DIY
When you have kids, you'll find that one of the biggest issues you are confronted with is getting them to eat whatever it is you have laid down before them. Children are incredibly picky when it comes to food and it can become pretty draining for their parents who want nothing more than to sit down to a meal without any further hassle.
That's why some parents will try coming up with ways to ensure their kids have extra incentive to eat the food on their plate. For instance, there are these Food Cubby dividers that prevent different foods from touching each other on the plate - made for the pickiest of picky eaters.
But if you're in the same boat and are feeling particularly creative, you might want to give Laleh Mohemedi's ingenious technique a try. She creates lunches - inspired by animated kids' movies - in a bid to get her son excited about eating healthily.
Here are just a few examples of her work, taken from her Instagram page:
1. Bob Minion from Despicable Me
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Made using veal ravioli with carbonara sauce (dyed using blue spirulina) mushrooms and tortilla wrap.
2. Lady & The Tramp
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Made using spelt pancakes with plums, oranges, and blueberries.
3. Kermit the Frog & Miss Piggy
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Made using baked potato with avocado, basil, bocconcini, basil, red capsicum, free-range ham, purple cabbage, cheddar cheese.
4. Winnie the Pooh
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Made using wholemeal couscous with sweet mash, capsicum, parsley, carrots, tomatoes, and mini turkey meatballs.
5. Cogsworth & Lumiere from Beauty & the Beast
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Made using creamy cauliflower soup and lentils served with spelt bread roll.
6. Scar from The Lion King
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Made using dahl (lentils) with mash potato and wild rice.
7. Donald Duck
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A delicious and nutritious Donald Duck Smoothie Bowl!
8. Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians
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Made using spelt pancakes with blackberries, apple, blueberries, shredded coconut, whipped cream and cocoa cream cheese.
9. Princess Jasmine from Aladdin
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Made using noodles with black fungus, yellow capsicum, purple cabbage, pickled ginger, and radish.
10. Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid
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Made using spelt pancakes with frozen berries, honeydew melon, and peach.
11. Red from Angry Bird
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Made using strawberries, watermelon, plum, cucumber, flatbread, and back sesame seeds.
12. Sebastian from The Little Mermaid
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Made using watermelon with Persian feta and Lebanese bread.
13. Abu from Aladdin
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Made using braised beef, sautéed mushrooms, mash potato, eggs, tomato, and broccolini
14. Disgust from Inside Out
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Made using kale, spinach, macadamia pesto with broccolini and cucumber.
15. Ursula from The Little Mermaid
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Made using grilled octopus, whiting, mash potato, oyster mushrooms, brushed with butterfly pea powder, and vegetables.
16. Snow White
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Made using spelt pancakes with fruit.
17. Sully from Monsters Inc
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Made using cold noodles with organic eggs, carrots, purple cabbage and radish. Sully has been dyed blue using organic blue matcha.
18. Jack Jack from Incredibles 2
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Made using crumbed free-range chicken with mash potato and veggies.
19. Goofy
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Made using roast chicken with wild rice, mash potatoes, broccoli, and tomato.
20. Minnie Mouse
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Made using black bean pasta with Napoletana sauce, yellow carrots, red capsicum and bocconcini.
21. Chucky from Rugrats
Credit: Jacob's Food Diaries
Made using wild Australian Salmon with mash potato and vegetables (blue pancake was made using organic blue matcha).
Oh, if only we could all be this creative! Which one is your favourite?
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