Has anyone ever done this? If so, what would you considering buying and for how much?
BIL is having a yard sale this Fri/Sat and while I don't have much "junk" to sell right now the light bulb just clicked and I realized I may be able to make some dough by offering homemade treats, instead...
Re: Selling Baked Goods at Yard Sale?
Ahem, I am a yard sale queen- so....
If you are doing it, do water bottles and soda. $1.00 each. Treats can be $.50 or $1.00
You/your BIL also may want to consider setting up a grill and doing some hot dogs. People go nuts for hot dogs after a long tough day yard saling. lol.
Interesting! I have never heard of this!
Hm yeah I wasn't sure about permits/board of health laws. Do you know where I can find more info? The sale will be in Maineville/Landen in case you heard anything specifically about that.
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Thanks for all the thoughts ladies.
I XPed this to the Nat'l What's Cooking Board and it seems everyone there is skeeved out about the idea (and bake sales, too). Glad to see folks here don't think I'm crazy for considering it. Maybe it's a regional thing??
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Well generally the baked sales are done by small children... just to keep the occupied and make a little money.
BUT, from what I have seen, they always go over well around here.
I say go for it.
This is for Butler County but here is what was posted for us:-
PLEASE BE ADVISEDTHE CITY OF TRENTON HAS BEEN NOTIFIED THAT THE BUTLER COUNTY HEALTH DEPT. WILL BE CHECKING FOR TEMPORARY FOOD SERVICE LICENSES AT THE CITY WIDE GARAGE SALE EVENT THE WEEKEND OF MAY 20, 2011.
THE BUTLER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
TRENTON YARD SALE FOOD SERVICE GUIDELINES
The Butler County Health Department requires a temporary food service license for cooked food, food requiring refrigeration or frozen foods (i.e. ice cream).
Exempt food includes:
Canned or bottled sodas or water
Candy bars
Pre-packaged chips
For more information, please contact:
Butler County Health Department at 513-863-1770.
https://www.butlercountyohio.org/health/content/documents/fs_templicguideandappl.pdf
Hmmm I'm thinking this only applies to certain types of food (as stated "cooked food, food requiring refrigeration or frozen foods").
From what I can tell, Ohio has what's called the Cottage Food Law which does allow the sale of homemade bakery products (such as cookies, breads, brownies, cakes, pies, etc.); candy (including no-bake cookies, chocolate covered pretzels or similar chocolate covered non-perishable items); jams; jellies and fruit butter among other things (see link for full list) when following certain labeling guidelines.
I wish they would have said whether bakery products were exempt or not in that butler county document! lol. Anyway, thanks for the info!
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