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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DD(6) couldn't understand why beef wasn't black and white when she learned it came from cows!

DC 1 when he was 4 years old used to think fish fingers were caught at sea 😮

Ds3 saw cow being milked and said "cows milk comes from their lots of willies". Then had to try to explain where it really comes from, luckily he only said this in front of grandparents.

Also every now and again he will refuse to eat something incase he turns into it...

My daughter has been brought up a vegetarian and it was hard at first to explain why she wasn't to eat sweets such as Haribo where they add gelatine into their products. She now thinks it's weird that people are happy to eat sweets made of "feet and willies" and is happy to point this out to her friends at every opportunity.

When we went to the farm I had a million questions about chickens and eggs ending in him taking some eggs and putting them under his duvet hoping he would end up with baby chicks! I was wondering where all my eggs went!!

My little boy thinks chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

Can't remember anything with the DCs tbh but my DF had a lot to answer for when I was growing up. While driving through endless countryside on a family holiday I asked what the "yellow" fields (Maize) were and was told by my DF they were "Mustard". Perfectly logical I thought, as English mustard is exactly that colour, so I accepted it without question.
Except it wasn't until I was in my 30s that I realised I'd been hoodwinked. I'd spent decades looking at all the fields and wondering why on earth we needed so much mustard!!

DD2 aged 3 (firmly) SALAD is for CATERKILLERS
She has never wavered from this . She's now nearly 13.

My kid believed cows milk came from the cows peeing for years. He still drank it so I didn't think too much of it, until he began telling his friends!

My DD keeps insisting that jelly babies grow on trees.... That's a kind of tree I'd love to have growing in my garden!

My son believed fish fingers were exactly that! (He was tiny at the time though!)

My eldest is horrifed that deli meats are from pigs and that prawns were once living things. She had a phase where she couldn't eat eggs incase there was a chick inside and hasn't ever eated salad after an episode of peppa pig which linked snails eating lettuce so she is convinced that snail saliva and germs are on all salad. That last one is probably just an excuse not to eat salad.

Although we read lots of books about farms and animals, I have never kept it from my son where his food comes from, however on his trip to a petting farm recently when we saw and smelt the cows an calves he was pretty horrified about the fact his milk came from such a funny 'dudder' the next day he was still amazed that green grass goes in and white milk comes out.

When my eldest was 4 we went to a picnic and somebody had made 'butterfly' cakes. After taking a huge bite of one he loudly proclaimed that they were delicious. I told him that was because they were made with real butterflies! After eyeing the rest of the cake suspiciously for a few seconds he crammed it into his mouth and shouted 'yummy'!

My daughter couldn't work out why vegetables didn't make milk. She know animals produce milk, but for a while she would ask if loganberries make milkshake.. and why you can get smoothie.. she assumed smoothie was milk from fruit.

My littleuns used to think that flavoured milk comes from the different breeds of cows.

We had a bbq and I told my 3 yr old to ask her daddy if he wanted a kofta kebab, she obviously forgot what they were and asked him if he wanted a hamburger lollipop!

My son thought cauliflowers were brains and wouldn't touch them! He also thought broccoli were 'baby trees.'

My youngest , who is 3 , is convinced that milk comes from giraffes after we saw a baby giraffe at the zoo feeding from its Mum. I explained what it was doing and ever since shes told everyone that HER milk she has comes from giraffes !!

My DD1 (12) became vegan at age 11.
Because she found out where meat and dairy comes from. Exactly where and how it becomes what we buy in the supermarket.

I'd urge you to watch the YouTube video 'Dairy is Scary' it's only 5 minutes long, but will be an eye opener. It's not all cows in meadows I can tell you

my son thinks eggs grow under the soil like potatos

DS3 was quite upset that lamb actually came from the lovely cute lambs springing around all over the field. He thought it was a different lamb.

My 2 sons love their food and their is nothing they will not try, I took them to my local Morrison's a couple of weeks ago, I will never forget walking past the fish counter which had a salmon for sale. My little boy started talking in a 'scottish' accent to the fish, saying it was a good boy and have a nice swim when we eventually left the counter. I do not completely know what was going through his little mind as to why the fish was there (shopping perhaps :) ) , but was happy in the thought that it would be swimming home at the end of the day.

Ds1 (3yr) at dinner one evening asked if he could save one slice of lasagne for his teacher. I asked him why? He said his teacher said she wanted to eat a hotdog for dinner and he didn't want any dog to be eaten.

WE have always tried to be really honest about food origins but one of my kids really struggled with the concept that a potato was made into a chip. In his head he couldn't believe that a chip could come from the ground. Even when he helped me chop, wash and bake the potato into chips he kept looking at me as if I had lost the plot and was somehow tricking him. He didn't believe me until his teacher at school told him!