Easy Reindeer Food Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is magic reindeer food made of? ›

"Oats are a Reindeer's favorite food, cinnamon is their favorite smell and sugar crystals reflect the light from Rudolph's nose so Santa can find your house.

The traditional food left out for reindeer on Christmas Eve is a mixture of oats, seeds, and other small, edible treats. This type of food provides the reindeer with the energy they need to pull Santa's sleigh all night long.

You should have a fairly solid slab. Use your cookie cutters to cut out your reindeer cookies (if you have any leftover bits, you could crumble them up and put them out for the garden birds to enjoy). Leave them to cool, ideally in the fridge overnight. Once set, they're ready to go outside for Rudolph!

In a medium bowl, mix together 1 cup uncooked rolled oats, 2-6 tablespoons red-colored sugar, and 2 to 6 tablespoons green-colored sugar until well incorporated. Transfer sugared oats to zip-topped plastic bags, adding more colored sugar for a festive effect.

Reinskav, shredded reindeer meat, is the main ingredient in traditional Norwegian finnbiff. The stew is very tasty, and is usually made with a little sweet brown goat cheese (if you can find it) and served with lingonberry jam and mashed potatoes.

Melt 85 grams of butter in a microwave-safe bowl. Pour 240 grams of Kellogg's Corn Flakes® in a separate, large bowl. Pour the melted butter on top of the Corn Flakes and stir to coat. Moving quickly, sprinkle 56 grams of red and green sugar sprinkles on top, once again stirring to coat the cereal with sprinkles.

A: Santa feeds them hay and reindeer feed, with the occasional graham cracker Christmas cookie as a treat. They also eat mosses, grass (when it's not covered with snow, that is!) and lichens.

Reindeer usually eat a mixture of grains — oats and barley, that kind of thing. We feed them veggies, too and, of course, they graze on wild grasses, berries, and sage. Reindeer are naturally very healthy eaters.”

Myth 2 – Reindeer eat carrots

But we aren't sure where this tradition stems from as they do not grow in sub-Arctic habitats, and reindeer physically can't eat carrots. Their lack of top teeth prevents them from chewing them down into a digestible size.

Reindeer Food gets sprinkled on the lawn Christmas Eve night to help guide Santa's hungry reindeer to our house & the glitter in the food lights up under the starry sky and acts as a beacon for them!

What to do with reindeer food on Christmas Eve? ›

Many packs of 'reindeer food' instruct kids to sprinkle the mixture in their gardens, so that reindeer will be able to eat it when they stop off at each house on Christmas Eve.

Glitter is essentially tiny bits of plastic. Mix that with animal food and sprinkle it outside, and you're essentially feeding all the reindeer, birds and other wildlife tiny bits of plastic with their dinner. It can make them really poorly.

Well, first of all, reindeer don't eat meat, so there is no point putting out a steak, a burger or sausages. Very importantly, carrots are burst- ing with vitamins and minerals, pro- viding reindeer with a nutrient boost before take-off.

“Reindeer has a rich, intense gamey, sweet and super complex flavor.” However, how the meat tastes is generally dependent upon how the animal is fed. Wild reindeer that graze on natural or managed pastures might have a more gamey flavor, while those that feed on grains will have a milder taste.

You could also desiccated coconut, nuts,seeds and mixed dried fruit. Christmas baking edible sugar sprinkles to give it that magical touch to it, as a replacement for glitter.

It's a traditional source of food in regions where reindeer herding is practiced, such as parts of Scandinavia, Russia, and North America. Reindeer meat can be used to make dishes like sausages, stews, steaks, and jerky. It's known for its lean and tender qualities and is often considered a delicacy in some cultures.

Melt 3/4 cup of butter in a microwave-safe bowl. Pour 1 cup of cereal in a separate bowl and pour the melted butter on top. Sprinkle 1/2 cup of red and green sprinkles on the cereal. Stir the cereal to coat it with the butter and sprinkles.