One of its suggestions was to eat the trees' conifers by making a flavoured butter from them. "That way your Christmas tree is not 100% waste," it said in a post on its website.

Belgium's food safety agency issued a warning to residents to not turn their Christmas trees into food after a city's recycling recommendations included using the needles in recipes.

Christmas tree needles can be used to make butter herbal infusions, syrups, or to flavour alcohol such as schnapps. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: UNSPLASH UPDATED Jan 09, 2025, 11:32 AM ...

A day after Belgium warned against eating Christmas trees, Swedish officials said that the needles can be safely used to make butter and other products -- as long as the trees are young and wild.

Belgium's food agency has warned people not to eat their Christmas trees after the city of Ghent suggested reusing pine needles in recipes as a way to reduce waste.

Belgium’s food agency pleads with public not to eat their Christmas trees. Agency issues warning after Ghent city council suggests recipes to ‘reuse’ conifers following holiday season ...

Go ahead and recycle your Christmas tree. But please, the Belgian authorities say, don’t try to eat it. The country’s federal food agency delivered that unusual warning this week after a ...

Belgium's food agency issued a public health warning as the festive season wrapped up Tuesday: don't eat your Christmas tree. ... blanched and dried – for use in making flavoured butter, for instance.

Q: We want to say thanks for the information on how to tree-cycle our Christmas tree. We decided to place it in the backyard and "decorate" it for the birds. It is amazing how quickly we've had ...

"Our tree (on the 50th Street beach) is a true celebration of nature," Lisa Walsh of the OCNJ Queens wrote in an email, "adorned with handmade ornaments crafted from bird seed, peanut butter ...

1. Take some butter in a bowl and whip for a few seconds. 2. Add powdered sugar & vanilla. 3. Whisk till pale & stiff peaks. 5. Take 75g of this batter & mix it with the cocoa powder & keep it aside.

Christmas pudding and brandy butter. ... In the UK, it's tradition to take down your tree and decorations 12 days after Christmas — known as Twelfth Night — to avoid bad luck in the new year.