So I thought I’d interview the Ankle Biters about food today. Surely with me for a mother they are budding gourmands with sophisticated likes, right? Let’s find out.

Son and Heir. Age 4. His answers italicised.
What is your favourite snack?
Sultanas and bananas

What is your favourite breakfast?
Mmm, porridge. Just porridge.

What is your favourite lunch
Um. I don’t know what we eat for lunch. What do we eat for lunch? Can you tell me?

No. What is your favourite lunch?
Pizza.

We never have pizza for lunch.
Oh. I don’t know what we eat for lunch. We have wraps sometimes.

What do you like in wraps?
Cheese. Nothing else. That’s all I like. And I like tuna and avocado. Prawns. I really, really love prawns. But I need help taking the skin and head off.

What is your favourite dinner.
Pasta and pizza. And avocado.

What pasta sauce do you like?
Tomato with meat.

What do you like on your pizza?
Just cheese and just tomato. I do like ham and olives.

What’s your very favourite food in the whole world.
Sultanas (the last answer was given with a mouthful of sultanas. Primacy and recency in action)

Why did the chicken cross the road?
I don’t know. I can’t remember. Leave me alone.

Lil Miss. Age 2. Answers in italics.
What is your favourite snack?
Banana

What is your favourite breakfast?
Toast

What do you like on your toast?
Butter

What is your favourite lunch?
Sandwich and trampoline (?!?)

What do you like on your sandwich?
Toast and butter

What is your favourite dinner?
Pasta

What do you like on your pasta?
Toast and pasta

What pasta sauce do you like?
Toast

What else do you like to eat?
Toast with butter
And more fruit toast. With pasta.

Why did the chicken cross the road?
‘Cos

Oh yeah. I’m doing a great job. Yay me, super Mumma creating mini-gourmet-maestros. I rock. At least it explains why I bake so much bread.