Mum Creates Amazing Life-Like Characters From Pieces Of Fruit And Vegetables

A mother has revealed a unique way of getting her five-a-day - by turning pieces of fruit and vegetables into astonishing life-like characters. Lucy Gomes, 57, has a knack for transforming even the most humble of foods into amazing culinary delights that look far too good to eat. But she's really made a meal of it and has created thousands of individually carved creations which she shares to a fascinated online audience via instagram and her blog. Lucy said: "I look at a piece of fruit or vegetable and sometimes I see an animal or character straight away. Other times I will think what it could be made into. "Other times I have an animal in mind, and I will think which fruit or vegetable I could use to make them. Like I made a crab out of two red apples.