It’s a Clangers Diet this week, in honour of the Rosetta Comet Landing!
Rosetta comet landing highlight. Photo: ESA
We sci-fi and space fans have to celebrate the European Space Agency’s fantastic achievement in landing the Philae probe on the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet today after a ten year, 300 million mile journey! And what better way to celebrate than with a diet inspired by the comet’s most likely inhabitants, the Clangers 🙂
Have you heard the unearthly space sounds recorded from the Rosetta comet landing? Click here for the audio recording! It’s amazing. And doesn’t the far-away look and sound of the comet remind you of something?
For those who weren’t lucky enough to grow up with the Clangers, here’s a little catch-up:
Find more of the Clangers on YouTube and Amazon UK
See? Music in space! It’s starter sci fi for toddlers 🙂
So what can we do for a Clangers Diet?
This is what the Clangers eat:
The Clangers make Blue String Pudding
- Blue string pudding (I’ll try spaghetti or spaghetti squash with blue food colouring!)
- Soup, fetched from the Soup Dragon’s soup wells of course
- And for treats, one bag of chocolate money, caught by fishing from the music boat in space
Here are some Useful Recipes
- Here’s my Blue String Pudding Recipe
- Here’s a Carrot, Coriander and Lentil Soup Recipe
And also this week:
- Watch the Clangers, read about the comet, get the kids enthusiastic, and learn about space exploration
And why will this work?
- Soup is a good diet food (see ‘Soups for Weight Loss‘), although some are better than others (see ‘Worst Soups for Weight Loss‘).
- Human beings have a natural aversion to blue foods, since they appear so seldom in nature
- One bag of chocolate money over a week is a pretty nice treat, and not too much of it.
Wish me luck! It’s off to a good start already, watching Clangers videos and listening to space, both popular with all my kids 🙂
Links
The Rosetta Comet Landing: News Links
- ESA Photos from the Rosetta Comet Landing
- (VIDEO) BBC: ‘Down on the surface’: The moment Philae comet landing confirmed
- (VIDEO) CNN: Space probe scores a 310-million-mile bull’s-eye with comet landing
- BoingBoing: Space success: Philae makes historic touchdown on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
- The Guardian: Rosetta’s success will illuminate the origins of life – it’s a billion well spent
- New York Times: Landing on a Comet, a Mission Aims to Unlock Earth’s Mysteries
- New Scientist: The final countdown: Days from the toughest space landing ever
- #BBCtrending: Rosetta comet sings loud and clear
The Clangers Links
- BBC Cult Classics: The Clangers
- The Telegraph: Why ‘The Clangers’ is the best children’s TV show ever
- IMDB: The Clangers
- A very good Clangers playlist on YouTube
- Find the Clangers DVDs and other goodies from Amazon UK
Diet, Nutrition and Health Links
- H2G2: Food and the Colour Blue
- The Guardian: How we Taste Different Colours
- Snopes Messageboards: How many naturally blue foods are there?
- Soups for Weight Loss
- The Worst Soups for Weight Loss
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What fun food tie-ins! We are talking about oceans right now for homeschool, but the planets and space will be happening later this year.
That sounds like fun! We made the Earth out of bread and cheese once 🙂