Bringing baked goods into work

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I really enjoy baking - I’m quite good - only thing I’m really any good at!
I like baking traditional cakes like Victoria sponge, lemon drizzle, carrot.

I normally bake on the weekend and sometimes bake a tray bake cake and take it to work.
I work in a team of about 10 people. So there’s plenty for everyone to help themselves- it’s normally demolished by Wednesday.

2 woman I work with are always on a diet or talking about fitness - both in there late 50s.
One of them asked to have a word with me today and said her and this other woman both agree it’s not appropriate to bring in homemade cakes to work because it’s unhealthy and not fair when people are trying to be ‘good’.
She also said that if I could be reported to HR as I haven’t had a hygiene rating certificate at home. She said she’s worried if someone got sick from my homemade food I could get in trouble.

AIBU to feel a bit upset about this. My home is spotless my kitchen is clean.

I think these woman have just got food issues but I am worried they could report me.

I don’t bake cakes every week. Maybe once every 6 weeks.

Whats your opinion on people being in baked goods from home into work?

@LaurieFairyCake :

"Have you tried saying 'Fuck off you fat greedy spoilsport cunty chops' ?"

I love when people bring baked goods into work and as has already been said as you are not selling them to anyone a hygiene certificates etc is not required!

I would just say I have asked everyone and they would like me to keep making cakes so please feel free not to eat them.

In the United Kingdom , if you're baking at home and bringing treats into the workplace for colleagues, the rules are a bit different.

When it comes to sharing homemade baked goods in a non-commercial setting like an office, there isn't a strict requirement for individuals to hold a hygiene certificate. This is because such activities are generally considered low-risk in terms of food safety, especially if basic hygiene practices are followed.

personally i always prefer home made cakes etc

"She said she’s worried if someone got sick from my homemade food I could get in trouble."

How civic of her! But if she's always on a diet, maybe you could mention that you're terribly worried that, if she fell and lost her balance (especially if she had not been eating and felt faint), she might land on someone at work and crush them to death?

I love baking and take something into work most Mondays as it is my Sunday hobby. Nobody has ever expressed a concern about being forced to eat cake and nobody has complained about being my new-recipe test subjects! They get free cake and I get to find new ideas that work.
Keep doing what you love and there will always be people who appreciate your lovely contributions!

She’s hangry!

At my last school, we had a morning tea roster - every Friday for our department of 6 people. Home baking was de rigueur. There were Spanish, French, Chinese and Japanese teachers producing their favourite national cakes/treats. It became something of a competition for the most deliciousness. It was the highlight of our week, and we counted on the yummy cakes to get us through to the weekend.

Is this you?

Once in six weeks and they’re having a moan? I smell an eating disorder.

I’d be tempted to send an email around inviting everyone in the office who likes cake to meet at the pub after work this week, and saying that you’ll be handing over a wrapped slice of cake at the pub to each person to take home. Just to make sure that the handover is off work premises and breaks NO H&S rules whatsoever, you see…

Take a carrot cake in on Monday and one carrot each for the two dieters.

Banana bread/two bananas next week. Black Forest/cherries the next. You get the picture…

We once did a Showstopper day as a fundraiser for cancer research and everyone brought in, well, a show stopping cake. I had small (some big) slices of a wide range of my favourite cakes. Possibly one of the best days of my life…

Not everyone's response here but I'd make a healthy version (ie slimming world recipe), repeatedly pointing out its the healthy version of whichever cake it is) ask everyone to say how dry it is and that they prefer your usual cakes. Now your cakes have been requested they can quietly sulk in the corner 😂

@Jo58 this had me chuckling!!

OP keep spreading joy with baking, I miss my old job at school, we had cake Friday where one yeargroup was responsible for bringing cake/biscuits in each Friday so we always had something to look forward to at the end of the week. The table would be baren by lunchtime every Friday 😂
I implemented cake Friday when I left for an office job but we’ve been wfh for a year due to office closure. We’ve got a new office secured for the end of the year and we are all excited about the restart of cake Friday, those who don’t want it can easily avoid it.
As long as you aren’t forcing it on people I think you’re fine- we just put contributions in one area of the staffroom and anyone who fancies something can help themselves.

Good god. I bake cake for work and a tray bake lasts about an hour at the most. Those women in my office would get laughed out the door. If they don't want to eat it - for whatever reason - that's their choice.

I'd pre-empt them and go to HR myself and ask if there's an issue with it.

Aah 😄. Happens!

Maybe there's a simple solution to this:

Starting now, they are no longer included in the open offer. Free homemade cake is for everybody except them. In fact, if they take some of the cake, you may consider reporting them to HR for theft. Mind, this is purely out of consideration towards them, not malice — you just want to help by making it very clear the cake is Not For Them, and then they can't possibly be tempted by it. There's no way they can object to that, right?

Threatening HR because it stops them being good..so how do they manage to be good outside work.
Oi Janet its not my fault you're a gannet.😃😋

I cannot believe people get on like this! Your baking and bringing into work is a lovely gesture- and very normal! Keep doing it- everyone apart from this woman loves it- they are not obliged to eat or even look at your cakes!
You won't get in any trouble!

You could stop taking cakes in for a while and when your colleagues ask why, tell them the truth!!!!

These two miseries will be very unpopular!

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

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). 🌹

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.

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

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!