take my baking round for her tbh and I don't feel too bad about not recuperating. We get on well, I will take their bins out and they do the same, we chat over the fence etc. I've recommended her to friends which I know she appreciated and I've also paid (albeit mates rates) for my kids bday cakes so she knows I'm not taking advantage. Unfortunately I don't have any talents but if they needed anything they know they could ask and vice versa and hopefully we will do a bbq over the summer so I'll take nice food then and perhaps get a small garden toy for her DD as they've just had the garden done! Xx

I used to bake a lot when I lived abroad waiting for a work visa. Sent the lot in to work with OH to share with colleagues, they were doing me a favour and I never expected anything back!