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 little cousin thought that toast was bread that had been left out of the packet. Didn't stop him eating it though!

We kind of dance around the subject - I don['t want to put her off her meat!

"Can we grow chicken?"
"What do you mean "grow chicken"?"
"Like the strawberries!"
"You know chicken is chickenS right? The birds...?"
".... "

my 4 year old has GDD and his ideas of where food comes from can be comical at time.

since growing our own veg he has taken to eating veg now apart from Carrots since last December .....im sure we all know why! he is sure they are Kevin's family and waits for them to talk to him!

He wont eat a jacket potato because it might get cold!
ask him about milkshakes and he will tell you mummy shakes the cow and he wont eat an egg because he things the chicken will be upset if you eat her baby

My little boy thought tomato soup was a bowl of blood and refused to eat it . He also asked me why chicken nuggets were called chicken like the animal what an awkward conversation that was

My little boy told me a story last week that Ice Lollies came from where santa lives! There are other helpers who take care of santas land who pull them out the ground like carrots lol! They are treats for all the good children from santa. Best story I've heard in all my time, he has some imagination x

My son has been very enquisitive lately and the questions have been driving me bonkers! Nine times out of ten I tell him it's all made In a factory as the questions don't stop it's sometimes easier lol. But last week he asked me where Bread comes from so I explained the process of wheat and everything else and when I went to do the gardening I found bread hanging from my rose bush. At first when I thought maybe it was for the birds but then he said it was because he wanted to grow bread. I nearly wet myself laughing lol. X

My 4 year old granddaughter kept saying "can I have one of those bum things Nana?" Turned out she wanted an apricot out of my fruit bowl. We'll never look at apricots the same way again!

My Granddaughter Olivia who is 7 thought that Scotch eggs come from chickens in Scotland x

My daughter Jessica is 4.5 years old, she was born with one kidney so scans are quite the norm to her! We recently went for a check up and scan and she had been eating jelly babies in the waiting room, when the sonographer started her scan she asked "so how many babies have I got in there? Is it triplets?!" The look on his face and mine was a picture! She is really convinced eating jelly babies makes you pregnant - kids are so innocently hilarious x

we are vegetarians and grow a lot of food my granddaughters still dont understand how the flowers on the bushes turn into raspberries

My LO was very put out when he asked for a hamburger with his Happy Meal & I handed it to him.
'There's no ham in this!' - he exclaimed - 'This is just a burger!'
I think he was expecting a burger constructed solely from his beloved sliced ham!

Last year at a party my son was given a bottle of chocolate milk...before I had chance to whip it away he said mummy is this milk from brown cows?! I didnt know whether to laugh or cry then why I tried to explain it was chocolate milk he asked why the farmer fed the cows chocolate and why he couldnt have been a cow who drank chocolate! Oohhh it got a bit complicated and funny!!! It took a while for him to get his head around

Emily was upset when she realised that the lambs she was petting were going to end up on someone's dinner plate.

my little boy thought eggs came from cows at one point! hahaha

My son thinks so literal, Turkey/chicken drumsticks, are sticks the turkey/chickens uses to play the drums.

My three year old DS said he didn't like chickens peas... chickpeas! Then tonight he insisted they were called sweet peas...

When DS was little, was explaining to him about how sometimes what a mummy eats, can be tasted through booby milk. He loves strawberries and I ate a lot of them when I was breastfeeding him. Which was part of the story. He was then asking about where the milk comes from that we drink now, I said cow boobies. So he came to the conclusion that chocolate milk was when the cows ate chocolate and so forth. Did make me chuckle at the time.

My little one won't eat spaghetti or pasta. She thinks they are grown in the earth on a farm and that people dig them up and cook them. I have no idea where this comes from but even after showing them uncooked pasta it makes no difference at all. I've told them exactly how it is made but she gets really upset if i even put it near her lol

We visited a farm that had chickens and I told my son that's where chicken nuggets come from. He replied, "No they don't. Chicken Nuggets come from McDonald's Happy Meals!"

My two children were arguing and I asked them why.
"Roxy said a bad bad word!"
My older daughter Roxy looked confused as her sister Charlie pointed the finger at her.
"What bad word did Roxy say then Chuck?" I asked her.
"I can't say it...can I say it?" Asked Charlie.
I allowed it!
"Roxy said she went to a party and her friend had loads of... penis!"
She of course meant Peanuts. She has a bit of a lisp, so it still sounds more like Penis when she says it. Its filed away for when my Charlie one day gets married, and I produce a big bowl of 'Penis' for the ceremony! x

When my son was five years old we were driving by a church with a graveyard and he piped up from the back of the car " Is that where gravy is made ? "!!

Thankfully No

DS2 always loved green vegetables, anything green in fact. We had raspberries in the garden and he'd toddle out looking for the green ones and insisting they were the best.
When he'd tried corn on the cob, he became most indignant that peas on the cob wasn't an option as well.

My daughter thought that milk chocolate came direct from the cows!

It was Christmas Eve and DD, then four, wandered into the kitchen while DH was preparing the turkey for the oven (we have our first Christmas meal by candlelight on Christmas Eve). DD asked what it was - DH said it is a turkey. DD then announced, "Poor turkey - he hasn't got a mouth to eat with or feet to run - did someone shoot him?" I managed to edge her out of the kitchen while DH explained that the turkey having had a really nice life (luckily it was free range). The excitement of Christmas Eve then overtook her interest in how the turkey died.