Why do people bother with bake sales?

[managedmis]

Bake sale here today at work. By lunch time it's 2 for 1. Energy balls, rolled by people's grubby little fingers. Flaky bits of green stuff with almonds sticking out. Looks revolting. Bright orange muffins.

Why do people expect other people to buy other people's food?

You sound like fun.

You obviously have rubbish bake sales.

Because bake sales when they’re done properly can be fantastic.

Who are these people who think it's acceptable to take energy balls to a bake sale.

Bake sales are great, when they are sugar laden icing covered buns.

Honestly, can't understand why you haven't bought all the flaky bits of green stuff with almonds sticking out - they sound yummy.

Ugh, I'm with you OP. Thanks but no thanks or if you're feeling the pressure to buy, then it goes in the bin.

I don’t see the point but for the reason that it often costs the bakers more in ingredients than it raises via the buyers. Why should I spend ££ and precious time baking and then have to buy myself a bit of cake?

We have bake sales for charity every month or so. Even when we've worked out our costs the 'profit' is around £200 (we give it all to the charity, £300+ each time, we just worked out our costs cos we are sad like that ).

They can be fab as long as a) you sell what people actually want, and in the case of our place it usually has to include chocolate, and b) you sell them for enough money to make the effort worthwhile.

I love people like you who seem to think their food is entirely made from sterile elements by sterile robots. You don't like the choice, then don't buy. It's better if you don't investigate too much where you food comes from, and how it reaches you though

They’re always awful, but I still always buy something and bin it so I’m part of the problem really

You might just work with the wrong bakers, I’ve worked in places where people have brought in some really lovely stuff and it’s raised a fair whack for charity. But you don’t have to participate if you don’t want to.

I remember reading about people a few years ago who would put jiffy cloths and shit (not literally) in pork pies? They said they hardly ever had any complaints....kind of put me off processed food

Ours are usually pretty good, we have some talented bakers in our office. Unlike on mumsnet, where people are busy rinsing their vaginas with zoflora and having meltdowns about germs, most people are happy to eat stuff colleagues have cooked.

I love bake sales because I love cake! And I don't share

Our school asks us to donate cakes, so that they can sell them back to us! We all oblige like little sheep..

I love a bake sale. I love home made cakes but cat be arsed to make them myself.

I did a chocolate cake for a bake sale then got asked for the recipe.(It was a Jane Asher one.) If you don't like, don't buy.

Ah I presume you're one of the MN anti-bac, germophobe crowd, OP. Most of us frequently eat food made by other people. And we actually enjoy it and are still alive! I've even eaten things from primary school bake sales that were made by grubby little children's hands.

Im with you OP
When the add that little Tabitha helped decorate the fairy cakes with snot and Norovirus
I always fed them to DH

I love cake so if you have half decent bakers in your office, bake sales are great. However I do think they would make more money by just asking people to donate the money they would have spent on ingredients and decorations

I don't know. Tbh I don't bother with them due to food allergies in the family. I don't trust strangers food preparation standards.

Yes I’m always amused at the annual Christmas fair bake sale. Bring in a cake and buy a cake. The prices are usually less than the cost of making the cake. But my daughter enjoys doing it and the money is for a good cause.

Your colleagues need to bake some better stuff if they want to make a reasonable amount for charity. We have clients that come in especially when we have bake sales because we do them well - quality cakes that don't look like someone's sat on them, sausage rolls and various scones (people who aren't sure if they'll like the cake will always have a scone).

I used to buy from work bake sales until I saw one of the main contributors come out of a cubicle and leave the ladies' without washing her hands.

Where have all these people come from who don't like home made cake? At work we did the MacMillan coffee morning and raised over a £1000 and all the left over cake went to a homeless shelter. And we had fun...

I'm in an association that organises free events for kids in our comunity. We held a bake sale last weekend and had an amazing turn out, hardly anything left after two hours and we raised over £300 for our events, so yes bake sales are good, if you've got good bakes to sell of course.