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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My now 17 year old son was about 7 when he was eating a yoghurt and asked how they were made I explained from milk which comes from cows and had to explain how they get the milk , after that he wouldn't eat yoghurt everytime I offered him one he'd say "yuck cows boob !" 😂😂

I had a chronic illness when our twins were at primary school and I'm not proud to admit it but we relied heavily on fast food as I was in and out of hospital and too ill to cook. It was embarrassing however to find that during class they had said that burgers come from McDonalds and Chickens from KFC 😩

My 5 year old twins definitely know where milk comes from, but my 2 year calls every drink including breast milk juice!

My 4 year old daughter seems to think that pasta shells are from the beach! She says that they are the shells that have gone soggy because the mermaids have left them there !! Haha I find it hilarious! Xx

Trying to convince my daughter when she was small that milk from cows does not mean that baby cows go hungry was my problem, she got where milk comes from very well

After visiting a working farm with my little daughter, she fell in love with the little lambs. Several months later we returned and I bought a leg of lamb for the freezer before we went to see the animals. All the lambs had gone and DD was a bit upset (understatement) when I told her they had gone off to become meat. Although I took my leg of lamb home, I couldn't bear to cook and eat it! We became a vegetarian (now vegan) family very quickly afterwards.

when my son was five, he beleived that brocolli was small trees where the goblins and fairies lived and if he should ever eat a morsel of brocolli, the fairies and goblins would die and the others would have nowhere to live.

not really an origins story, but my son wouldnt eat boiled potatoes, flat out refused to even put a mouthful in..... until i told him they were boiled chips, he suddenly decided he would eat those!

Mine thought for years that licorice was made with beetles blood

I blame DH for that one

I'm vegetarian so this turned my stomach. My son thought bacon came from a pig with sunburn. Eurgh!

Actually, not my kids but my DH - then well in his 40s - steadfastly refused to believe that Rice Krispies were made of rice, or that popcorn was made of corn. It was like that advert years ago "what on earth did you think they WERE made of then??" but he was having none of it and thought we were winding him up!

We had pork for dinner yesterday, 4 year old DS wanted to know if it came from lobster or crab - I have no idea what his logic was...

Why is a chilli called a chilli when it's not cold but is hot and spicy? I think that chillis grow in the cold ground and that makes them really chilly and the only way to warm them up is by eating them as food. Or so says my sons

there have been many occasions one that made me laugh was when my daughter thought you catch fish from the sea breadcrumbs & all.

my son thinks milk shake comes from cows that jump up and down all day on trampolines eating the correct items to make strawberry banana or chocolate etc ( happy jumping moo cows)

We discuss the difference between animals for food and animals as pets / zoo animals.

My son shouted out at the Zoo "But mummy, where are the meerkats I can Eat?!" he was only 3, but lots of parents backed away horrified!

Matilda (4) says "Cheese is made out of BUTTER!!! They spread the butter out... then they mix it with cheese powder... then... they get... CHEESE!!!!" haha!

The eldest (8) was under the impression that guerrilla warfare, was something that took place between Gorillas.

My son was nursery school age and I came down the stairs in winter to find a gooey, melted Cadbury's creme egg on the top of the radiator, bursting out it's shiny paper. On asking why it was there and not in the fridge, my son replied he was trying to hatch it! Aww, I just had to smile. I'm imagining chocolate chickens now!

My 3 year old daughter thought milk was made by the milky bar kid and refused to believe me when I tried to explain it in fact comes from cows, she's still not happy with me and has informed me she's telling her Gran 'mummy was naughty because she was telling fibs' lol Xx

I'll never forget when my little girl concluded that fog is 'when the clouds don't know which way to go'

Well apparently the Easter bunny brings eggs all year round but once per year she is kind and lets them be chocolate flavoured. :)

I asked my 4 year old daughter where bananas come from she said monkeys lol

My daughter thought pigs lay sausages like a chicken lays an egg! I couldn't tell her the truth she was only 3! Xxx

I'm honest about where our food comes from and whilst making spaghetti bolognese one night I told my 5 year old that the mince beef is made from cows. She looked puzzled. So I said that the sausages we eat are made from pigs. She then looked like she understood. Later whilst eating tea, she decided to give her little sister a lesson on where her food came from and explained that the mince was made from cows. She then held up her spaghetti and said "and this is made from snakes"!