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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On babysitting for my God daughter I realised that she seemed to live on takeaways. I asked her what she wanted for tea and suggested fish and chips, she had obviously never tasted fish and asked if it was like chicken, I could only say yes, with more of a fishy taste !

DS (4) - which bit of the chicken are it's nuggets?

My son once asked if Jack Sparrow had grown the carrots and beans that he was eating for dinner.

Eh? (Now I know this sounds like a bad joke, but I promise you it's true)

"well, he is a Pirate of the carrots and beans...."

My youngest daughter loves beef but when my oldest told her that beef is from cows my youngest replied 'don't be silly milk is from cows'. I then had to explain that beef is from cows 🐮 xx

"Are jelly babies made from real babies" she asked at 3 years old.
Lol definitely not.

My little boy knew that bacon came from pigs, but what I didn't realise is that he thought the bacon was taken from the living pigs and then it grew back - a bit like Farmville/Hayday harvesting.

DS2: Mummy, you can't eat people.
Me: No of course you can't!
DS2: Only if you cook them first.
Me: I've birthed a tiny psychopath!

DS misunderstood nativity story and thought it was about the Baby Cheeses

She thought the whole world was black & white before colour was invented. She hadn't realised that only applied to TV lol. I 😂

Today I was asked 'what animal does a crumpet come from'.

Truth my Kids are dairy free now but was there Choice my Daughter see programe on how cows produce milk and she was really put her of .so One day I tricked her and added some milk her breakfast that thought she never notices as think was her special milk .she looked at me and said Yuk You gave me cow pee .after looking at her for while I said no its not it's Milk she thought milk was cowing pee and then cleaned up and drank by everyone .I never Laugh so much ..

When I was a journalist I had to go and ask a group of children a similar question. I explained what the news story was, said I would give them a list of foods and then if they could tell me what animal or plant that food comes from.

'Number 1 where does pork come from?'

Child 1- 'Afghanistan
Child 2 'America'
Me

my son got it into his head that he hated potatoes - he wouldn't be dissuaded so we stopped using the word. We'd have mash, roasties, chips, could get away with tatties - and he'd eat them all...but never, never potatoes...

Answer to where Eggs come from was first ducks, then farm. Yes, you can ear duck eggs but where else do they come from? Don't know. Then a big smile hens.

I can't remember any particular 'funny food' moments but my little boy visited Tesco as part of the farm to fork initiative. He really enjoyed learning about different food and where it had come from. I think all primary children should have the opportunity to learn how food is processed, Fair Trade etc from an early age so that they can make their own decisions.

'Why are eggs born at Easter different to normal eggs' asked my eldest...

We took DS to family farm one Easter, on returning to school, his form teacher asked him what he had done and learnt. The response was:

Well Mrs X - food does not come from the supermarket my uncle makes it all!
Why do you say that?
Well we rounded up the sheeps and took them to make lamb chops and they were really nice, I ate 4.
then we took the cows to be milked - did you know milk comes out of their boobies!
Then the old cows went to the slaughter house to make steak which we had on the barbie - it was a bit tough though!

Fish fingers are because the fish does not need his fingers so we can eat them!

All meat is chicken in our house - only way I can get DD no 3 to eat meat!

Sat in our farmhouse kitchen eating a leg of lamb Sunday roast....

"Mum, where does the farmer keep his three legged lambs?"

Yep! She though they cut one leg off under anaesthetic and the lambs went back to the field 😢

When our DD had her first christmas mince pie was rather disappointed as she had expected it to be made of beef mince. I think she felt duped and has not eaten them since.

Ds is son of a chef and grandson of a farmer. He knows his food origins to the point of embarrassment. Nursery trip to see the lambing at local farm = 'oooh, I LOVE lambs......with mint sauce', que lots of toddlers crying he still passes the pig farm in the car and shouts sausages, hey ho!

I try to teach my DDs where food comes from and pulled up some carrots from the garden. They were amazed that beneath the green top was food. Unfortunately, they now go around the garden pulling all my plants up in the search of buried food beneath the soil.

they still dont understand why at xmas people eat pies, with mincemeat in, covered in cream - they think it's the same stuff we eat with pasta

we keep chickens in the garden & my girl loves collecting the eggs...however it left her thinking that all animals must lay eggs. She came in & said my friends dog had laid a egg in the garden...I'm just greatful she didn't collect it 😂