Would you eat something homemade in the office?

[Noschky]

husband has a small business. During the festive period I tend to drop off sweet treats as a way of showing appreciation. I have always bought these treats in the past from bakeries/ supermarkets etc. This year I’m on maternity leave and thought it might be name to bake something myself. I’m a decent baker.

im just concerned that some people can be a bit funny about homemade goods due to hygiene concerns. I am a type A clean freak.

but should I just not bother or will something homemade be seen as a nice gesture?

I would much prefer something homemade. It's just better in every way!

I would.

No one brings home made goodies to my work, though.

Homemade used to go better than shop bought in our place

Hell yes! Every office I have ever worked in home made things go down very well.

I am sure you will get the odd person who is funny but I can assure you someone else is going to be very grateful they get two!

Always, our team really appreciates people’s homemade treats

No point in getting fat on shop cakes, most of them aren’t worth the calories - homemade all the way for me please.

Of course. There are people who won't but they are in the minority and are ridiculously OTT about the horrors of germs.

There are few things I like more than colleagues bringing in their (generally very good) home baked goods!

Some people will, some people won’t. Don’t otherthink it: enough people will be appreciative and eat the treats, and even those who are persnickety about hygiene will acknowledge effort has been made even if they don’t want to try them.

I would

Another vote for I would.

I have brought in homemade goods to work before and they disappear very fast indeed!

If it was made by adults yes. As a teacher I have been less keen on student baked goods donated after cooking lessons.

Yeah definitely I'd eat it. Obviously you need to be able to list any allergens.

And if you were going to try and cater to a coeliac for example, I'd be concerned about cross contamination.

But it's a lovely idea. If someone is too scared to eat home cooked food from anywhere other than their own house then they must be great fun at Xmas parties!

Not everyone is a pearl clutching MN refusenik of everything from opening the door to eating home made food.

Most of us are normal and could not refuse a fresh Brownie if it was delivered in the garden wheelbarrow.

But I presume you look to have normal and respectable standards of hygiene and are not offering these as a by-product of baking activity with a toddler?

Sounds fantastic OP - go for it!

Not a chance unless I'd been in the house where they were made.

The amount of people on Mumsnet alone who think it's fine to put dog bowls in the dishwasher is enough to make me not even consider it.

100% yes. One of my colleagues is making cookies for everyone as an Xmas gift. Personalising them with the icing.

100% in the homemade camp. Colleague brought in some homemade baked goods today and within a couple of hours it was gone. Some will be iffy but most people wolf down sweet treats, homemade or shop bought.

I'v'e never seen anything homemade staying long enough for anyone having time to ask the question.

If one in the office is an MN hysterical poster, that will be more for everybody else

I’d eat it - the only time I refused in work was when the person who baked smelt it rat piss! So I declined

We just did one of those BBC Children iN need Coffee morning things with everyone bringing in home made.... went down a storm.

There is always that one person who won't touch home made, and that's fine. But the vast bulk of people are normal and love a good home made brownie or cake or muffin or whatever.

It's always just a matter of time before one pops up 🤣🤣

Homemade stuff mostly gets eaten where I work. I don’t eat things certain people have made because they have questionable hygiene imo, one smokes in her house and while she’s working etc and another has lots of cats and dogs and smells of cats and dogs and is covered in a fine layer of pet hair!
Both colleagues are lovely, but I don’t want to eat anything that’s come from their kitchens.

Some people will call that fussy, I’m fine with that!

Don’t overanalyse it, just send him in with a box of biscuits or whatever. The box will come home empty at some point regardless!

I hope for their sake they are NEVER going to have a look at food processing places/ storage/ transport and never ever going to a cafe or restaurant 😂😂

I'm retired now but over my many years of office cake sales homemade always gets sold out way before shop bought.