Selling baby food products
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@Samantha thank you for the input ❤️i’m just so new to this but moneys tight and i really enjoy making my little man’s food and i love how happy it makes him so i’m excited to help new moms out, i’ll definitely have different prices for like meat purées but yeah i just don’t want to overcharge anyone by mistake haha
It might help to talk to your local moms to ask what they would pay for it. Just don’t sell yourself short, if you’re spending your precious extra time making a product you better be making money!
What food is that in the picture?
@Aggs a homemade uncrustable made like french toast (mashed strawberries in the middle) some cut up strawberries, and some strawberry banana blueberry egg and oat sticks
Restaurants typically take the food cost and multiply by 3 so one third is food cost, one third labour, and one third is profit (yes I know it’s not often that straightforward but that’s the goal) also in most places you need to have your space approved for commercial food preparation if you want to sell food. And people probably won’t feel comfortable buying prepared foods from a strangers home in general but having your kitchen inspected and having a food handlers certificate might help. Of course if you’re only planning to sell to people you already know they probably won’t mind
I don’t know how things work in the US but it would be hard to make it profitable out of your own home here. To prepare and sell food you would need to be insured, environmental health checked etc for a start.
Do you make a menu for baby? I would just offer that and allow interested people to pre-order base on what I am already making. I would see what the going rate is for similar items in store. Have a good understanding of the shelf life of what you're making. (All for marketing purposes) In addition to other things mentioned pricing out packaging materials as well to consider when figuring out your profit margin. Depending on how you want to advertise or how big you want this to go definitely know what it takes to be licensed and insured.
It depends on how much you’re buying the food for and what quantity you’re selling it in. You wanna make sure you’re seeing profit for the cost of product and for labor, also while keeping the price low enough that people will actually buy it. If you see that people are buying a lot then you can raise the price :)