selling cakes at car boot?

chicaloca

well the time has now come....cant put off the boot sale any longer! really dont want to have to get up and be there for 5.30am......wayyyy too early! anyway i was wondering, has anyone else baked things to sell at a car boot or is this normally not done?

Bloomin_Freezing2

Never seen it myself, but do see people selling just out of date crisps and chocolate bars by the box so food is something people may buy.

hermum

You need to have the kitchen inspected by environmental health, & have food handling cert.
I knew people who last year were stopped from selling home grown rhubarb as they didn't have a cert to prove that it was ok. They think from what the organiser was saying it was to do with pesticides that they may have used. In their case was none but Elf & Safety says no.

chicaloca

oh hadnt realised that, thanks for the warning before i baked myself into a frenzy!

Strapped

You can sell food at a car boot but you might find no-one will buy it (I wouldn't!)

jabdc5

check with the car boot organisers, some boot fairs don't allow food to be sold.

mymerrywidow

there is often cake and sweet sellers at our local boot fairs, but i wouldnt touch them with a barge pole. just stand back and watch how much dust thrown up from the car park lands on their fresh food. yuk. and they are out in the sunshine and cakes go stale very quickly in the sun.

also you would have to declare that there can be a allergy risk, i.e peanuts etc.

hermum

chicaloca wrote: »

oh hadnt realised that, thanks for the warning before i baked myself into a frenzy!

Some years ago there was a car boot that I went to where someone sold home baking & it sold out really fast, she had to give up due to all the rules & regs.
She only ever had one of each on the table, cello wrapped & the rest were in cool boxes in the back of the van.
I personally think that we've become too obsessed with everything being sparkly clean. I'd rather buy a cake from someone baked at home with decent ingredients than some of the supermarket stuff that has a shelf life of weeks.
There is a making money from home baking thread somewhere, possibly on the Up Your Income Board.
It may be worth looking at that.

bubs

I've seen on odd occasions people selling cakes or homemade jams etc at our local car boot, which is a huge one. To be honest not many people were buying. I felt a little sorry for one lady who was selling some cakes she'd made alongside her other normal car boot stuff and bought a cake from her, it was lovely. It wasn't a hot day and she'd cellophane wrapped everything. Best check with the organiser and perhaps just take a few and see how it goes. Good luck!

emerald_starcat

Last year at our car boot this woman was selling home baked items. It did put me off though as she seemed to be a chain smoker and chain smoked for the whole duration of the car boot.

Strapped

emerald_starcat wrote: »

Last year at our car boot this woman was selling home baked items. It did put me off though as she seemed to be a chain smoker and chain smoked for the whole duration of the car boot.

Not to mention who knows how black their kitchen is, whether they have long hair trailing and dirty fingernails, and do they lick the spoon and pick their nose while baking. Yuk yuk yuk (sorry OP, I'm sure your kitchen is spotless but these are the things that people will be wondering).