I’m from the UK and my partner is from the States. Every year she has the kids leave milk and cookies out for Santa, which I find odd because we left out sherry and a mince pie in my house. At the same time, we live in Scandinavia and I’m sure the Christmas gnome (julenissen) is unhappy about the lack of porridge.
This is pretty interesting I didn’t know milk and cookies was a strictly American tradition.
We used to sometimes leave out “reindeer food”, which I think was just trail mix, candies, and sometimes sprinkles. We never made it at home though, it was something that would get made or handed out to kids at Christmas parties.
Please don’t feed refined sugar to the reindeer it’s really bad for them.
Same for humans, especially kids.