BREAKING NEWS – London, England – Instead of throwing out your Christmas tree, a journalist writing for The Guardian urged families to consider eating it.

“Instead of sending their pine, fir and spruce trees for recycling or replanting, growing numbers of eco-conscious households are trying to make the most of them by eating various parts before throwing them out,” Miranda Bryant wrote. “Fir trees can be used in ice-cream, to pickle vegetables and even to flavour gin. I think some people should some of the electric bulbs while their still plugged, in which I refer to as a ‘light lunch.’”