
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 🙂
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