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Very impressive .

 

 

Grace remembers her own mother using fruit to make faces in the homemade bread that formed her childhood lunches.
 

 

 

 

 

 

Grace Hall 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.

 
Grace says she usually spends only a few minutes on each lunchbox

 

 
Grace says that she spends a little longer on lunchboxes for special occasions, such as this Easter one

Grace says that she spends a little longer on lunchboxes for special occasions, such as this Easter one

 
Grace says she never buys specialist ingredients and just uses what's left around the house

 

 

 

She fashions snails from a bread roll decorated with cheese for eyes, carrots carved into flowers and a cheese and ham toastie that looks like a pig.

Other characters creations include Elmer the Elephant, the Gruffalo, Thomas the Tank Engine, Goldilocks and the Funny Bones skeletons.

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.

 
Above all, Grace tries to make each lunch as healthy as possible

Above all, Grace tries to make each lunch as healthy as possible

 
Since she started creating the lunch boxes, Grace's son has gained much more of an appetite

Since she started creating the lunch boxes, Grace's son has gained much more of an appetite

 
Grace asks her son to make special requests to give her inspiration

 

 

 

 

 

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Grace was inspired by the bento boxes of Japan, which are broken up into different compartments

Grace was inspired by the bento boxes of Japan, which are broken up into different compartments

 
Her creations, posted on her blog, have gained the former accountant a loyal following of 7,500 readers

Her creations, posted on her blog, have gained the former accountant a loyal following of 7,500 readers

 
Grace's husband has even been involved in the project, helping her out after the birth of their second son
 
Grace has created more than 300 different lunches - such as this football-themed one - for her son
 
Grace uses leftovers from the family dinners to make sure nothing goes to waste
 
Grace gains inspiration from her son's story books - this one has a knight's theme, complete with sandwich cut to look like a castle and cucumber and carrot 'shields'

Grace gains inspiration from her son's story books - this one has a knight's theme, complete with sandwich cut to look like a castle and cucumber and carrot 'shields'

 

 

 

 

 
Grace remembers her mum making her novelty lunches when she was younger
 
Grace has inspired other mothers who are having trouble getting their children to eat
 
Staff at her son's school keep a keen eye out for the latest creations

 

 

 
Grace's son eagerly watches his mother prepare his meals every day
 
Grace asks her son for requests
This world book day lunchbox took a little longer than usual
 
Creativelu used Babybells, as above, are a regular theme in the lunchboxes

 

 

 

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Originally Posted by Pengy:
Originally Posted by erinp:

Pengy she spends no more than 15 mins making them ,and she gets the child to eat.

I am in awe of her erin   I can just about do a cheese and brown sauce buttie and he son must really look forward each day wondering what he's going to get - lucky little sod 

 

 

ask her if she's fostering  

Dame_Ann_Average
Originally Posted by Saint:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Saint:

Its reformed, mechanically recovered, pulled pork bear

Its supposed to be healthy food made to look cute   not mechanically recovered yuk-meat.

Says who?

I'm veggie . . . enjoy

I mean they're not nicking her idea for healthy food made cute. That's unhealthy food made cute. Wot u on about?

 

FM
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Saint:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Saint:

Its reformed, mechanically recovered, pulled pork bear

Its supposed to be healthy food made to look cute   not mechanically recovered yuk-meat.

Says who?

I'm veggie . . . enjoy

I mean they're not nicking her idea for healthy food made cute. That's unhealthy food made cute. Wot u on about?

 

Dunno 

Saint
Originally Posted by Saint:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Saint:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by Saint:

Its reformed, mechanically recovered, pulled pork bear

Its supposed to be healthy food made to look cute   not mechanically recovered yuk-meat.

Says who?

I'm veggie . . . enjoy

I mean they're not nicking her idea for healthy food made cute. That's unhealthy food made cute. Wot u on about?

 

Dunno 

FM

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