Reindeer food! 16 December 2009 at 12:53AM edited 22 December 2009 at 4:51PM in It's Gone, but was it any good? 46 replies 27.1K views

felinexxxx

I'd like to see any small mammal daring to eat oats of my door step with my big fat tomcat's lurking by the cat flap!
But yes, ours will be glitter free, as my daughter also panicked last year over :rudolf: health!

coxy07

We put asdas pink glitter cake sparkles in. Edible, glittery and about 45p a big tub!

LilacPixie

I dyed some sugar red and some sugar green to go in it.

GemR_2

Was just going to say what other posters have already mentioned.

If you have already made this with the cheap non-edible glitter either throw it away and remake with edible glitter or sugar with a few drops of food colouring in, or only sprinkle this on, for example, your front step, and sweep it up as soon as the children have gone to bed.

There have been quite a few reports of birds and small animals being killed by eating the glitter from reindeer food, and let's face it, the magical experience would be somewhat ruined by a dead robin and mouse on your front path Christmas day morning!!!!!!!!!;)

lumpy_bum

my youngest's nursery gave us some yesterday, it was oats with little edible cake decorations in, my son wanted to eat it himself though lmao

mookie

gemr wrote: »

Was just going to say what other posters have already mentioned.

If you have already made this with the cheap non-edible glitter either throw it away and remake with edible glitter or sugar with a few drops of food colouring in, or only sprinkle this on, for example, your front step, and sweep it up as soon as the children have gone to bed.

There have been quite a few reports of birds and small animals being killed by eating the glitter from reindeer food, and let's face it, the magical experience would be somewhat ruined by a dead robin and mouse on your front path Christmas day morning!!!!!!!!!;)

Thanks for the reply, I hadnt thought about the birds getting it as I was going to put it on our step and sweep it up, the recipes I found didn't mention edible glitter but I have some left from Halloween cakes so I think I will throw it away and make more that way our birds and squirrel can tuck in, saves me having to clean it up and will look more convincing in the morning. I'm a newbie to reindeer food, will edit my post now.:o

Bexster

Hi

Just a suggestion but you could do it with actual cheap bird food then the bird's get a nice xmas treat too?
x

Spacemonkey1986

Wow, the reindeer are lucky these days! We used to just leave a carrot when I was little

tia1803

do supermarkets sell edible glitter???

GemR_2

tia1803 wrote: »

do supermarkets sell edible glitter???

Proper 'edible glitter' is quite expensive from cake decorating suppliers but Asda sell a tub of pink sugar crystals, in the Home Baking Section, for approx. 65p. Also, it is really easy to mix normal sugar with a couple of drops of food colouring, red or green work best, to create a similar effect.

HTH