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Tell Tesco about the funny things your DCs say about where their food comes from and you could win a £200 voucher NOW CLOSED

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AngelieMumsnet · 20/10/2014 14:51

Tesco have asked us to find out what the most amusing things Mumsnetters' DCs have said about their food.

Here’s what Tesco say, “Studies show that almost a third of primary school pupils believe that cheese comes from plants. Our Farm to Fork initiative is trying to help children to understand where their food comes from. Farm to Fork Trail Guides are dispelling all sorts of food myths for the children visiting our stores, but we’d love to hear what your DCs say at home”

So, what crackers have your kids come up with around the table? Perhaps they have their own creative theories on where their food comes from? Or do they have some particularly interesting names for their food?

Whatever it is, we’d love to hear it!

Everyone who adds their thoughts to the thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £200 Tesco voucher.

Please note that any comments posted on this thread may be used by Tesco in further marketing material (anonymously, of course).

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

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sharond101 · 20/10/2014 21:15

My DS is 2 and asked me the other day if sausages come from Mummy's tummy just like he did when he was a baby? He also reckons every fruit and vegetable is "Not for him" sadly!

AGnu · 20/10/2014 21:18

I was discussing milk with DS1 (3yo) tonight. He totally got the concept. He'd been looking at a picture of a cow & asked what the udders were. I launched into a long spiel about seeing his friends' mummies breastfeeding & how that's how their babies get their milk & explained that cows give their babies milk through their udders rather than having breasts & that sometimes farmers will squeeze the udders to get milk that they can put in bottles for us to buy in the shop.... Finally, I took a breath. DS1 looked at me, nodded & said, "When I grow up to be a cow, I'm going to have a cow's bottom."

Hmm
Iggly · 20/10/2014 21:40

Ds knows where his food comes from. He regularly tells me that he doesn't like eating animals and gets upset about eating, say pigs. But when we told him sausages came from pigs, he shrugged. Sausages are his favourite.
I've had to lie and tell him animals have a happy life and once it is over, we eat them. Otherwise he'd only eat cheese and bread. As he's only 5, I'll spare him the full truth.

sarahbanshee · 20/10/2014 22:29

I was very proud when my nearly 3yo told me the other week that honey comes from bees, milk comes from cows...and carrots come from rabbits

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 20/10/2014 23:44

When he was very little, we went through a phase of getting ds1 to say a little prayer at bedtime. One night his prayer concluded, "Dear Jesus, thank you for Tesco. Amen"

He now claims not to like vegetables and fruit - 'that is the food MY food eats!' - but as he has a fridge full of assorted greenery, and has lost weight this term, I think his statement might be a bit of a fib.

GoldfishSpy · 21/10/2014 04:10

DS (then aged 4) and I had a conversation over some sausages.

"Mummy, do only naughty pigs get made into sausages?"
"No, DS, any pig can be made into sausages."
"Well I don't really like pigs anyway"

And also, over a pan of bolognese
"Mummy, what animal is mince made from?"
"From cows"
DS, starting to cry "But cows are kind, Mummy"

(I am veggie, we are letting DS make his own mind up, but I think we might have another veggie in the family soon!)

Heleng1982 · 21/10/2014 07:17

My ds was doing about where milk comes from at nursery and he was telling me all about it . So I asked him if he knew where beef came from he said "from shops" whilst looking at me like I had two heads Smile

wantabatplease · 21/10/2014 09:03

My DS has just realised fish is actually fish and chicken is actually chicken. He thought there was a food variety and an animal variety. When he finally cottoned on he was like "Oh...weird." And then shrugged his shoulders and carried on!

violetwellies · 21/10/2014 10:06

We have a farm, so I thought there would be no confusion about where meat came from, until I caught DS (3) eyeing my neighbour's cat.
"are we going to eat it?"

violetwellies · 21/10/2014 10:08

and goldfishspy, cows are REALLY not kind.

meep · 21/10/2014 10:09

"Does chocolate milk come from cows who've just had a birthday and eaten lots of chocolate cake? Maybe there are special fields with chocolate grass? Can we go there? I really really want to be a cow when I grow up....can I mummy, please?"....from dd2 who had just had her 5th birthday and was chocolate and cow/milk obsessed.

MakeTeaNotWar · 21/10/2014 10:39

DH is a butcher so the DCs have always known where their meat comes from and that Daddy makes sausages, burgers etc. however when DD was little she did think mud was chocolate and tried to stuff a handful of garden into her mouth!

EatDereksCorpse · 21/10/2014 10:48

My son turned into a cannibal after we saw a truck of cows and pigs heading to slaughter house. He asked where they were going so I explained.

He replied 'well I will eat humans and see how they like it!' Then proceeded to point at random people and say 'I will eat him and her and her and him'

Then decided he was never going to eat chicken nuggets or call them chicken nuggets. He ate them when we got to McDonald's but he refuses to call them chicken nuggets.

Only child I know who's first thought after hearing we are animals was to turn into a cannibal.

He's neearly 5

Iamnotanugget · 21/10/2014 12:15

inandofmyself we have Grandad/Daddy juice, beer and Grandma juice, wine. Mummy clearly abstains Grin just more discreet

Maiyakat · 21/10/2014 14:31

DD (2) was very excited to discover 'sawbees' (strawberries) growing in her grandparents garden, rather than in a tub in the supermarket!

EllaJayne123 · 21/10/2014 15:11

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BreconBeBuggered · 21/10/2014 15:14

DS decided to give up eating meat when he fully understood it came from slaughtered animals, so I fondly imagined that at least he was informed about his food. That was until he was baffled at the surprising news that chickens are not mammals.

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worldgonecrazy · 21/10/2014 15:44

DD knew that ham came from pigs, but used to have a gentle idea that they "gave" us the ham.

She calls venison "bambi", which I'm sure is off putting for many of her friends, and some adults.

InvasionOfTheBodyShatners · 21/10/2014 15:52

I asked DS, when he was a toddler, what he thought a chicken nugget was made of. He guessed dust. He must have read the Marjorie Dawes Guide to Weaning.

He still won't eat chicken nuggets Hmm

vickibee · 21/10/2014 16:13

My son plays minecraft and you have to rear and slaughter your food to survive. He makes chops, steaks and chicken. When he was younger he was told by an older boy that pigs lay sausages in the same way chickens lay eggs. . I soon corrected that one what a nonsense.

nousernamesleft · 21/10/2014 16:20

Having a discussion with the kids over where food comes from, we cleared up pork and bacon from pigs, steak and beef from cows, lamb from lambs etc, and I said, "this is an easy one, where do you think chicken comes from?" Dd (6 ish at the time) got really excited and shouted "giraffe!"

PrettyPictures92 · 21/10/2014 16:29

Dd (4) came with me to the shop for the first time in ages a few weeks ago (hadn't been able to get there while she was at school). Our local tesco has the fish counter that displays all the fresh fish, some still whole with heads and eyes.

Now DD absolutely loves fish, I normally buy it once or twice a week (without heads and eyes attached) and when she saw this she became extremely upset, refused to eat any fish so I, in exasperation, asked her where she thought chicken, sausages, bacon and pork came from.

"The freezer mummy" Grin (she meant the freezer at home).

Side note, I then explained to her exactly where her food came from and she refused to eat meat for three days in protest, then forgot all about it and now quite happily helps me prepare dinner again.

Blanketontheground · 21/10/2014 17:44

"Is milk cows wee wee mum?". My boy is 3.

Hoppinggreen · 21/10/2014 20:07

We volunteer at a local community farm and one of our " jobs" is to go once a month on a rota and check the cows are ok at the weekend.
We visited a couple of weeks ago with the DC ( 5 and 9) and met a dog walker there. My 5 year old explained why we were there and told him " there are 28 girl cows over there and a big boy bull over there and there were 3 boy cows in that field but there is only 1 now because 2 have been turned into burgers!!" ( this is true by the way)
One of the perks of the volunteering is that we have permission to raid the veggie patch there, which we do and then come home and cook with what we have picked. There was an event at the farm at the weekend and we visited. One of the volunteers who didn't know us welcomed us and asked DS if he had visited the farm before " yes, we come when nobody is here and steal vegetables"