Do you all put actual oranges in the toe of stockings?

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We've always put chocolate oranges in the stocking toes, but one of my DC is very lactose intolerant and doesn't want one this year.

I feel a bit mean just putting an orange in hers, but she doesn't like dark chocolate.

Has anyone got any good ideas for what I could put instead?

Satsuma. The children put them straight back in the fruit bowl.

Can you ever buy coal any more? It's all wood burners these days.

I thought only naughty children get coal.
I have a coal fire, the coal man winks at me when he delivers the coal. It's very retro.

We always put a real satsuma or the like in the bottom and they eat it straight away! Also a green apple as we usually buy red and they see it as an unusual treat. This year they are a bit older and will get a chocolate one too, like a pp said, further up.

I always got a satsuma and would eat with choc for breakfast . Do the same for my girls.

Lots of inspiration thanks everyone.

I've ordered some clear baubles and I'll make her some lactose free orange truffles to fill it.

We've never done either, I didn't even know it was a tradition till quite recently, we never had oranges in ours as children.

I got some soap shaped like an orange, for my little sister's stocking, one year.

I used to put fruit in stockings but it would me taking them out of the fruit bowl on Christmas Eve then me putting them straight back in the fruit bowl on Christmas Day. So instead we do chocolate orange and a shiny £1 coin

Always a satsuma in the toe of the stocking. Chocolate coins. A comic/magazine. A puzzle. Some other small bits like groovy socks or lynx.

Or fart putty or a clockwork toy or juggling balls or something daft.