How Much Should You Sell Chicken Salad For? (2026 Pricing Guide)

A friend brought your chicken salad to a baby shower, and now three people want to buy it by the pound. Another asked if you would bring tubs to the Saturday market. You need a number before you answer, and the first price that pops into your head is probably too low.

Most pricing advice stops at "charge three times your ingredient cost." For chicken salad that rule misses two things. The ingredients are cheap, so three times cost lands you barely above the grocery deli. And in most states chicken salad has to be made in a licensed kitchen you rent by the hour or the month. This guide builds the price from numbers checked the day it was written: what shops charge, what a pound costs you, what kitchen rent adds and what card fees take.

How Much Should You Sell Chicken Salad For?

Sell a one-pound tub of classic chicken salad for $14, a specialty flavor for $15, and a half-pound tub for $8. A pound here means about 11 ounces of cooked chicken, 3.5 ounces of mayonnaise, 1.5 ounces of celery and a little lemon juice, salt and pepper, packed in a 16-ounce deli tub. If your recipe uses more chicken or pricier add-ins, charge more. The price ladder below is where most part-time chicken salad vendors can start.

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The ladder is our recommendation. It is built from prices loaded September 25, 2026 at Twila Mae's Chicken Salad, Sherm's Catering, Walmart.com and a Houston Chicken Salad Chick's DoorDash listing, and from the cost build further down, which uses Walmart.com ingredient and container prices from the same day.

Three things back the $14 pound:

• The shops. Twila Mae's Chicken Salad, a farmers market business in southwest Florida, charged $15 for a 16-ounce tub on September 25, 2026. Sherm's Catering charged $13 a pound. A homemade pound made with the same care belongs in that range.
• Your supplies. By our estimate a pound costs $2.81 in the tub. Three times that is $8.43, which sits barely above the $7.56 a pound Walmart's deli charged for its 12-ounce tub.
• Your kitchen. A home cook selling chicken salad usually has to rent a licensed kitchen. On a 20-pound batch, five hours of rent adds $6.25 a pound. At $14 that small day pays you $9.41 an hour, and a 40-pound day at the same price pays about $22 an hour, which is close to a real wage.

Before you take a single order, read the permit section below. Chicken salad is poultry, and it has to stay cold, which puts it outside the cottage food rules in most states. Our guide to which foods need time and temperature control under cottage food laws explains why prepared foods with meat count as TCS foods and why a commissary kitchen is the usual workaround.

What Do Stores and Chicken Salad Shops Charge Right Now?

On September 25, 2026, chicken salad sold for $6.47 to $7.92 a pound at Walmart's deli and $13 to $15 a pound at a chicken salad shop in Florida and a meal caterer in Delaware. The gap between those two groups is the space a homemade vendor fills. Customers who want the cheapest tub buy it at the grocery store. Customers who want your recipe pay closer to the small shops.

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We loaded each seller's own page on September 25, 2026, except Chicken Salad Chick, whose menu site lists no prices, so we used its Houston store's DoorDash listing. Delivery apps can charge more than the counter. Tax, delivery and shipping are not included.

A few things stand out once the prices sit side by side:

• Grocery chicken salad is cheap, and it sets your floor. Walmart's 32-ounce tub works out to $6.47 a pound. If your price is close to that, customers compare you to the grocery store instead of to a small kitchen.
• Small shops land at $13 to $15 a pound. Sherm's Catering sells its chicken salad by the pound at $13 for one pound and $26 for two, describing it as "seasoned chicken, celery, & chefs secret ingredient." Twila Mae's sells 16-ounce tubs at $15.
• Twila Mae's charges the same for every flavor. The nine flavors in its online store, from Just Chicken Salad to Thai Peanut, were all $15.00 on September 25, 2026. One price is easy for customers to remember and easy for you to take at a busy table.
• The chain sells servings, not pounds. The Houston Chicken Salad Chick listing prices a Large Quick Chick at $16.89 for four servings and a Small at $10.39 for two. Customers who search "Chicken Salad Chick price per pound" will not find a pound price there.

Twila Mae's shows where a market chicken salad business can grow. It started at a Fort Myers farmers market in the spring of 2020, and it now ships 16-ounce chicken salad packets for $15 each plus shipping, packed cold for two-day delivery. Its prices show what a well-loved local chicken salad can charge after a few years of regulars.

What Does a Pound of Chicken Salad Cost You to Make?

A pound of classic chicken salad costs about $2.81 to make, including the tub, by our estimate at Walmart.com prices on September 25, 2026. The chicken is $2.04 of that. Mayonnaise, celery, lemon juice and seasoning add $0.62, and the 16-ounce tub adds $0.15.

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Prices come from Walmart.com search results loaded September 25, 2026; your store may differ. The recipe, the 75% cooked yield from raw breast and the salt and pepper cost are our estimates. Labels, gloves, ice and cooler costs are not included.

What the build tells you:

• Chicken is about three quarters of the food cost. At $2.04 of $2.66 in ingredients, the chicken price is the one number worth watching every week.
• Mayonnaise is cheap, so do not skimp. Moving from 3.5 to 4.5 ounces of mayonnaise adds about 10 cents a pound. A dry chicken salad loses more sales than that.
• The container is part of the product. A 15-cent round deli tub is the cheapest choice. A tamper-evident container or a printed label costs more, so count it in if you want one.
• Ingredient cost is not your price. $2.81 is what the food and tub cost. Kitchen rent, card fees, ice and your hours all come on top, and the sections below add them.

Should You Poach Chicken Breasts or Buy Rotisserie Chickens?

Poached chicken breast is the cheapest meat for chicken salad at about $2.97 per cooked pound, against $3.53 from store rotisserie chickens and $7.97 for chicken that comes already pulled. The rotisserie route saves you cooking time but costs more per pound once you pull off the skin and bones. Pre-pulled chicken saves the most time and more than doubles your chicken cost.

How the three store options compare for a vendor:

• Poached breast. The cheapest meat and the most even texture. It also takes the most time, because you cook, cool and shred it before you mix anything.
• Rotisserie chickens. The chilled 36-ounce chicken was $3.97 at Walmart, but by our estimate only about half of that weight is meat you can use. That makes the meat $3.53 a pound, and you still pick every bird by hand. Many cooks like the flavor of the dark meat, so taste both before you decide on price alone.
• Pre-pulled chicken. Marketside's pulled rotisserie chicken was $7.97 a pound. Using it raises a pound of chicken salad from $2.81 to about $6.24, which needs $16 or more, and even at $16 a 20-pound day pays you about $6 an hour. It only makes sense on a 40-pound day, which pays about $17 an hour at $16, or at $18 and up.

Buying farm chicken changes the whole price ladder. At 5 Acer Ranch's $6.99 a pound, the cooked meat runs about $9.32 a pound, which puts the chicken alone in a pound of salad near $6.41. If you use local pastured chicken, say so on your label and price it at $18 or more; the customers who care about the farm will pay for it. At $18, a 20-pound day pays you about $8 an hour, a little under the $9.41 classic pays at $14.

How Much More Can You Charge for Cranberry Pecan, Grape and Other Flavors?

Charge $1 more for flavors like cranberry pecan or grape, even though they cost you within 45 cents of classic to make. Grape costs 15 cents less per pound than classic, because cheap grapes replace some of the chicken. Cranberry pecan costs 45 cents more, because pecans cost about three times as much per ounce as the chicken they replace. Customers see the add-ins as a treat, so the extra dollar is all margin on grape and about 55 cents of margin on cranberry pecan.

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Add-in prices come from Walmart.com on September 25, 2026: Fisher Chef's Naturals chopped pecans at $13.47 for 24 ounces, Great Value sweetened dried cranberries at $5.96 for 24 ounces and red seedless grapes at $1.67 a pound, a sale price (about $1.87 regular). The recipes are our estimates.

A few rules for flavors that keep your price simple:

• Start with two or three flavors. Classic plus one fruit flavor and one spicy flavor covers most customers. Every new flavor is another tub that might not sell.
• Keep one price for the specialty flavors. Twila Mae's sells every flavor at $15. You can do the same at $15, with classic at $14 as the everyday choice.
• Price bacon and cheese flavors higher. Bacon, cheddar and fresh herbs cost more than fruit. Cost your recipe the same way as the table above before you put it at $15.
• Name the add-ins. "Cranberry pecan" tells the customer why it costs $1 more. "Special recipe" does not.

What Should a Half Pound, a Sandwich or a Snack Cup Cost?

Charge $8 for a half pound, $9 for a croissant sandwich and $5 for a 4-ounce snack cup with crackers. Smaller sizes cost you more per ounce in packaging and time, so they should cost the customer more per ounce too. A half pound at $8 is $16 a pound, and that is fine.

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Supply prices come from Walmart.com on September 25, 2026. The DoorDash prices come from that chain's Houston store listing the same day and may run above that store's counter prices.

How to think about the small sizes:

• The half pound is your door opener. It lets someone try you for $8 instead of $14. Put it next to the pound so the pound looks like the better deal.
• The sandwich sells lunch, not tubs. At $9 you are just under the chain's $9.89 sandwich. A croissant is the biggest cost in it at $1.25, so buy them fresh the morning of the sale.
• The snack cup sells to walkers. Four ounces of chicken salad costs you about 67 cents. Walmart's deli sells four 3-ounce cups for $5.97, or $1.49 a cup, so your $5 cup has to taste clearly homemade.

Can You Legally Sell Chicken Salad From Home?

In most states you cannot sell chicken salad made in your home kitchen, because it is a poultry dish that has to stay cold. Cottage food laws, the rules that let you sell food made at home, mostly cover foods that are safe at room temperature, like bread, cookies and jam. Chicken salad is what food safety rules call a time and temperature control for safety food, or TCS food, meaning it needs to be kept cold to stop bacteria from growing.

Texas shows how strict this is even in a state with a broad law. The Texas Department of State Health Services cottage food page, loaded September 25, 2026, says that after Senate Bill 541, "Allowable foods now include any foods, except for the following: meat, meat products, poultry, or poultry products." Chicken salad is a poultry product, so it stays off the list.

The usual legal routes for a part-time chicken salad vendor, plus the market permit you add on top, are:

• Rent a licensed kitchen. A commissary kitchen is a shared commercial kitchen you rent by the hour or month. Our guide to commissary kitchens versus home kitchens found hourly rates of $15 to $40, and your county health department issues the permit that goes with it.
• Use a home kitchen permit where one exists. California and Utah allow a microenterprise home kitchen operation, or MEHKO, a permit for selling meals from your own kitchen. In California each county has to opt in first. A MEHKO covers meals eaten the same day they are made and sold through home pickup or local delivery, up to 30 meals a day, and most MEHKO permits do not allow farmers market sales. It will not cover tubs of chicken salad made ahead for a Saturday market. The MEHKO rules and county fees explain who qualifies.
• Add a temporary event or market permit on top of the kitchen. A market permit covers selling at the event, not making the food, so your chicken salad still has to come from an approved kitchen. Many farmers markets ask cold food vendors for a health permit and a way to keep the food cold at the table. Ask the market manager what your county requires before you apply.

If you are starting in a home kitchen with baked goods and want to add chicken salad later, our guide on moving from cottage food to a commercial kitchen walks through the permits, the kitchen and the costs in order.

How Does Kitchen Rent Change Your Chicken Salad Price?

Kitchen rent often costs more per pound than every ingredient combined: at $25 an hour, five hours on a 20-pound batch adds $6.25 to each pound. The ingredients for that same pound cost $2.66. That is why chicken salad priced like a home product at $10 a pound leaves almost nothing even when every tub sells. By our estimate a 20-pound day at $10 clears about $7.05 before your time, or 78 cents an hour, and at $40 an hour rent the same day loses about $68.

Here is the math with our assumptions, which sit inside the $15 to $40 hourly range:

• 20 pounds in 5 hours. Rent is $125, or $6.25 a pound. Add the $2.81 cost of a pound in its tub and you are at $9.06 before card fees or your time.
• 40 pounds in 7 hours. Poaching and mixing scale well, so a batch twice as big takes only a little longer by our estimate. Rent is $175, or $4.38 a pound.
• Cheaper rent. At $15 an hour, the 20-pound batch pays $75 in rent, or $3.75 a pound. Call two or three kitchens before you set your price.

The lesson is to make more at once, not to cut your price. Chicken salad keeps only a few days, so the batch size is set by what you can sell, which is why pre-orders matter so much for this product.

What Does a Market Day Earn at $12, $14 and $16?

A 40-pound market day at $14 a pound earns about $244 after supplies, kitchen rent and card fees, or about $22 an hour for 11 hours of work. The same price on a 20-pound day earns about $85, or $9.41 an hour, because the rent is spread over fewer tubs.

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Our estimate. Supplies are $2.81 a pound in the tub at Walmart.com prices from September 25, 2026. Kitchen rent is $25 an hour for 5 hours (20 pounds) or 7 hours (40 pounds). Each pound is treated as its own card order at 2.9% + $0.30, and every tub sells. Selling time is 4 hours. Booth fees, ice, labels and driving are not included.

What the table says about your price:

• $12 does not work on a small day. $5.10 an hour is less than any job you could take instead. At $12 you need the 40-pound day to make it worth the kitchen.
• $14 is the fair middle. It pays about $22 an hour on a full day and still sits under Twila Mae's $15 tub.
• Every $2 adds about $39 on a 20-pound day and $78 on a 40-pound day. Customers who love your recipe rarely notice $2. Your hourly pay does.

For the wider way to set prices on everything at your table, not just chicken salad, see how to price food products for a farmers market.

How Long Does Chicken Salad Keep, and What Does Waste Cost You?

Plan on 3 to 4 days in the refrigerator, and never more than 2 hours out of the cold, which makes every unsold tub expensive. The FoodSafety.gov cold storage chart, loaded September 25, 2026, lists "Egg, chicken, ham, tuna, and macaroni salads" at 3 to 4 days in the refrigerator and notes that they do not freeze well. The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service says to keep cold food at or below 40°F and never leave it out more than 2 hours, or 1 hour above 90°F.

Here is what that means for your price:

• Unsold tubs cost you the rent too. If 4 of 20 tubs do not sell, you lose $56 in sales, and the day's profit at $14 drops from $84.73 to $31.55 by our estimate.
• Make it the day before, not the week before. Twila Mae's says its market salads are "made and packed the day before." That leaves your customer most of the 3 to 4 days at home.
• Do not copy another shop's shelf life. Twila Mae's says its salad lasts "about 10 days" from the day it is made. That is its own claim about its own process. Unless your health department or a food lab has approved a longer date for your recipe, use the 3 to 4 day guidance.
• Cold at the table is part of the cost. A cooler, ice and a thermometer to prove 40°F or below are not optional at a market, so count them when you set your price.

What Do Card Fees Take From a $14 Tub?

Card fees take about $0.51 to $0.76 from a $14 tub, depending on how your customer pays, and on some pre-order apps the customer pays an extra $1.25 on top, or you pay $1.96 a tub if you cover Hotplate's fee yourself (its 5% + $0.55 plus 2.9% + $0.30 processing). That is small next to the $2.81 the tub costs you, but on 50 tubs a month it is $25 to $38, and it decides whether your customer sees a surprise fee.

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We checked these on each company's pricing page on September 25, 2026: findhomegrown.com/signup, hotplate.com/pricing and Square's fee page for the Free plan. One tub per order is assumed. Fees on tips, taxes and delivery are left out.

Three things matter more than the cents:

• Who sees the fee. On Hotplate the customer pays 5% + $0.55 at checkout while you pay the 2.9% + $0.30 processing, so a $14 tub costs them $15.25. Hotplate lets you pay the 5% + $0.55 yourself instead, which keeps the price at $14 but raises your cost to $1.96 a tub.
• Getting paid before you rent the kitchen. Cash at the market has no fee, but you rent the kitchen and buy the chicken before you know how many tubs will sell. Paid pre-orders turn the batch size into a known number.
• Your monthly volume. At 50 tubs a month the gap between plain card processing options is about $12. At 20 tubs a month the $10 subscription is a bigger share, so weigh it against the tubs you stop throwing away.

How Do You Sell Every Tub Before It Spoils?

Take paid orders before you book the kitchen, then make only what was ordered plus a few tubs for walk-ups. Chicken salad has a 3 to 4 day window and a kitchen bill that arrives whether the tubs sell or not. Pre-orders turn both into known numbers instead of guesses.

That is the job a pre-order storefront does, and it is where Homegrown fits for a chicken salad vendor. Homegrown is $10 a month billed annually ($12.50 month to month), with no percentage fees beyond standard payment processing. You list each flavor and size with its weight written out, set a pickup location and time window at the market, and customers pay when they order. You book the kitchen knowing you need 36 pounds, not hoping for 50.

Here is how it compares to other ways to take chicken salad orders:

• Facebook posts and texts. Free to post, but "save me two cranberry pecan" in a comment is not a payment. You rent the kitchen on promises and chase payments afterward.
• Hotplate. No monthly subscription, but your customer pays 5% + $0.55 on top of your price at checkout unless you choose to pay it yourself, so a $14 tub reads as $15.25, and you still pay 2.9% + $0.30 processing.
• Square Online. The Free plan has no subscription, but online orders cost you 3.3% + 30¢ each, and you build and run the ordering page yourself.

What you get on Homegrown for a chicken salad business:

• Paid pre-orders so every pound is paid for before you buy the chicken.
• Pickup locations with time windows, so tubs leave the cooler on schedule instead of sitting out.
• Your own storefront link to post in the neighborhood group, on your market sign and in your text list.
• Card processing built in at 2.9% + $0.30, paid by you, with no fee added to your customer's total.

What Homegrown does not do: it does not get you a permit, find you a licensed kitchen or keep your food cold. It does not supply drivers, so if you deliver, you do the driving. Customers create a Homegrown account to place a first order, and there is no timed drop or countdown release. Your storefront is listed on the Homegrown marketplace, but plan on most orders coming from people you send to your own link.

If you already sell out at the market but still throw away tubs on slow weeks, set up a Homegrown storefront before your next kitchen shift and take the money with the order.

How Should You Price Chicken Salad for Parties and Catering?

Price party orders at about $13 a pound for 5 pounds or more, and $7 a sandwich on a platter of 12 or more. Bigger orders cost you less per pound in time and packaging, so a small volume price is fair, and Twila Mae's does the same: it charges $39 for three tubs, or $13 each, against $15 for one. Sherm's charges the same $13 a pound at either size, $13 for one pound or $26 for two. Deviled eggs follow the same pattern on party orders: Deviled Egg Co. in North Texas charged $24.99 for 12 pieces and $44.99 for 24 on September 26, 2026, and pricing a 48-half deviled egg order works the same way.

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Costs use Walmart.com prices from September 25, 2026 and our recipe. A 4-ounce serving is our estimate of one sandwich's worth. Trays, serving spoons and delivery are not included.

A few rules for big orders:

• Quote by the person, then round. Four ounces a person is a sandwich's worth. A shower for 20 needs 5 pounds, and $65 is easier to say than $3.25 a head.
• Charge for delivery separately. A drive across town with a cooler costs you an hour. Add a flat fee rather than hiding it in the pound price.
• Take the full payment ahead. A 5-pound order is $14.04 of supplies and a kitchen shift. A no-show on that order costs more than a slow market day.
• Ask for 48 hours of notice. It gives you time to book the kitchen and buy the chicken for that order alone.

How Do You Set and Update Your Price, Step by Step?

Set your price from your own receipts in six steps, then recheck it every month, because chicken prices move more than anything else in the tub. The numbers below are the ones from this guide; swap in yours.

• Cost one pound from your receipts. Weigh what goes into a batch and divide by the pounds it makes. Our classic pound came to $2.66 in ingredients.
• Add the tub and label. A 16-ounce deli tub adds $0.15, bringing our pound to $2.81. Add your label cost if you print one.
• Add kitchen rent per pound. Divide your rent for the shift by the pounds you make. Five hours at $25 over 20 pounds is $6.25 a pound.
• Add the card fee. At 2.9% + $0.30, a $14 tub costs you $0.71 to take by card.
• Check the shelf around you. Look at your grocery deli's price per pound and any local chicken salad shop. Land between them, closer to the shops. On September 25, 2026 that range was $6.47 to $15.
• Recheck every month. If the chicken you buy goes up $1 a pound raw, your pound of salad costs about 92 cents more. Move your price in $1 steps, not pennies.

The last step is the one vendors skip. Chicken breast was $2.23 a pound at Walmart on September 25, 2026. That was a reduced price: the same tray listed about $2.48 a pound before the discount, which would add about 23 cents to every pound of salad. The end of a sale or a switch to a better brand can change your cost fast, and chicken is three quarters of your food cost.

What Pricing Mistakes Do New Chicken Salad Vendors Make?

The costliest mistake is pricing from ingredients alone and landing near the $6 to $8 grocery deli price. At that price the kitchen rent eats the whole day. These are the other mistakes to avoid:

• Leaving out kitchen rent. At $6.25 a pound on a 20-pound day, rent is the biggest single cost in your tub.
• Making too much. With 3 to 4 days of fridge life, four unsold tubs out of 20 cut a $14 day's profit from $84.73 to $31.55.
• Charging the same per ounce for small sizes. An 8-ounce tub at $7 takes twice the packing per pound of salad as a $14 pound, for the same money. Charge $8.
• Too many flavors on day one. Six flavors means six half-empty coolers. Start with three and add one when a flavor sells out every week.
• Using pre-pulled chicken at a classic price. At $6.24 a pound in the tub, a $14 price leaves too little for rent and time.
• Skipping the permit. A health department shutdown at your first market costs more than any pricing mistake.

If you have your recipe, your kitchen and your price, the last piece is taking orders before you cook. You can open a Homegrown storefront for your chicken salad and share one link for every flavor and size.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much should I sell chicken salad for per pound?

Sell homemade chicken salad for about $14 a pound for classic and $15 for specialty flavors like cranberry pecan or grape. On September 25, 2026, Sherm's Catering charged $13 a pound and Twila Mae's Chicken Salad charged $15 for a 16-ounce tub, while Walmart's deli sold 32 ounces for $12.94. Pricing near the small shops covers kitchen rent and pays you for your time.

How much does it cost to make a pound of chicken salad?

By our estimate, a pound of classic chicken salad costs about $2.66 in ingredients and $2.81 in a 16-ounce deli tub at Walmart.com prices on September 25, 2026. Chicken breast is $2.04 of that, with mayonnaise, celery, lemon juice and seasoning making up the rest. If you rent a kitchen, add the rent per pound, which was $6.25 on a 20-pound batch at $25 an hour.

How much is a quart of chicken salad?

A quart deli container holds about 2 pounds of chicken salad by our estimate, so price it at about $26 to $28. Sherm's Catering sold 2 pounds for $26 on September 25, 2026, and Twila Mae's sold two 16-ounce tubs for $28. Walmart's deli sold a 32-ounce tub for $12.94, which shows the grocery floor you are pricing above.

How much is 4 oz of chicken salad?

Four ounces of homemade chicken salad costs you about 67 cents in ingredients, by our estimate. As a snack cup with crackers, $5 is a fair price. Walmart's deli sold four 3-ounce cups for $5.97 on September 25, 2026, and Chicken Salad Chick's Houston store listed a Scoop at $9.29 on DoorDash.

How much is Chicken Salad Chick per pound?

Chicken Salad Chick does not list prices on its menu website, and it sells chicken salad by the serving, not the pound. On September 25, 2026, its Houston store's DoorDash listing priced a Large Quick Chick, which it says serves 4, at $16.89 and a Small Quick Chick for 2 at $10.39. Delivery app prices can run higher than prices at the counter.

Can I sell chicken salad from my home kitchen?

In most states, no. Chicken salad is a poultry product that has to be kept cold, and most cottage food laws only cover foods that are safe at room temperature. Texas, for example, excludes "meat, meat products, poultry, or poultry products" from its cottage food law even after Senate Bill 541. A home cook selling chicken salad usually has to rent a licensed kitchen. Utah and the California counties that opted in offer a home kitchen permit, called a MEHKO, but it covers meals eaten the same day they are made and sold through home pickup or local delivery, not tubs made ahead, and most MEHKO permits do not allow farmers market sales, so check with your state health department first.

Related Reading

These five guides answer the questions that come right after "what should I charge," from permits to kitchens to pricing other cold and hot foods. Start with the first two if you have not booked a kitchen yet, because rent at $15 to $40 an hour shapes every price in this guide:

• Can You Sell TCS Foods Under Cottage Food Laws?: which foods need refrigeration under the rules, including prepared foods with meat.
• Commissary Kitchen vs Home Kitchen: what a licensed kitchen costs by the hour or the month, and when renting one pays off.
• When to Move From Your Home Kitchen to a Commercial Kitchen: the license, costs and signs it is time to add refrigerated foods.
• How Much Should You Sell Meal Prep For?: the same cost, rent and time math for weekly prepared meals.
• How Much Should You Sell BBQ Plates For?: pricing another meat dish that needs a permitted kitchen, from smoker yield to card fees.