<p>Hey everyone!
Just wondering if any of your schools have also banned bake sales due to some new federal guidelines, and what you are planning to do (or already have done) instead!
I'm not quite sure as to how many schools have also banned bake sales, but I know, from personal experience, that it really stinks!
Have a wonderful day! :)</p>
<p>My school also banned bake sales a few years ago because of federal guidelines. However, these laws only apply to bake sales during the school day, so now clubs have bake sales on assigned days before and after school.</p>
<p>Yeah my school banned bake sales this year too!
Some teachers who give food out for rewards for fundraisers and other stuff are trying to get past it.
Thanks (Michelle) Obama</p>
<p>@geros9 wow! My school has never allowed for bake sales during the day because of a contract with food services, and now we have to wait like 30 minutes after school to have one, though by then, school is basically a desert!</p>
<p>@17Angel- I feel like many, many high school students now really, really dislike Michelle Obama because of this! </p>
<p>I also forgot to add that if a group wants to do a bake sale during lunch, they can sell pencils and give away a free baked good with the purchase of a pencil. Pretty crazy, right?</p>
<p>Technically because of county guidelines, we shouldn’t be able to have our doughnut sales to raise money for prom. But we kind of play it off as “before school” thing. (We only do doughnuts a couple times a year. Students order by the dozen.)</p>
<p>@17Angel I’m pretty sure its not Michelle Obama’s fault, in all my years of schooling I never had bake sales, even before Michelle Obama.</p>
<p>@dsi411 Schools can decide whether or not they have bake sales and so many, probably yours included, don’t have them. However Michelle Obama’s Smart Snacks in School standards have caused numerous states to ban bake sales starting this year, affecting many schools that <em>do</em> have them including mine.</p>
<p>This is usually about food handling, food poisoning, food allergies. You may be able to get around it by having a food handlers permit. It so predates any Obamas.</p>
<p>My school has not banned bake sales. There is, however, a strict policy. All food must be home-made and sold under the “supervision” or “direction” of a club’s teacher. The bake sales must also occur outside the cafeteria so they don’t end up competing with the school.</p>
<p>Our school banned bake sales as well in response to new national nutritious laws. Annoying.</p>
<p>People get what they vote for (you can guess where I lean 
). </p>
<p>@Alfonsia People in the thread are referring to the new federal guidelines set by Michelle Obama which have caused many schools to ban bake sales beginning this year as a result</p>
<p>Michelle Obama did not propose the ban on bake sales, it was an idea that came about which she supported. The regulations that were apart of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act did not ban baked goods, new regulations are doing that. Also, I read somewhere that states are allowed to take exemptions, meaning that for X amount of days they can allow bake sales to go on. I know that NYS cuts off some funding if schools refuse to accept the ban, which I find really obnoxious because my school (along with most others in NY) doesn’t receive much funding. We used to get marginal funding from the NYS lottery but that was cut off a few years back…government sucks :P</p>
<p>States are allowed to choose, but many of them are just banning them because of the new regulations. There are stricter standards on what can be sold. My state banned it and its pretty impactful on my school because we do a TON of fundraising</p>