Cookies for Santa?

TheFitHooker

Do you do cookies for "Santa" in your house? If you have kids of course? We usually do, but was wondering what are other Healthy ideas? Husband and I were discussing this. Usually we split the plate of cookies. I wonder if the kids would buy that Santa put a memo out to all parents that he does not want cookies, but rather rice cakes? BAHAHAHAHA!!!

hope25

What about making the flourless sugar less oatmeal cookies some one posted on here. If you replace the oil with applesauce they are only 60 calories a piece

TheFitHooker

hmmm sounds yummy *goes off to search*

Lleldiranne

We always put cookies out for Santa. Take a bit or two at most, drink a bit of the milk, and remind the kids that lots of people left cookies and he's probably getting full. Never had a problem here.

Contrarian

Put the cookies out, break off a few crumbs onto the plate, and put them back in the package. Or, just eat them.

capaxinfiniti

I found out after years of Santa taking my cookies that all my mom did was take the cookies that night when "Santa" was supposed to come and just put them back in the cookie jar :laugh:

More cookies for me!!!

taso42

this is why santa is so fat

UsedToBeHusky

Fortunately, my kids are old enough to know... but they still expect all the usual treats...

Anyway, if my kids decide that they want cookies then I will just keep some calories open for the indulgence. Otherwise, that recipe earlier sounded fabulous and I meant to bump it and forgot. :::goes off to search now::: :laugh:

TheFitHooker

this is why santa is so fat

ROFL! Right? I told my husband we could just tell the kids that Santa needs to go on a diet :P

65PONY

Feed them to the dog or put them back in the cookie jar :-)

MrsCon40

Please don't sabotage Santa!

But seriously - my daughter is beyond that age... Before we'd totally eat them!

lor007

If I was a little kid, I would be pretty disappointed if my mom didn't bake cookies with me on Christmas eve for Santa. The holiday only comes one time a year, just enjoy the time with your kids.

yummy♥

Santa works really hard. I think he deserves a proper cookie or three.

TDGee

We've always left Santa a cold beer. This year it'll likely be a light beer. The jolly old elf works too hard for just cookies,

capaxinfiniti

If I was a little kid, I would be pretty disappointed if my mom didn't bake cookies with me on Christmas eve for Santa. The holiday only comes one time a year, just enjoy the time with your kids.

Yeah! It won't hurt if you allow yourself to have a cookie! Put out two of them and you and your husband can just have one each! You've been doing good all this year, have a little holiday treat!

MrsCon40

Santa works really hard. I think he deserves a proper cookie or three.

and for God's sake not the flourless sugar less oatmeal cookies made with apple sauce. a proper cookie or three.

rebysue

We always leave out a plate but rather than eat them, we toss them and then take the garbage out to the outside garbage!

RebelBrew

this is why santa is so fat

he is a lush to from egg nog

TheFitHooker

Sweet's are making me sick though. I will bake them and my husband can have at them, but today was my daughters birthday party, and the smell of the icing on the cake made me sick at my stomach, my husband had to bathe her because I thought I was going to get sick because of the strong sweet smell lol. It's a good thing and I'm not complaining, but I had no desire to even nibble it. I think we'll just make them and either put them back in the cookie jar or let husband eat them. He does look forward to baking cookies and I don't want to take that away from him. I don't have to eat them.

lor007

Sweet's are making me sick though. I will bake them and my husband can have at them, but today was my daughters birthday party, and the smell of the icing on the cake made me sick at my stomach, my husband had to bathe her because I thought I was going to get sick because of the strong sweet smell lol. It's a good thing and I'm not complaining, but I had no desire to even nibble it. I think we'll just make them and either put them back in the cookie jar or let husband eat them. He does look forward to baking cookies and I don't want to take that away from him. I don't have to eat them.

Awesome! Problem solved.

summertime_girl

Eh, one day of sweets and treats won't derail an otherwise healthy lifestyle.

dls06

Do a " Thank you" note to santa and some carrot sticks for the raindeer.

dad106

Tell the kids that you need to put out carrots and celery for the reindeer.. along with cookies for santa.

You eat the veggies and husband eats the cookies... and maybe you try one cookie

TigersFanIndy34

I don't bake and never have so we've never done cookies. In fact my oven door doesn't even open anymore, it's all busted - and it's been a non-issue enough for 2years that I haven't saved up to buy a new oven LOL.

We make reindeer food - it's nonedible but the kids LOVE it. We take confetti (either bought or sometimes we just use a hole puncher and construction paper and make our own). and some glitter and shake it all in - sometimes throw in some old bird seed if we have some and put it in a cute little Christmas bag for the reindeer to "eat". Sometimes hubby will even sprinkle a teeny bit on our porch and we are like "oh look, they must have ate it so fast they spilled a little!" then he goes out to clean it up We added the glitter because of the snow - it shines a bit for him to see to clean it up LOL.

My daughter's preschool teacher liked our idea so much that she used it for the class one year (many years ago since my daughter is a middle schooler now).

sc1572

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Classalete

My Santa is a type 1 diabetic. I leave him beef jerky and the key to the treadmill.

warmachinejt

lol...
you should leave him a glass of protein shake since he has to be hauling heavy **** through a the whole night

TheAnie

We've always left Santa a cold beer. This year it'll likely be a light beer. The jolly old elf works too hard for just cookies,

Okay, THIS cracked me up.

I'd do the cookies to be honest with you. Eat one, it's Christmas. Put the rest back in the jar. Or make a show of having the kids count the cookies the night before so they can see how many Santa ate that night. It would also give you an excuse to put out less the following year "Oh, Santa only ate one cookie last year. Remember? So let's not put out too many!"

Wasn't it The Santa Clause where Tim Allen informed a little girl that Santa was on a diet and the following year she left him carrots and soy milk? haha. So there's always that. Don't parents pretend to have a direct line to Santa anyways?

EuroDriver12

i ate all the cookies..................................................

Newf77

I was a strange little kid and hated the thought of an obese pedophile so the mystic of the season was wasted on me, however siblings left milk for the owner of the elf sweat shop and carrot sticks for his for legged indentured servants.

tiabirdie56

After a long night of waiting for kids to fall asleep, tired and bedraggled, setting out gifts and assembling toys, at 3am, the milk and cookies become the 1st best part of being Santa. If you don't want to eat the cookies, that's fine. Sprinkle some crumbs on the plate and leave a milk coated glass beside it with a thank you note from Santa.