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 younger my eldest daughter decided to chuck the Stilton / Blue cheeses into the bin saying they smelt bad, had a funny colour and gone mouldy! :)

Holding a conversation with my son, when he was about 3 years old, about the origins of food; pork from pigs, lamb from sheep etc etc Dessert later the same day was "Angel Delight" and with a very concerned look on his face he asked if the Angels had died to make the pink pudding.

haha some of these posts are great. chocolate milk was a confusing one!

Oh great another SHITTY survey from a company who is fast haemorrhaging cash (from the UK) with their vomit tasting so-called chocolate.

The solution is MNHQ either you start asking for more cash or you dissolve the contract asap, because kraft isn't going to win on the long run.

OI! kraft are you still smarting about this:- The companies argued over the Dairy Milk branding, and more recently Cadbury took Whittaker's to court over its Berry Forest name.

Cadbury argued it was too similar to its own Black Forest chocolate, but eventually LOST THE CASE.

My DC was afraid to eat an egg in case a baby chick came out

My great niece asked if her belly button was there to stop her food falling out of her tummy

My DS insists that sweetcorn kernels are unripe peas and he will not eat them. He also won't eat broccoli as they are baby trees that were never allowed to grow!

After watching Babe our eldest refused to eat pork. We had a big discussion about it over breakfast be he was adamant he wouldn't be eating any pork anymore, trying to keep a straight face during this chat was difficult because he was eating a bacon sandwich at the time.

My son thought milk was cows wee! Asked why we did not use ours!

My son thought milk came from a cow's bottom, he also thought bacon comes from a pigs bum. I have a video of him explaining this. It's so innocent and cute! He's 6 now and knows where they actually come from

My daughter used to think you could grow bacon, she didn't realise it came from a pig!

I had to make my sons chilli con carne without kidney beans because he doesn't like kidney!

My son thought eggs grew like veg because they are found all around the ground where the chickens have left them...and all covered in mud (or muck!)

Has to be explaining where eggs come from ... chickens poo eggs

dd quite happily munching sausages....her sister told her they were peppa pig...she replied 'yum yum peppa tastes nice!!'

My youngest is a vegetarian and would never eat mince pies at Christmas. We asked her why and it transpired she though it had minced beef in it rather than a fruity mix with vegetarian suet.

Hot dogs - I've never touched one since my DD said 'why are we eating boy dogs bits'

They know where milk comes from - Tesco!

When my eldest son was younger he asked what ice cream was made from, so we said from the cream of the milk which comes from cows. He then told us that ice cream came from cows that had been playing in the snow!

My daughter knew that milk came from cows but hadn't quite understood how and asked me 'Do cows wee milk'? lol
When eventually I went on to have more children, she was fasinated that I too could produce milk!

My little boy: mummy, dad says eggs come from chickens bums. does that mean what comes out of cats bums you can eat

I couldn't stop laughing, but obviously put him right straight away!

We had duck in pancakes from the chinese. My daughter asked if the duck in the pancakes was real duck. My son who is 4 said there not real ducks because there not yellow like the ones in the bath.

My grandson told me he might turn into an apple because he thought he may have eaten the apple pips!

We were talking about how meat is farmed and how it is slaughtered . DS1 wanted to know if chickens were "killed with machine guns?" DS2 disagreed, claiming that they were "usually kicked to death". They're lovely boys really... blush