A really good idea helping our kids to appreciate food

in #food6 years ago

What a great idea

This is just fantastic and a great idea by German supermarket Lidl. They entered the Irish market in July 2000 and have slowly but surely eaked out a solid foothold.

They recently started this offer, where every €20 you spend gets you a little vegetable growing pack.

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Great thing to do with the kids and teach them where food comes from

My kids absolutely loved helping out in planting these with me today.

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Very clever design

They present these in a very tidy little box which includes your initial pot, soil, seed bag and marker..

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That little brown circle is tightly compressed soil. You place it on a saucer and add 30ml of clean water. Wait a minute and hey presto you have some nice wet soil... Genius!! Here is a before and after :o)

Before

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After

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Amazing!!

So, we planted 6 of the bad boys...

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So here they are now on the windowsill in our kitchen. They'll stay here for a few weeks until they get going and soon after we'll transfer them into bigger pots.

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The boys have absolutely loved getting their fingers dirty and seeing where vegetables come from!

Thanks a million for reading.

Peace Out,

@ablaze

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This reminds me of the time our national school teacher showed us how to pot a plant and look after it, the teacher then assigned a pupil which happened to be a girl to look after and water the plant regularly, unfortunately the plant never got watered and dried up.... it was at that point I decided that this girl was not wife material 😄. (Just kidding I’m sure she is a great person now)

Ha ha... Sure you could marry her yet ;o)

haha are you proposing a bit of Facebook stalking to track her down 😄

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