Would you be grossed out by homemade baked good in care package?

[BusyTraybake]

I am helping my sister put together care packages for her wedding. She is paying for the wedding party to stay in a posh hotel for a few nights. We are going to leave little care packages on the bed. I have an exceptional brownie recipe and was going to leave a trio of favours in the box. But sister’s SIL says she would never eat a homemade treat due to hygiene reasons.

obviously I will be clinically clean and wil even wear a hair net as I couldn’t think of anything worse than someone finding a hair.

Who is being weird?

I'd eat it!

I wouldn't call it a "care package" though.

I'd eat it. I love going to village fetes where they have a cake stall.
I'd rather have a bag of mini eggs though😊

I wouldn't eat them either.

My sister used to do traybakes and school cakes and sells them. I moved her microwave once and it was full of mouse poo behind it.

Just came back from town where there’s a lovely stall selling fresh pizza with a food hygiene rating of 5. We often buy there. Anyway, I saw a woman with a pair of gloves and hairnet on - great - LICK her fingers of the gloves and continued whatever she was doing - which wasn’t washing her hands.

So I wouldn’t eat it either sorry.

I would eat it. I do bake and I enjoy buying home baked goods. I always think if they are cooked it gets rid of the germs.

I'd much rather eat home baked goods than over-processed soya and palm oil greasiness.

I would definitely eat them but I'm not fussy about germs. Of course some people's hygiene could be disgusting but tbh if I started down that rabbit hole I would never leave the house.

As someone has already pointed out, don’t people eat from bake sales? I have lost track of all the cakes I’ve eaten at the school gates. Not been sick yet! I’d happily eat a nice homemake favour!

I'd eat it, I'd never given a second thought to buying stuff from the PTA bake sale or the Presbyterian coffee morning before I came in Mumsnet!

I would love this, although I'm another one confused by 'care package'- thought it was going to be packs for the elderly or something. But sounds lovely.

Gosh it would never have occurred to me that anyone would have an issue with eating homemade cakes, allergies aside. I'd love having some homemade brownies left for me.

We had homemade shortbread as favours at our wedding and it went down a storm - I'd also made the wedding cake, which again, was well received with not much left at the end of the night.

food hygiene rating for a start

This. I understand allergies, but not people who worry about home made baked goods. They know that baking involves hot ovens, yes?

That's the thing though, if they do that in a 5 star hygiene rated place, then your only option to avoid risk would be to never eat anything you hadn't cooked yourself and who wants to be that restricted?

I don’t mind homemade stuff if someone is clean/normal.

But I have a friend who is quite physically gross, always talking about gross stuff, picks at her face 🤢 and spits when she talks. She has taken to baking stuff for me and it’s awkward to say the least. The second I can, I yeet it into the bin 😅

I’m sure you’re fine.

Okay, sure. But honestly, what exactly do you think the aveage person does in their kitchen? You cook the brownies You stick them in a box. Job done!?

I would hope people aroudn me or who know me don't think I'm some disgusting unhygeniec slob.

I've never been given a brownie that I haven't eaten immediately.

We don't eat others' homemade food for hygienic reasons. They would go in the bin, sorry.

Tbh all of this faff (personal notes, treats, welcome kits, etc.) is eye-rolling. It's an ordinary wedding, not the second coming. Best wishes to the marrying couple but guests don't need all of these embellishments. It's kind of presumptuous to think that the event is so exceptional that souvenirs, etc., are required. No offense but it's a lot of expense, energy and use of the planet's dwindling resources for something that will be forgotten about or put to back of mind 48 hours later.

We eat out far too often so we won’t stop but I think if I was going to a wedding this weekend and knew something was homemade (with no idea who they were and what their kitchen was like) I’d give it to my husband.

It depends - if it looks clean / fresh / appetising I will probably eat it - if it doesn't (like the cakes a friend gave me recently) I will bin it. Totally irrational since I've no way of knowing the prep conditions - you eat with the eyes first, as they say!

I really couldn't care less about stuff like this, I'd eat it happily and I think this sort of fastidiousness is ridiculous.

The idea that you'll happily eat a mass produced cake that's been made in a factory by people you don't know probably working minimum wage, using industrially produced materials, but that you wouldn't eat one that was made with love by someone you know is the definition of insane to me....

But there's a lot of this sort of thing about.

Same! I think home made cakes are infinitely nicer than shop bought and used to make biscuits and home made truffles for my DDs teachers when they were at nursery/primary school. I didn't realise until I joined MN how many people would avoid them, and feel a bit silly.

As an aside I'd never heard of a care package at a wedding, I was expecting from the title, it to be something you gave to someone after a hospital stay or if they were unwell

In the real world most people would eat these and love the idea.

It all sounds very twee for wedding guests.

If they were gluten free I'd happily eat them, but so many people are very fussy and paranoid about this kind of thing that I probably wouldn't do it if it were my wedding tbh.