"Dave Smith" > wrote
> Nuts to school bake sales. I made the mistake of contributing to one when
> my son was in elementary school. I gladly bought the ingredients and put
> in the effort to make several batches of cookies. I was disappointed to
> see that they sold them for a fraction of the cost of the ingredients. If
> I had known they were going to practically give them away I would have
> just given them the money and saved myself the work.
>
> However.... given the low prices... they might be a good way to get baked
> goods cheap.

The problem with bake sales is that most stuff is cheap and poor quality.
Your cookies were probably an exception and well worth a higher price but
the people in charge had no idea. While I understand the charitable
donation part, I seldom buy at a bake sale because of the poor quality of
the cakes, but sometimes you do find a real winner.

When the kids were in school they had a sale and my wife donated a nice
(from scratch) decorated cake, as did a few others. They were either sold or
raffled for $25 to $50 each. Plain old cakes went for $5 to $10