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!

MNHQ

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When DS was 3 he constantly mixed up rice with porridge and asked for some very odd things to eat!

Sings... Peppa pig is made of Pork...to the theme tune!

my son thought bananas grew from the ground

We once had a funny talk about food. with my DD age 2.

Rabbit poo were currants.
Hen poo were eggs.
Cow poo was a cheese string. Wrong colours.
Windmill poo was a loaf of bread.
Fish poo was fish fingers..

You try telling a 2 year old they have it wrong..

DS was 3 when he asked me if houmous came from hummingbirds!

The moment at the dinner table after over year of eating it that my 5yr old realised that lamb was actually made out of LAMB !! Hasnt touched it since

Daughter got very upset after watching Bambi that people actually eat them...then it went to lambs (daughter LOVES lamb) but didn't realise lamb you eat is like a little lamb you see in a field bouncing around! Shame!

My son was invited to a nursery leaving do (aged 4) that was set at a Bee farm. The owner was giving a demo on the bee hive and asked the children what foods bee's contributed to making via pollenation. My DS piped up with his then current food - Fishfingers! I laughed at this and got a stern telling off from the owner as she broke it down and said that the bees helped to grow the grain that the fish fingers were coated in - that was me told!

When my DTs were smaller one said that there were singing chickens, egg chickens and curry chickens. Logic there somewhere.

My DD knows chickens lay eggs, eggs hatch and become baby chicks
At dinner one eve, youngest announced "I don't think
I've ever seen cows egg in the shop or baby cows hatching"

Cue lots of giggles and eye rolling from older sibling and me explaining that not all farm animals start life as an egg!

My DD helps me cook quite a bit and one day we were making Spaghetti Bolognese. When it came to chopping up the onion I said she could do it herself and she became a bit confused when she cut into it saying 'there's no garlic in this one mummy'. So it turned out she thought a garlic clove always grew in the middle of the onion!

Dd (4) wanted to plant the seeds off her naan bread to 'grow a naan tree'.
Her siblings took the piss for days but I think it's cute.

My DD used to think that chickens kind of burped up an egg rather than laying it!

My daughter continues to ask why fish fingers are called fish fingers when they are made of chicken

My son won't eat prawns ... but scampi is fine

When my DS was around 6 he had us in stitches asking how almonds were milked.. like cows were milked for cows milk where was an Almonds teat....
Had to actually google the answer for him.

My kids thought goat wool was how cheese was made

Probably been said but the confusion around fish fingers was a source of great amusement in our house.

My son and I started out own vegetable patch a few years ago. We planted carrots, peas, potatoes ... then he looks at me with grave concern on his face and asks: "Mum... how will we wash the dirt off the fluffy (mashed) potatoes"

I told my children that all meat was chicken, because that was the only meat they liked.

My son was convinced, after a visit to the farm, that his aunties baby had hatched !

At age three AJ decided he didn't want to eat anything with a face, except those jammy smiley biscuits. He's 25 now and has stuck to his principles

At first when I explained that pigs make sausages and chicken comes from chickens etc. my little boy just said 'No' and was in denial. Then when he had got more used to the idea we passed a field of horses and he said 'I love eating horses. Horses are delicious!' (He has not yet tried horse!)

My son was convinced that Brussel sprouts were littlecabbages for elves.