i want to make some nice treats to hang on my tree, any suggestions ?

I've threaded popcorn in the past you can put cranberries on too. Have made gingerbread hearts the AK recipe is good but now just tie on the Ikea hearts. Hawkins Bazaar sell tiny candy canes and Lidl sell these white chocolate circles covered in 100s & 1000s that I'm going to thread on (cheaper than the foil covered things). None of it will see Xmas Eve as the dc nibble it

Probably a very daft question but......if edibles aren't wrapped and you have a real tree is there any issue with sap or chemicals from the tree getting into the food?

Yes I know.....neurotic mother alert

string some pop corn? make stained glass biscuits?

stained glass biscuits??? pray tell

you can get a kit from tesco- basically its gingerbread biscuits with a hole cut out of the middle, you put boiled sweets in the whole- something clear like fruity ones, then cook for a bit to melt the sweet and it looks like stained glass

I used last year's advent calender (the plastic bit from the inside) and used it as a mould - pour in melted choc and hey presto you instantly have lots of chocolates for the tree. Wrap in foil, or cellophane and use those bauble hooks to hang them up.

Ikea have some little decorated cones (which you could probably make yourself) which you can fill with sweets, etc

i have another word for christmas tree yummies - micefood.

milamae - that is such a great idea. Only I've just scoffed the packet of them that I bought

I do Nigella gingerbread tree biscuit things iced with royal icing so it goes hard and doesn't drip off tree. Could do gingerbread men with each family member's name iced on??

Also I do candy canes (£1 for about 10 of them in Sainsbo's).

Not edible, but food related... I always do dried orange slices hung on tartan ribbons, and - just for a moment - believe I'm a proper wife & mother.

How do you dry orange slices? Do you just slice,put on a baking sheet and put in airing cupboard?

Also, I always get gold or red-coloured sweets, eg mini bags of maltesers, single finger Twix and hang them on the tree.

Sorry, just mis-read this as hanging yummy mummies on the tree

Dried orange slices... I slice the orange into thin (5mm??) slices and place them on a sheet of baking parchment on a baking tray. Then I put them in a really low oven (maybe 70 - 100 degrees centigrade depending on how fast your oven is) and then I watch them like a hawk! I think I give them half an hour or so, after which I pop back and check them every 5 - 10 minutes. Sometimes I turn them over if I think they're a bit too thick, but usually I don't need to.

Or... you can buy the slices ready dried in Hobbycraft but then you miss out on the lovely smell drifting through your house, and the all-round feelings of smugness.

Many thanks don't often get to feel that all round feeling of smugness so will have a go. What's the betting I'll be chipping off orange scented black tar off my baking sheet ?