How to Start Home-Made Foods Business

You'll need a clean home and be prepared for local authorities or food standards agencies to come visiting to check that all your food preparation areas and equipment is of satisfactory standard.

You'll do better by finding a niche that you're good at and there's plenty to choose from, including:

• Cakes and Biscuits
• Sandwiches
• Salads
• Eggs
• Pasta Dishes
• Pies
• Jams
• Chutney
• Soups

Depending on your niche there could be lots of early mornings, late nights or weekend work involved.

Be prepared to give away free samples of food to potential customers.

Here's more detail about the small business idea of making home made cakes and biscuits:

 Home Made Biscuits and Cakes

• One of the most cosy ideas for a home based business is the one of baking your own biscuits and cakes and selling them for a profit.
• Your customers would be places such as local farm shops, small scale local wholesalers, cafes and perhaps even retirement homes for the elderly.
• You could also hire a stall at a fair or fete, or even on a regular market.
• Social networking sites can help spread the word about what you're up to!
• If you're a skilled baker you could specialize with gluten, dairy or wheat free products, although your customer market will be smaller if you do.
• If you're new to baking you can find online training at The Bakery School.
• You have to register with your local council as a food provider at least 28 days before you begin to trade. Their environmental health department will want to take a look at your 'domestic' kitchen to make sure it's up to scratch before they allow you to run this type of home business.
• You'll need a separate sink for washing and you'll have to keep any pets out of your kitchen.
• You'll also need space to separately store raw ingredients away from your finished biscuits and cakes.
• Just because you bake at home doesn't mean you can get away with wrapping your goods in a brown paper bag and delivering it to your customer!
• The Food Labeling Regulations require you to list ingredients, best before date, storage instructions and your name and address. You should also list any allergy risks.
• On top of that you'll need suitable packaging.
• Useful resources include cakedecorating.co.uk and cakeinternational.co.uk.
• You should join the British Society of Baking and apply for Safe and Local Supplier Approval.
  
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