When is a vegetable not a vegetable? LOL

**yummymummy_2006** · 09-11-2009, 08:29 AM

Answers on a postcard please!

Just been putting stickers on change for life chart and child commented that he had crisps yesterday so they count as one of his 5 a day because they are made of potatoes and potatoes are a vegetable.

**Chatterbox Childcare** · 09-11-2009, 08:55 AM

chocolate! that is a vegetable - comes from a bean...

will I get away with that? I think not...

**angeldelight** · 09-11-2009, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by yummymummy_2006

Answers on a postcard please!

Just been putting stickers on change for life chart and child commented that he had crisps yesterday so they count as one of his 5 a day because they are made of potatoes and potatoes are a vegetable.

Very funny

Angel xx

**yummymummy_2006** · 09-11-2009, 09:21 AM

We had the discussion all the way up to school

In the end I asked the child to ask his teacher to explain why potatoes aren't classed as a vegetable in your 5 a day

**merry** · 09-11-2009, 01:10 PM

I look after a 9 year old who insists a chocolate orange counts as 2

**Merry-Minder** · 09-11-2009, 01:14 PM

Strawberry cheesecake - has 2 major food groups in. YUM YUM!!!!!!

**The Juggler** · 09-11-2009, 02:42 PM

what are you lot like!!! wine has grapes in it - does that count?

**margimum** · 09-11-2009, 03:55 PM

If sweetcorn is a vegetable why aren't cornflakes?

I've eaten all the orange and strawberry creams from a tin of quality street, surely they count too!

**sweets** · 09-11-2009, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by margimum

If sweetcorn is a vegetable why aren't cornflakes?

I've eaten all the orange and strawberry creams from a tin of quality street, surely they count too!

bleur

you can come to my house and eat all the orange and strawberry creams if you like as they always get left and eventually thrown away! horrible things!

**Madminder** · 10-11-2009, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by yummymummy_2006

Answers on a postcard please!

Just been putting stickers on change for life chart and child commented that he had crisps yesterday so they count as one of his 5 a day because they are made of potatoes and potatoes are a vegetable.

If you want a serious answer though, don't they have to be fresh, tinned, frozen or juiced to count? I am sure I have seen some advertising to that effect somewhere, try the change 4 life website.