Mother’s Day has come and gone and for Seven Sharp host Hilary Barry, the occasion’s been marked with an “utterly unexpected” gift to remember.<\/p>\n
Barry took to social media last night to reveal what her eldest son put on the dinner table for the celebration \u2013 a plant-based “chook”.<\/p>\n
“I got hemp chicken for Mother\u2019s Day,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
“The hemp chicken was actually delicious and utterly unexpected.”<\/p>\n
The veteran broadcaster also revealed while she wasn’t a vegetarian, she was “very vege open-minded”.<\/p>\n
According to Callaghan Innovation, hemp chicken was developed in response to many meat alternatives that were being produced in New Zealand using imported proteins.<\/p>\n
“Sustainable Foods however, wanted to lower the impact on the planet and find a New Zealand-based alternative for their new \u2018chicken\u2019 product,” the agency said. <\/p>\n
The result used hemp protein, pea protein, gluten, and oils to create a fibrous, “meaty” texture.<\/p>\n
Still, one Facebook user said Barry’s gift “sounds pretty out of it”.<\/p>\n
“I think being able to say you got a hemp chicken for Mother’s Day is a gift in itself,” another added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day has come and gone and for Seven Sharp host Hilary Barry, the occasion’s been marked with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,1073,111,139,69,6445],"class_list":["post-421838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-media","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tvnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}