Food and your dolls

I try to keep my dolls away from food, as I'm scared that anything will get on them and I won't be able to get it off. :c I don't think it's that dangerous to them as long as it's not sticky or anything. My dollies do have diets of course, but only to add to their character and not to have them fed actual food. o:

 

I feel like one of the big advantages that dolls have over animate kids and real pets is that you DON'T have to worry about feeding them! (Says the woman who currently has a cat sitting on the corner of her desk, begging for a piece of her breakfast toast. )

I don't take my crew out to places that have food very often any more, but back when I *did* do that occasionally with doll-friends, we would just sit the dolls on the far end of the table, well away from the food. That kept them from getting dirty and gave us the opportunity to chat without having to worry about holding on to them. We never packed them a lunch or anything like that.

 

I really like the look of miniature foods since I think they're adorable, so I do have quite the collection of little cookies and cakes and things I sometimes like to give them. But that's mostly just cause I think it's cute to see them holding food in their size, not because it fits with any sort of diet or anything. I keep all real food away from them, especially since a couple are dressed primarily in light colors and I'd hate for any accidents to happen.

 

Personally, I also keep real food away from my dolls and I've never used them as props unless they're sealed in some sort of container that I also use as a prop.

As for miniature food, I like how realistic it can be sometimes but, depending on its size, it can only be used by dolls of a certain scale, so I rarely use food (real or not) as a prop.

 

I bought mini apples that I thought were perfect since they look doll sized. They are real apples, but I doubt they will harm my doll.

Other than that, I think I would like to buy fake food. There are some cute ones I have seen.

 

I like for my dolls to have food. Photoshoots with tiny foods are just fun! They even have a fully stocked bar, pizza, donuts, coffee, dishes....All fake food of course.

However, I have done pix with real food. Just the other day I got Jack a real cake for his Sweet 16, got some pix with it...posed him to appear to be touching the neon blue icing...and his arm snapped, grabbed the icing and flung it in his wig. >.< I may stick to fake food from now on.

As for diets? Yes, they do have diets. For example, Amir is strict vegetarian, Dhani only eats kosher foods, Kaid has some restrictions (most notably no pork), Parker only eats fresh healthy foods and no meat other than seafood or poultry, Justin is allergic to pineapple and nuts, Loki HATES tomatoes and will do anything to avoid them....then there's Kier who has an unhealthy obsession with eating EVERYTHING put in front of him. haha These are all character traits, but I still try to be sure that they aren't "eating" anything in photoshoots that their character wouldn't actually eat.

 

They all have food props, like Iwako erasers and little fake cakes and cookies, and burgers. I have posed them with real food as well, but was careful with it. Tiny homemade pies, Avalon hugging a plate of muffins, (that were in a bag so he wasn't actually touching them) about to grab a muffin... Most of the food pictures almost always involves Avalon and something. They have aprons so I plan to take a picture of one of them with their apron "helping" in the kitchen. I like those kinds of photoshoots and think they're fun.

At meetups though, I do my best to keep my hands clean. I will eat there, but at a separate table and I'll use hand sanitizer or hand wipes to clean my hands off of any grease or anything that might get on my or someone else's dolls.

 

Generally, no food is allowed near my dolls. I don't want the oil to change the resin color or eat into the resin.
As for doll food, I've been collecting stuff for my tea party theme, which I'll get around to some day.
I've been slowly collecting crockery and cakes and stuff, but it's a slow process coz EID and Soom sized stuff is hard to get. My guys are generally not human so it's not human food they want but some of them have picked up bad habits like drinking and smoking.

 

I don't think I'll do real food, but the plastic stuff is just as yummy ^.^ Erin is to lazy to make food, if he "cooks" its ramen noodles in packets, if he is provided food its usually something extremely fancy from his family. He doesn't eat much though, he's pretty bad at holding food down.

 

I LOVE making mini food for my dolls! I saw some on Pinterest once and was hooked! I am a professional artist in real life, so I thought, I bet I can figure out how to do this! So I did! Wasn't very good at first, but practice makes perfect! Pretty soon my dollie friends wanted some too. Which is awesome, because now we can have picnics together!

 

I didn't buy any miniature foods, but neither keep close to real food ^^;;; I am not good user of that miniature for my photos and usually most of food I love to eat has very thick smell of it lol

 

I found some polymer clay mini foods on Listia that are perfect MSD size.

 

I would keep my doll away from real food, but I love to make food miniatures out of polymer clay!

 

I finally found another Listian! Haha, sorry! I make polymer clay minis, and though it probably wasn't me, do you mind me asking who you bought the miniatures from?

 

I always forbid myself to bring my dolls near any foods, I don't want them to mell like a garlic -_- or other seasonings smell..
I made them food out of paperclay, and I ever had short course to make something out from clay in my younger age^^

 

I love prop food, and wouldn't be TOO hung up about taking them to meets with snacks and stuff. I wouldn't eat something super messy around them, though, and they wouldn't sit out at a restaurant or anything.

 

I photograph my dolls with real food all the time. I'm probably the doll owner everyone is horrified by and wants to accuse of carelessness because of my photography adventures, but ehh... they're my dolls and they can be cleaned up afterwards. I've photographed my dolls holding or touching 'messy' food as well, including Oliver's hands in a dish of caramel pudding, Zach and Noé both holding a real (sticky) candy cane, and having Tyler 'help' me with baking cookies. I do try to avoid things that are known to stain; chocolate, tomatoes, strawberries, but generally the sky's the limit. Shoot me for my recklessness. =P

My dolls also have prop food too, and I enjoy photographing them with their own appropriately-sized foods.

Like [MENTION=44438]CloakedSchemer[/MENTION] my doll characters all have diets and/or food preferences. All my Erisan characters, for instance, are vegan (and will often eat plants that Earth people wouldn't necessarily consider as food) Remi is a vegetarian, and so is Apple. Hunter is a carnivore and mostly only eats meat and dairy. Oliver has a peanut allergy. Beau has a shellfish allergy. Gabriel is a truly finicky eater and doesn't like to try new things unless he's sure he'll like it. Most notably among my resin folks, Tyler is on a strict medically-prescribed diet (which he sometimes doesn't follow). If I'm writing about them or photographing them, I keep their food preferences/requirements "in character" for each one.