BREADY FREDDIE I want to bake free

A FOOD artist created a bite-size Freddie Mercury to encourage her daughter to eat lunch.

Gilat Orkin started making pitta people from dough to encourage her little girl Eylon to eat lunch.

And the mum-of-two, from Israel, has now created a string of incredible portraits from bread, veg and lettuce.

As well as “Bready Mercury” she has also depicted “Roll-ing”

Stone Sir Mick

Jagger, David

Bowie and artists

“Vincent Van

Dough” and “Picnicasso”.

Gilat, 50, is now a successful food artist with more than

14,000 Instagram followers.

She said: “When Eylon started going to school, she wouldn’t eat her sandwiches, so I decided I needed to be more creative with her food.

“A couple of weeks later I thought I’d make it interesting and turn it into a history lesson, so every day I’d make her a sandwich based on a historical event or person. Each day I make something that happened that day – a historical event, the birthday of a person or the anniversary of something.

“A few years later, a friend of mine told me people weren’t interested in photos of my children or my dogs and suggested to open a separate account of my food art. “Eylon doesn’t eat them any more but I kept doing them for fun.

“At the beginning I used to do plain surfaces with fondant, but it’s not very tasty and healthy so I try to avoid it.

“I never thought this was going to happen. I’ve been making art all my life but my breakthrough was pitta bread.”

Gilat uses all types of food to complete her projects including vegetables and biscuits. The only non-edible ingredient is the eyelashes. Each project can take from a few hours to days.