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Reindeer food!

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  • felinexxxx
    felinexxxx Posts: 153 Forumite
    edited 16 December 2009 at 11:17AM
    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! :grin:
    But yes, ours will be glitter free, as my daughter also panicked last year over :rudolf: health!
  • coxy07
    coxy07 Posts: 327 Forumite
    We put asdas pink glitter cake sparkles in. Edible, glittery and about 45p a big tub!
  • LilacPixie
    LilacPixie Posts: 8,052 Forumite
    I dyed some sugar red and some sugar green to go in it.
    MF aim 10th December 2020 :j:eek:
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  • GemR_2
    GemR_2 Posts: 105 Forumite
    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
    lumpy_bum Posts: 3,876 Forumite
    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
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  • mookie
    mookie Posts: 2,655 Forumite
    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
    Bexster Posts: 543 Forumite
    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
  • Wow, the reindeer are lucky these days! We used to just leave a carrot when I was little :D
    If I could cheat, I'd skip to the end and decide if it's worth going through with
    :D
  • tia1803
    tia1803 Posts: 767 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    do supermarkets sell edible glitter???:confused:
    2013 wins...angry birds knex.
  • GemR_2
    GemR_2 Posts: 105 Forumite
    tia1803 wrote: »
    do supermarkets sell edible glitter???:confused:

    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
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