me_irl

It depends what you are baking and what your health goals are. Sweet things are pretty bad, though probably better than chocolate. That's what makes me feel kind of guilty, because I like baking sweet things. It's also important to note I am not really overweight and what excess I have is lack of exercise from being unemployed and living at home in a tiny village not dietary reasons. My parents who eat the baking are overweight though especially my dad.

I think freshly baked pie and pasties are a lot better than say junk food, though they can be high in calories. A vegetable pie would be a lot better than say chicken pie with a creamy sauce. Something like a Cornish pasty wouldn't be too bad either I wouldn't think as it's largely vegetable and lean beef.

Baking bread at home can be potentially healthier especially if you live in the US where they add lots of sugar to bread and it's heavily processed. Some homemade whole grain should be better than this. The only issue here is people can overeat fresh bread more than they would supermarket bread simply because it tastes better. I know some of my extended family had this problem and stopped baking bread because of it.