1 . When it comes to making lunch for their kids, parents have usual favorites. For some parents in the United States, those _________ choices are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

But Jenny Mollen has _________ an unusual ingredient(成分)to her children’s lunches. She uses funny-looking candy _________. Her children will eat any healthy food if it has eatable “eyeballs” attached. Mollen uses this _________ because her two sons don’t like to eat different kinds of foods. Therefore, she decorates their food to look like animals or even their favorite Pokemon   _________．

Mollen’s lunch _________ are easy to do. She doesn’t have to buy special ingredients. _________, she uses leftovers from dinner the night before and everyday items from her food storage area. She likes using sunflower seed butter to _________ her creations together.

Making artful lunches for Mollen’s children helps _________ her guilt. She is a working mother and she is not ____________ for her kids after school. Her artful lunches are her way of ____________ her children that she is missing them.

Mollen also wants to ____________ them healthy eating habits. She thinks that by getting kids to eat vegetables at a young age, they will grow up to eat healthy foods ____________ in life. She also thinks it is a good way to get children to try foods from other ____________, such as Chinese food. If they need to be tricked sometimes, Mollen is pleased to ____________.