Her six-year-old son turned his nose up at sandwiches and sticks of carrot. So Grace Hall transformed them into aliens, elephants and superheroes.
Now he cannot wait to open his packed lunch every day and tuck into his favourite characters.
With the help of a few cutters and moulds, former accountant Mrs Hall has turned sandwiches into Spiderman, hard-boiled eggs into sheep and melons into Easter chicks…while making hundreds of healthy lunches.
Her blog, showing photographs of the culinary creations, is followed by 7,500 other mothers.
The 32-year-old, from Winchester, was inspired by the bento-style lunch boxes seen in Japan, traditionally created from sushi rice, meat and fish and sometimes turned into fun characters and cartoons.
The artistic mother goes to incredible lengths to delight her six year old, turning sandwiches into Spiderman, Santa and the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
For Grace, the novelty lunches come to her naturally as she remembers her own mother using fruit to make faces in homemade bread when she was a child.
Although this may sound like a lot of time and effort, Grace says they can suit mums in a hurry as she never spends more than 15 minutes creating the lunches.
Grace insists that she enjoys the daily tasks and has turned a potential chore into something she looks forward to doing. She has even admitted to actually missing her creations during school holidays.
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