Some Things from 3lilangels

3lilangels got me some items again. So nice of her to even wrap the things nicely like a big Christmas present.

These are the items she got for me

These are for my sister in law. I forgot my sister in law wanted the food picks but 3lilangels still remembered and got that for me. So sweet of her.

Thanks 3lilangels.

P.S I forgot to mention that 3lilangels also included a huge lollipop. My boy took the lollipop away when he saw it so couldn't take pic of it.

Bento #33

Made this for J before we went out for dinner with hubby's family yesterday. J had been eating out often recently, so decided to make something for him while having dinner with us.


The lunch box consists of blanched broccoli, steamed pumpkin and potato. 2 small pitted oranges. I used scissors to remove the seeds before packing the oranges into the lunch box.

Bento #32

I made this for J yesterday during his nap. I made use the the smiley face cutters I have for the carrots. I used the quail egg molds that 3lilangels got for me for the quail eggs. J likes dark soy sauce for his hard boiled egg, so I made use of dark soy sauce to darken the face of the egg to make the bunny and dog imprint more obvious.

The lunch box consist of mayonnaise in the Hello Kitty mayo case, parmesan cheese in the furikake bottle, strawberries, Halloween pasta, carrot faces, quail eggs and broccoli. J likes blanched broccoli and eat with mayonnaise. I packed these in the Magadasca lunch box I got recently.

Bento #30 & #31

I made lunchboxes yesterday for J and ZY. Suppose to go to Zoo yesterday morning but we canceled our plans due to the rain. They ended up having the lunchboxes in a Japanese restaurant while we were having our dinner. Both had the same food, except different designs for the hard boiled eggs. The lunchboxes consists of a mixture of Mickey Mouse and Halloween pasta, hard boiled eggs and powdered cheese in a furikake bottle.

I prepared car shape hard boiled egg for J. I also prepared dark soy sauce in a fish shape sauce bottle to be eaten with hard boiled egg. He had that for the 1st time few days ago and like it very much.

ZY had a fish hard boiled egg.

Pooh Egg

Made this with a Pooh egg cutter. I made an egg sheet, used the cutter to get the shapes and give it face features peanut butter. I filled a sauce pen hubby got from Taiwan some time ago with peanut butter. I used chocolate chips for the eyes and nose.

Bento #29

Prepared this simple snack yesterday evening before we went to Inlaw's for dinner. J carried his school bag and asked for a snack box. So I took few minutes to do this.

Grapes, natto and Orange flavour polky. I got this Thomas lunch box from a bento swap with 3lilangels. It's J's favourite now.

Madagascar II Bento set

I got this Madagascar II bento set during a movie event. There's a booth set up prior the movie. I was attracted to the tumbler as I was told the plastic that tupperware used is long lasting unlike the usual plastic water bottles and it has lifetime warranty. If I decided to change for a new tumbler or other item, I can use tupperware product to ask for a change or credit note to get other items which I want. So I guess it'll be a good buy. The set consist of the lunch box, snack cup and tumbler. I got the other 2 bigger round containers at a cheaper price as I got the bento set. Was thinking can either use the containers for myself since it's air tight so can be quite useful or give to friends as Christmas present for their children. The small purple tumbler is a gift from the seller when I got the tupperware stuff.

New Loots from KaiKai

I just got these from a Hello Kitty shop in Chinatown point. Excited to find these on this trip, didn't get anything the last few times I went to the shop. Another exciting news is they going to bring in Mickey Mouse bento stuff. But dont know when the stock will be coming in.

Dinner

Just want to share what I did for J's dinner today. I got a set of alphabet cutters recently and J kept pestering me to use the cutters for him. So I made use of the cutters to form his name using carrots.

Bento #28

Made this for today's dinner for J. I stir fry some minced meat and used the bear silicon cup from Sharon to make the food more interesting. I got a set of nori punchers from Hokkaido so made use of the puncher to give the onigiri faces. I used the Hello Kitty lunch plate with cover for today's dinner. I like this lunch plate as it comes with a cover, let J open the dinner himself. It'll surprise him more.

Great Thanks to 3lilangels

I heard that the 100 yen shop in KL have the quail egg molds. Seeing they have cute quail egg molds, I asked 3lilangels to get some items for me in return I'll get somethings for her from Sg. So we had a bento swap. What you see here is only part of the items she got for me. She got some items for my sister in law as well, but I didnt manage to take pic of the items before gave them to her.The quail egg molds and lunch boxes are from 100 yen shop. The lunch box at the bottom sell the compartments separately, find it'll be useful so ask for the compartments as well. Happy to know that 1o0 yen shop have the Thomas lunch box too, my boy love Thomas. The spiderman pasta is a surprise gift. J and my niece love pasta. Told sister in law, we'll pack the pasta for lunchboxes to let the children to share.


This silicon cup is also a gift from 3lilangels. Isn't it cute? She gave us 2 bear silicon cups, so gave 1 to sister in law. Both of us were very happy and kept exclaiming how cute it is when we saw it.


These are the items I asked 3lilangels to get for me from a online shop in Malaysia. The postage is much cheaper to send to Malaysian then to Sg. Very kind of her to help me to order and get all these items to send to her sister, Wendy. Thanks Wendy.

Isn't it wonderful to know someone who has the same interest as you and help to get feed your addiction.

Bento #27

Today's snack consist of Disney pasta with powdered natto, carrot sticks, natto (looks like peanuts) and sweet corn.

I stirred in margarine after the pasta is cooked. Instead of using powdered cheese as usual, I used powdered natto for a change. As usual, J finished the snack for today. Glad that he likes the natto.

Bento #25 & #26

Prepared food for hubby and J this morning. Made hubby sandwich using multigrain bread with butter and fruit jam. I packed some grapes and cherry tomato as well.


This is J's snack for today. I steam some potato, wanted to sprinkle some powdered natto for him but I forgot. I blanched some broccoli, Justin likes to have mayonnaise with the broccoli so I packed it in the orange maybonnaise case. There are strawberries, grapes and cherry tomato included for today's snack as well.

Bento #24

The snack box consists of strawberries, multigrain bread and carrot sticks. I spread cream cheese and sprinkle powdered natto onto the bread before rolling. I read that natto is a very nutritious food, so tried to sprinkle some onto the bread for a new taste.

Bento #23

Today's snack consist of grapes, quail eggs, underneath the quail eggs is the edamame and Holloween theme pasta I just got from Muji yesterday. Cant resist not buying cute looking pasta, so grab it the moment I saw the pasta. J asked for pasta when I asked what he wants for today's snack.

I created a balloon and flower grapes with the help of cute looking food picks, a small animal fork for the pasta. I stirred in margarine and furikake for the pasta before packed into the lunch box.

Bento #22

Today's snack consist of strawberries, Disney shaped pasta and steamed carrot stick. I stirred in margarine after the pasta is cooked. I packed parseman cheese in the bunny furikake bottle.

Happy to know that nowadays he'll finished everything that I packed for him. Usually will have some leftover, and will finish them on the way home.

Bento #21

Today's snack consist of strawberries, blanch broccoli and steamed potato. I also pack in mayonnaise in the mayonnaise case. The last time I packed in blanch broccoli, he didn't eat much but finished it when I offered to him after his class.

I'm happy to know from the teacher that J can handle the mayonnaise case himself. He even 'taught' the teacher how to use it.

Bento #20

Today's snack consist of pizza and strawberries. I stir fry the yellow capsicum and fresh button mushroom till cooked. Spread ready-to-eat pizza sauce on to frozen pizza crust, sprinkle a layer of morzella cheese and cheddar cheese, layered with cooked capsicum and mushroom and finally sprinkle more cheeses. Baked till the cheese melted, cut into smaller pieces. I only packed in 3 pieces of pizza for J, which seemed just nice for him. I used the new cinnamonroll bento box for today's snack, got this lunch box from Sanrio in Hokkaido.

Bento #19

Today's snack consist of grapes, broccoli and Disney pasta. I also packed in 2 pieces of ravioli. The orange container is mayo for the broccoli. I still have some Hello Kitty fishcake in my fridge so added to today's snack. I stirred in margarine and parmesan cheese for the pasta and ravioli before I pack them into the box.

Bento #17 & Bento #18

Made these this morning for hubby's breakfast and J's snack in school. Had a simple snack for today as it has been quite some time since we had multigrain bread.

J's snack consist of multigrain bread with cheese spread and tuna, I also prepared strawberries and dried longan for him. I rolled the bread with a sushi mat and cut to 4 pieces

This is hubby's breakfast: Triple deck tuna multigrain sandwich and grapes. I put in a plastic sheet as the base for the sandwich to prevent bread crumbs from dropping from the collapsible sandwich box.

This is my newly bought Furoshiki from Daiso in Hokkaido. I got few furoshiki from Hokkaido, as it's hard to find in Sg. But not many in Hokkaido too, limited designs.

Loots from Hokkaido

Just came back from Hokkaido last night, managed to get these stuff while shopping around the shopping areas. Some are from Daiso in Hokkaido, some are random buys from other small shops.
1st row: Shinkansen stencils with spoon, nori face punches, small containers from Daiso and Cinnamon roll sauce bottles and containers
2nd row: cutters and silicon cups
3rd row: cutters and forks

Bento #16

This is today's snack, consists of potato sprinkle with nori flakes, edamame and strawberries.

Bento #15

Prepared this for J's lunch after his weekly class yesterday. The lunch consists of yellow mini tomato, Hello Kitty fishcake and steam egg with mushroom. Underneath the steam egg is plain rice with nori flakes as topping. The yellow tomato is very sweet, crunchy and juicy, I got it from cold storage. They labelled it as yellow mini plume tomato.

Bento #14

Today's snack consist of steam sweet potato, quail eggs and strawberries. I tried to use quail egg mold for today's quail eggs. it's better than the 1st time, slightly more obvious.

Bento #13

We found out that Kids' Kampong at Pasir Ris have Children's Day event today. We brought J and ZY to join in the fun. As the time is near their lunch time, I prepared lunch boxes for them.

J's lunch box consist of plain rice with eel, flora shape carrot, broccoli and strawberries. As ZY is a pasta lover I made animal pasta and hard boiled egg and grapes for her. I forgot to take pic of ZY's lunch.

Bento #12

Today's snack consist of grapes, potato sprinkle with parmesan cheese and sweet corn. I used monkey food pick for today's snack as this week's theme in class is 'Monkey'. I don't have enough time to try make a monkey for today's snack. Maybe will try wake up early the next time. I put in a set of fork and spoon, thinking that J might want to use if for his corns or potato.

Bento #11

I prepared this today for J as lunch after his weekly enrichment class. He likes eel so hubby bought this when he saw it in supermarket. We usually have when I made sushi as dinner. It's an easy to prepare meal for me as I only need to prepare the sushi rice and steam the eel.


I added pumpkin flakes which I got from Isetan some time ago to the uncooked rice and cooked together till the rice is ready. I steamed the eel and placed it on top of the cooked rice. I also prepared grapes in the side dishes containers. I used food picks to make the grapes look like balloons, rings, umbrellas and flowers. Niece also attracted to them, she arranged the food picks nicely on the table after she finished the grapes.


I used this mini bento set from Tiger as it can keep the rice warm with the thermal cup container. I like this bento set very much so decided to get a set. There're many designs for similar bento set in market. Hubby find this bento set is good and has an insulated carrier so decided to bring this bento set when we going to Hokkaido next month. We can use this to pack food for J, in case he gets hungry when we're on the road.

Bento #10

I bought a pack of ravioli last week, so made some as today's snack. The ravioli consists of mushroom and cheese as the filings. I don't know if J would like the ravioli or not, so I also prepared animal pasta with the ravioli. I added margarine and parmesan cheese to the ravioli and pasta after cooked. We've finished most of the fruits so did not pack any fruit for today's snack.

Today's snack: mushroom and cheese ravioli and edamame.
I packed the food in this shinkansen lunch box with the newly bought bento strap from Daiso. This lunch box does not comes with a bento strap as it comes with a thermal bag and ice pack instead.

Bento #9

I tried use sliced cheese to make the lion for today's snack. I packed strawberries, underneath the lion is quail egg and potato with mayonnaise. I used mini potato instead of those usual size potato, to lessen wastage.

Bento #8

This week theme in J's sch is Lion. I tried to make a lion with pancake and cheese but I don't know how to make the face, ended up looks more like a pig face. To match with the theme I used a lion food pick for the blueberries.

Today's snack consists of blueberries, sweet corn and pumpkin pancake.

Bento #7

We decided to visit our grandma at the last minute so made this for J & ZY. Dont have time to defrost other food, so only prepared eggs with pasta. I tried to use ice cream shape and similar to a mooncake shape egg molds for the hard boiled egg. But I don't have enough time to mold the eggs so the shapes are not obvious. I manage to use some of the new items my hubby got from Taiwan.

I used a 2-tier Hello Kitty lunch box for today's dinner.

Each child gets a tier so both have the same food, hard boiled eggs and Mickey Mouse pasta. I stirred in some margarine to the pasta before I pack them into the lunch box. The yellow and orange containers are japanese mayonnaise for the hard boiled eggs, rabbit furikake bottle contains parmesan cheese for the pasta.

Bento #6

I used the animals cutters hubby got from Taiwan to make koala bear and giraffe corn bread. I buttered the bread and put in sliced cheese for the bread. I made use of pancake and sliced cheese to create an elephant as part of the deco for today's snack box. I don't have enough space for the quail eggs in the box so try to squeeze them in between the food. As no elephant food pick or fork is used for today's snack, I used an elephant printed divider. Just want something to match this week's theme in school. I got some pomelo in the silicon cup for today's fruit.

Bento #5

Today's snack is strawberries, grapes and sweet potato. I tried to make elephants with egg white and egg yolk, I secure the ears, eyes and truck with cream cheese. Dont know if it still look like this after transportation.

This week's theme in school is elephant so I tried to make elephants and used elephant food pick and fork.

Bento #4

I packed transportation theme almond jelly in the silicon cup, apple sausages and mickey mouse pasta in the Thomas & friends lunch box. I buttered the pasta after cooked and sprinkle furikake.

Jelly

I made these for J's upcoming snack, so that I have something else to alternate with fruits. I got those pre-mix almond jelly powder. i prefer to use silicon jelly as the jelly will be easy to remove from the molds. The blue and pink 4 in 1 molds are from Daiso which I got recently. I like the size of the molds as it give me bite sizes jelly.

Bento #3

Today's snack consist of the usual fruit grapes, edamame and quail egg. I tried the quail egg mold for a smiley face quail egg but unsuccessful. I left the cooked quail egg in the pot for too long and it became not hot enough to be molded.

Bento #2

This Thomas lunch box is bought by hubby when he went Taiwan. It's actually a 2-tier lunch box but I only used one tier for today's snack. It has a separators that can be removed, the other tier has no separation. What I like about this lunch box is the lid is secure, need no elastic band to secure it. Hubby said the lunch box is on offer when he bought, it's only S$5 for a 2-tier Thomas & Friends lunch box.

I used a small star cookie cutter and made star multi-grain bread with cream cheese. I used star sprinkle to decorate the bread. I used a octopus weiner for the apple sausage to make it looks like an octopus and pasted seaweed as the eyes. But the octopus lost the eyes during the transportation. As I have a big pack of grapes so will pack grapes often for J's snack bento and it's one of his favourite.

Bento #1

I ran out of titles for my blog entries, so I'm going to title them by numbers from now. Lazy to go back to previous posts to start numbering.

This is snack bento I prepared for J this morning. He's starting a new class this term and have to prepare snacks for him for the new class.
I used the food picks that made the grapes look like ring, balloon and flower. Multi grain bread with cheese. They are cut into shapes and print of vehicles.

Great Thanks to Bento Pet

Great thanks to Bento Pet who got these for me from Malaysia, I love them all. Bento Pet and her friend Emily organsied a Bento Party in Malaysia and asked me to get some bento items for her from Daiso. She gave me these as gift, so nice of her.


The items shown are 2 sets of rabbit and bear egg molds and 2 sets of fish and car egg molds. Furikake in cute bottles; smiley faces punchers; weiners. Underneath the items are Lock & Lock chopping board sheet.

Knowing that my sister in law is a egg mold lover, she included 2 sets of egg molds each, isn't it sweet of her.