Remember when you wouldn't eat your greens - and your mum told you to clear your plate or there'd be no pudding (what? Just my household?)? Well, Brazilian Nívea Salgado has found the cutest way to coax her daughter out of her picky eating ways.

When toddler Catarina started turning down any fruit but apples, Nívea got creative. According to her auntie Monique Fróes, "Now Catarina eats very well, not only fruit but also vegetables. She even helps elaborate the dishes by asking her mom to add the images of her favorite characters and stuffed animals to them."

Result. Now Nívea: what would it take for you to come and make our dinner-time a whole lot lovelier?

Rapunzel with spaghetti hair, a dress of egg and a tower of mince

A mermaid with a carrot bikini and rocket tail

Snow White made from pancakes and apples

Balloons of starfruit, apple, nutella and popcorn clouds

Hello Kitty with rice, tomato, lettuce and limes

Melon and apple Tinkerbell (her head's made of toast and cheese spread, BTW)

A lion for breakfast. Bread, cheese, Nutella, grapes and strawberries

Mickey and Minnie from cheese spread, bread, kiwis and strawberries

Princess Elsa = bread, cream cheese, cheese, melon and biccies

Apple and ham Peppa Pig (of course) standing on some lovely grapes

Tomato Little Red Riding Hood. Chicken Big Bad Wolf