Journey
Sell food you make at home
Sell cakes, preserves or meals you make in your own kitchen. Register with your council before you start, run your kitchen to a food safety procedure, give customers allergen information, and check your mortgage, insurance and tax.
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Register with your council
Register your home as food premises at least 28 days before you start selling. It is free.
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Prepare your kitchen for inspection
A home kitchen does not need to be a commercial kitchen, but it must be clean, in good repair and run to a food safety procedure.
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Train yourself and anyone who helps
Everyone who handles the food needs supervision, instruction or training to match the work.
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Give allergen information for everything you sell
What you must give depends on whether you pack the food before or after the customer orders.
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Sell online and deliver
Customers who order remotely need allergen information before they buy and when the food arrives.
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Check your mortgage, planning and insurance
Council registration does not give you anyone else's permission.
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Tell HMRC about your sales
Register for Self Assessment once your takings go over the £1,000 trading allowance.
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