I would doubt that Laleh Mohmedi scolds her son, Jacob, very often for playing with his food. Her Instagram account, called jacobs_food_diaries has "Making healthy food fun!" in the description. Her feed is filled with cartoon characters and kid favorites — all faces made by food.
There's Snow White, aka spelt pancakes with fruit. Pikachu is made with veal and spinach ravioli with Napoli sauce and broccoli. Patrick the Star has a smoked salmon sushi body with avocado swim trunks.
Laleh creates characters that older kids (like me, for example) would appreciate, too. In February, she created Will Smith, Fresh Prince era — made of mashed potato, tea, wild rice, whole meal wrap, radish, and melon.
For the 10 year anniversary of Heath Ledger's death, Laleh made an edible tribute of mashed potato, cream cheese, purple cabbage, sweet potato noodles, and sesame seeds.
She's even made Ellen Degeneres, complete with blonde pasta hair.
Now, along with the Instagram account, Laleh and Jacob have their very own YouTube channel. In the Jacob's Food Diaries videos, Jacob and his mom open some of the coolest new toys, and then Laleh makes a meal inspired by the toys. In episode 1 (there's four so far!) Jacob opens Incredibles 2 toys, and then Laleh creates one of the characters. Pretty cute, if you ask me!
The YouTube channel also includes a few tutorials for how to make characters out of food. Major props to Laleh for having the willpower to finish these faces without eating the food first. Instagram eats first, I suppose.
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