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

[AngelieMumsnet]

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

I was in the school garden with a 4 year old pupil recently and asked him what he thought we should grow in our planters. 'Sweets!' Was his first idea, followed by 'Cheese!'. He did eventually suggest lemons which is a plant at least. Where our food comes from was quickly woven into the next week's planning!

my daughter was going fishing for the first time with her Dad and told us all she was going to catch a smoked salmon. hahahah if only!

DD1 thought that white milk came from the black and white cows and chocolate milk was from brown cows when she was little

May have posted this on MN before, and not my DC contribution but my sister's when about 3 or 4yrs:

What's this meat called?

Beef.

Where does beef come from?

Cows.

[Scathingly] Don't be silly. Cows don't lay beef, they lay milk.

Dds always used to call broccoli "little trees" so even now my youngest is convinced it grows in a big forest. Seaweed from the Chinese takeaway is definitely the real thing off the beach according to my eldest (even I'm still not 100% sure it isn't?!!

One of our girls 9yr will not drink any milk, but she loves chocolate nesquick with milk ofc. When asked about it, she told us that nesquick with milk is a liquid chocolate so there is no longer any milk in it...
Oh hey... at least she drinks it :-)

DS1, aged 2 1/2, thinks it's highly amusing to tell people that milk comes from cows' boobies.

DD2 used to think that Ham, pork, beef, chicken (yes, chicken) lamb and so on all came from different parts of a cow.

She also used to think that baby milk was made with milk donated by people (mums, obviously).

my little boy(6 years) was looking at vegetables in tesco the other day! He picked up a smaller then the others carrot and said "awwww mammy- this ones only just been born!!!" lol He does make me laugh!!

DD1's favourite piece in a meat curry is the tube-like bone with the soft stuff inside (even I dont know what it's called!) But she calls it a 'hoop'.
Going through her special book with her nursery teacher and she'd reported a conversation she'd had with DD.

What did you have for lunch today?
Hoop.
Hoops? Spaghetti hoops?
No. Hoops.
Never realised how strange her chosen word 'hoop' was until that day but the words stuck and we all use it too

Firm believer of letting young people know from an earlier age knowing what food is, trying it and know hoe it isroduce, he is too young to say anything about food thought

DS is a right fuss pot and won't try the thing I know he'd like (jam or ketchup for example).
Recently, I managed to get him to try some sticky toffee pudding.
"Even the slime is nice Mummy!"

Slime? ?? I ask you!

My little man won't eat mushrooms because he seen them in a field and said that cows poo on them

We grow our own vegetables so our little one has always had a good understanding of where food comes from. She has a very different attitude than other children in that she will always eat anything we have grown, but is often reluctant to eat supermarket bought vegetables. When it comes to meat and fish she's pretty clued up and a lot less squeamish than me. She loves hanging about the fish counter commenting on the various fish and pointing out the ugliest ones. I'm very conscious about knowing the source I've meat I buy, my little one says she couldn't care less so long as it tastes good.

As vegetarians who are keen to raise our kids to make their own decisions we have chosen to not automatically give them meat, fish, gelatine etc, but to explain what it is and give them the choice of eating it or not. We thought they had comprehended it all very well, until youngest son thought that as cows are vegetarian this means they are suitable for vegetarians to eat. Doh!

I think it has to be the time when my daughter asked if hot dogs came from dogs lol, as she didn't want to eat dogs cause they were too cute :)

We have an allotment and my Ds was gutted when he discovered we couldn't grow roast potatoes.

my son was horrified when we told him lamb came from baby lambs. He insisted we were wrong and that it really comes from monsters pretending to be lambs?! I think he feels justified in eating them that way!

Isla is one and a half we took her fruit picking in the summer she loved collecting the strawberry's raspberrys and cherry's she does love her fruit :) but became very distressed and cross when we wouldn't take her to pick chocolate from the chocolate bush!! she just couldn't understand it! was very amusing bless her heart she then thought all food was picked from bushes :)

My neice thought that bacon came from milking pigs trotters!

Once my 5 year old asked how plums were made, and suggested it was made of jelly!

my son says if you eat burgers it makes you run slow, but runner beans make you faster - so cute!

If we are eating pees and one rolls off the fork and onto the floor, DD will loudly say "You've just peed on the floor".
Very embarrassing if we are eating out and she points at the culprit too

This is not going to be very helpful for the research but last year I'd taken my dc's to church for the harvest festival service. The vicar is really good with children and makes it all a bit more fun. Anyway, he fake received a call on his mobile from his mum who was asking him to get carrots for the roast dinner and he asked the children (all sat at the front) where do carrots come from? The answer : "tesco " haha

My children think all food comes from Tesco's, you can just phone them and they will make you whatever you want.