Have your children had some funny MOOsings about the origin of their food? Share with Cadbury for chance to win a £300 voucher NOW CLOSED

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Teaching your children about where their food comes from, and how it makes it from there to the table every day can be a great way to make dinner time more exciting. But Cadbury want to hear about the times your DC have been left to figure things out for themselves, and perhaps drawn some … interesting conclusions.

Whether they’ve developed an elaborate story about where milk comes from, or the look of shock and awe when they realise that their porridge oats were once growing in a field has been priceless, the everyday facts we take for granted can come as quite a shock when you’re a little one. So, if your child has come up with an inventive story behind why bananas are wearing jackets, or decided that fish fingers must have at some point been part of fish hands, share their ideas on the thread below.

Everyone who shares one of their child’s moosings by commenting on this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one lucky MNer will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher

Thanks and good luck!

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Following a recent news story about children not knowing where food came from, I asked DD about a few basic foodstuffs.

All totally fine, until I asked where pasta came from. "Hmmmm.... I want to say goats and sheep.... am I right?"

My niece asked if we get bread from ducks.

Since learning jow honey is made, my 3 year old is convinced that flies make jam. He will not be persuaded otherwise.

My son thought spaghetti grew on trees and you harvest it, hanging down like a weeping willow.
He is also patiently waiting for our pineapple plants to fruit, I think he will be an adult before it does, if it does.

My DS thinks peas and sweetcorn are the same thing, and that they can be found growing in cold countries, like the freezer.

DD "The chickens we eat aren't the same as the chickens with feathers are they?".

DD was doing a quiz on her ipad the other day and one of the questions was, what is cheese made from? She asked me and I burst out laughing, then realised she is serious. She is 9. There were 4 options and she didn't know the answer was milk.

To be fair, I have never had the conversation with her, to explain that milk makes butter, cheese, yoghurt, ice cream, you just take these things for granted because you know them.

it's quite embarrassing though as I grew up on a dairy farm

From my son aged about 3. "not chicken the animal! Chicken the lunch"

And same son aged 6. "We call this meat 'beef' but I know what it really is"...leans in conspiratorially...."it's a beaver!" Triumphant look.

For years my daughter thought potatoes grew on trees, and were a sort of savoury equivalent of cooking apples.

When ds was young, me and his dad both worked long hours. So any chips we had were oven chips.
When ds was 11, he was moaning about not liking potatoes.
But you like mash, ds.
Yeah, mash is ok. With gravy.
And jacket spuds.
Yes; with butter and cheese or tuna.
And toasties?
Oh yes. Especially nanny's toasties.
And chips.
Chips are not made from potato!
No? How are they made then?
I'm not sure, but you put the chip mix on the baking tray and cook it in the oven.
Chip mix??

Roasties, not toasties!

My daughter thinks all meat is chicken so she eats chicken fish fingers, chicken beef burgers and chicken sausages etc.

when dd was abour 4 we went to a farm park and an old lady said to him look at the lovely lambs, he replied, they're nicer with mint sauce

We had a lovely steak and kidney pie at grandma's one day and afterwards dd was confused how she could have kidney beans in her veggie chilli as 'it had kidneys in'.

At a farm recently;
DD: mummy, so chicks hatch from eggs? (Look of horror on face)
Me: yes babe
DD: so when we eat eggs, we eat dead baby chickens?!?

Ummmmm

My DS asked if strawberries and blueberries are grown in liberries (librarys) 😂

And then the bees wee the honey into the hive..
As I was reliably informed by my 4 year old when discussing how bees make honey...

We went to a carvery at the weekend - so there were the usual options, turkey, beef or you could have gammon & pork. My DS refused to eat the pork as he didn't want to eat a dead pig (they're too cute apparently) - but merrily ordered himself the gammon and wolfed it down...

We had a little chat with him after the event.. :-)

Our 5 year old is horrified if he thinks anything has to die to provide dinner .

He solved his quandary by letting us all know that 'pigs poo bacon' !!

Apparently no pigs are harmed in the provision of his favourite meat !!

Having grown up on a farm I had no problems with understanding where food comes from and dd has been the same.

Once in the supermarket when dd was maybe 18 months old we passed a large cardboard chicken next to a display of eggs. Dd declared "oh kicken, yum yum, I eat!"

I come from a self sufficient background (believe me, no funny misunderstandings possible when your dad butchers all the meat, and my mum could do 1001 things with a bucket of raw milk - not always successfully though) so ds knows where food comes from perfectly well.

But he does have worries about depriving chickens of their right to reproduce, and so will not eat eggs away from home without a discussion which will go along the lines of 'are your eggs fertile? Ummmm, what do you mean? Are there cockrels with the hens, could they have fertilised the hens eggs so they could grow chicks?'
People are usually very confused

My 4 year old thought fish fingers were made with chicken! Oops! Now he knows they are made with FISH!

Ds age 4, pointing at a pigs nipples - "look at those tubes, that's where sausages come from".

What vegangelist said.

The dairy industry is pretty horrible, can't find much humour there I'm afraid.