When it comes to making lunch for their kids, moms and dads have usual favorites. For some parents in the United States, those favorites are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches also known as PB&Js. Fruit like apples and bananas are also popular. But one mother has an unusual go-to ingredient for her children’s lunches. Jenny Mollen uses funny-looking candy eyes. She has learned that her children will eat any healthy food if it has edible eyeballs attached. The “eyeballs” are really pieces of candy. Her children laugh while they eat healthy foods like bell peppers, kiwis, or dates. The writer and actor says candy “eyes” make lunch more fun. She wrote about her creative school lunches in a book, Dictator Lunches: Inspired Meals that Will Compel Even the Toughest of Children. “Honestly, first of all, just buy yourself some candy googly eyes. They (are) tried-and-true,” she said. She admits that “you lose something nutritionally” by giving children candy. But she thinks that getting children to eat healthy food by putting candy on it is worth it.