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.

New Loots from Taiwan

Hubby just came back from Taiwan and manage to take some time after his work to shop for us. He knows I love bento stuff, so managed to get these for me. Most items are from Hands Tailung, it's a shop that is similar to Tokyu Hands in Japan.

These are egg molds: rabbit & bear face. quail egg molds that give quail eggs 6 different facial expressions. The 3 egg molds in a box are sushi, ice cream and konnyaku shape. On the bottom is Hello Kitty egg mold

Top: Animal shaped rice molds, animal shaped cutters and vehicles shaped cutters
Bottom 'Pens' to pour sauce into and 'write' on food, aeroplane shape jelly molds, Winne the Pooh silicon molds.
I was excited to see the rice molds and I like the 'pens' very much but have no idea what kind of sauce to use, have to think about it.

This pic show sauce bottles, various food picks mayo containers, furikake bottle with carrot scoop and food dividers.