Bringing baked goods into work

[Bibblybumblebee]

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?

What a lovey manager and hr team to have. Nice to see some common sense in the work place

I have an image in my mind of a group photo of traybake, happy boss & workmates tucking in with grumbling pair scowling in the background.

I'm far too invested in this aren't I? 🍰

I'd email everyone in the office and say something like:
Hi all!
Unfortunately fun sponge 1 and fun sponge 2 have asked me not to bring cakes in anymore as they're trying to be good, also they've said they're going to report me to HR for not having a food hygiene certificate. So sorry I won't be able to bring any more cakes in!

Then let the miserable bints deal with the fallout!
I wonder how they cope with a supermarket shop? Do they ring Tesco's and ask them to screen off the cakes before they go there??

I used to be a lecturer, one college I worked in banned all home made food sharing. Their view was, if someone had a food allergy or got food poisoning, it would be the responsibility of the the person that made the food as there are no labels with ingredients. The only good we could share was packet food bought from a shop.

Please do this @Bibblybumblebee 😂😂

People can learn the word no, I am sure there is a course that can be done on it

I am too!

Love a bit a cake in the office! 😁

They don't have to eat the cakes.
They sound really boring. Don't worry, you keep baking! I'm sure your other colleagues appreciate it

Obviously 🙄

I like these responses!

I was once told not to buy my team presents incase my peer didn't do the same- they didn't. My daughter bakes gifts and as she is allergic to some nuts she never uses them. That's the only real risk.

Much as I love (really love!) cake, and appreciate that people are doing a nice thing by bringing it in to work, I also wish it wasn't so prevalent. It's hard to resist when it's always there. Ironically, I work in the NHS (trying to prevent type 2 diabetes, hypertension, CVD, etc), in a sedentary job, with colleagues who are just as overweight as the general population and who would really benefit from not being tempted by so many sweet treats on a regular basis. So yes, it's "nice", we enjoy it, but I really wish people would stop bringing it in.

And to everyone saying they should just use willpower, and that no-one is forcing them to eat the cakes, do you realise that willpower is a finite thing and can't be relied upon?

The results offer a few takeaways: (1) trying to resist temptations via willpower is draining, (2) simply facing temptations, whether or not we resist them, is draining and (3) being mentally drained from experiencing temptations correlates directly with making less progress. The key takeaway, then, isn’t to engage temptation with force of will, but to avoid temptations from the get-go or at least minimize exposure whenever possible.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/neuronarrative/201701/heres-why-your-resolutions-cant-rely-willpower-alone

"it's not my fault you can't help yourself"

Please update us whennyou take in the cherry bakewell.
4 of our consultants at work regularly make cakes and we all really appreciate the gesture. X

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

That would be the case if the OP was bringing in home baking every day - but she is a) only doing them roughly every 6 weeks and b) she puts them on a table that people can choose to go to, rather than taking them round everyone's desks insisting they have some

They probably wear blinkers in case they have to walk past a Greggs on the way home.

Take them in some dust.

...Little Britain dust? In Stoke "take them in some dust" means something completely different :)

Drop some into HR lol - what a bunch of witches. You def won't get in trouble.

"Trying to be good" lol, learn to cope! (Them not you!)

People talking about diets triggers me as I am recovering from an eating disorder. I actually had to ask a colleague to stop commenting on my food or referring to good and bad food. It was constant. If it was every week you were bringing it in maybe they would have a point but every six weeks we probably end up with cake in anyway for someone's birthday.

When you're living and working with other people, you don't get to call the shots and be pandered to, sorry.
The majority of op's colleagues are happy with the baking; the others will just have to avert their eyes...

We work in an office and do bake off as something to build moral. How ridiculous

A colleague bought in a fantastic cake to my dept today. I am cutting down so didn't have a piece, simple. People have always done this. I'd ask the opinion of all the others and say that the two women have questioned it. They'll soon be the most unpopular people in the team. I'm pretty sure HR would love a piece of cake as well!!!!