When I was little we would decorate a real tree (smelled so nice!) almost entirely with food items. We'd string popcorn, string cranberries, hang hershey's kisses (in the green, red, and silver foil), hook candy canes over the branches, and hang cookies: we'd make gingerbread men and a bunch of different shapes of sugar cookies cut out in Christmas shapes and decorated with colored icing.
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