Bento

New Items from Daiso

2010-05-30T19:54:00.004+08:00

It has been quite some time since I bought bento accessories from Daiso as they do not have much new interesting items. These 2 days managed to get some new things from them.

Animal design sauce containers, Transportation design sauce containers and sauce pen

Spoon and forks with heart shaped design, hearts food picks, animals food picks, transportation food picks.

Bento #88

2010-05-25T14:49:00.003+08:00

It has been quite some time since I made ham sandwich for Justin. Today I made small bites ham sandwich for him. He asked why the bread has no pictures. Guess I have to 'beautify' the sandwich the next time.

The snack consists of ham sandwich and watermelon.

Bento #87

2010-05-10T20:35:00.002+08:00

Today's snack consist of strawberry jam sandwich, goldfish cheese biscuits, strawberries.

Justin accidentally dropped the sandwich in the car when he was adjusting his position to sit properly. He was very sad to see the sandwich on the floor. Fortunately, I have the biscuits to cheer him up.

Bento #86

2010-04-24T18:57:00.003+08:00

Nowadays I made sandwich on every Saturdays. It's the easiest and fastest food to make as snack for Justin before we go out. So far no complains from him. Today I made sugarbunnies and cats with different faces.

The snack consists of strawberry jam sandwich and almond jelly.

Bento #85

2010-04-24T18:52:00.003+08:00

J having his field trip on Friday afternoon. I prepared these for J before we left for his field trip. The school do provided snack so the lunch box is for him to have it on the way home.

The lunch box consist almond jelly, pasta, parmesan cheese in the bear container, carrots. I told J I made the carrots into 'satay'.

Bento #84

2010-04-17T17:29:00.003+08:00

J learning about transportation in school this week, so made use of the Tomica car cutter to make bite-size sandwich for him.

Snack consist of papaya and strawberry jam sandwich.

Close up of the sandwich

Bento #83

2010-04-15T23:17:00.003+08:00

Made this for J before I fetch him from school today. Made use of the new cutters I bought. I used the dog cutter from the Animal Cutters with Faces. I gave the 'dogs' different facial expressions.

Today's snack consist of watermelon, papaya and strawberry sandwich

New Items from J-Mama & Baby

2010-04-15T23:12:00.003+08:00

Received my items bought from J-Mama & Baby today. These are what I got from her this time.

Animal seaweed punchers, Cutters with Stamps, Animal Cutters with Faces

Bento #82

2010-04-11T01:11:00.004+08:00

Made these for J yesterday morning, pan fried quail eggs, strawberry jam sandwich and grapes. He requested for Thomas sandwich after I did it last week, this time I made him heart shape sandwich.

Bento #81

2010-04-07T18:17:00.003+08:00

Tried 'Bird Eye' frozen corn for the 1st time, it tasted very nice. J & RY likes it very much and asked for more corn.

Today's snack consist of steamed corn, strawberries and papaya.

Hot Cakes

2010-04-06T00:30:00.004+08:00

Recently bought a pack of hot cake pre mix from Japanese food section at NTUC. Tried to make hot cake with the silicon moulds I got from 100 Yen shop at KL last month. The pre mix makes nice hot cake and the silicon moulds makes pretty hot cakes. Quite happy with the end result.

In case you are wondering what kind of premix I'm using, I just took a pic of it.

Bento #80

2010-04-03T23:52:00.005+08:00

Made J sandwich before we left for his enrichment classes this morning. I made use of Thomas cookie cutter with stamp for his sandwich. I 'print' the image onto 1 bread, spread jam on another bread, place the bread with image on top and cut with the cookie cutter. I turned the cutter upsidedown and sealed the sides of the bread. My boy likes today's sandwich and happy to see Thomas 'smiling' at him when he opened up the box.

Today's snack consist of strawberry jam sandwich and strawberries.

Bento #79

2010-04-01T16:46:00.003+08:00

Prepared these for J as his after school snack. I made use of the new silicon quail egg mould to pan fry the quail eggs into flower and heart shape, quite happy with the end result. I made use of an alphabet cutter to 'print' letter 'Y' onto the sausage.

Bento #78

2010-03-31T16:24:00.003+08:00

I made ham sandwich for J, using a letter 'Y' cutter to decorate the sandwich as he's learning letter 'Y' this week. The snack consist of ham sandwich and watermelon.

New Items

2010-03-31T16:18:00.003+08:00

Received new things that I ordered from Jmamababy today.

Family of 3 lion boxes.

The 3 round things are alphabet cutters, animal forks, cute faces food picks, silicon quail egg mould.

Bento #77

2010-03-25T18:14:00.003+08:00

Used a bread cutter and to ham sandwich for J. Prepared strawberries and sandwich for him as afterschool snack.

100 Yen Shop at KL

2010-03-16T23:45:00.003+08:00

We just came back from KL yesterday. Before going to KL, I got to know 100 Yen shop addresses from other bloggers. We manage to visit 1 and went on a shopping spree at the shop.

J also went on a shopping spree. These are chosen by him.

Bento #76

2010-03-06T10:23:00.004+08:00

Made J cheese sausage and strawberries for today's snack. Made use of the sausage cutter and picks I received recently to make tulips with the sausage. I packed them in the Mickey Mouse lunch box I bought few weeks ago.

Bento #75

2010-02-27T17:03:00.004+08:00

As usual, I made snack for J this morning before he left for his weekend classes. I made use of the new sausage cutters I received yesterday to make patterns for the sausages.

Today's snack is strawberry jam sandwiches, quail eggs and cheese sausages.

Close up of the quail eggs and sausages.

Just Arrived

2010-02-25T17:25:00.003+08:00

Bought these online from Jmamababy last week and received them by mail today. My boy was also happy to see the parcel and kept asking me to open it.

The food picks comes with a bus.

Sausage mould and cutters with picks and multi purpose cutters

Lunch Boxes

2010-02-22T16:29:00.004+08:00

Bought these lunch boxes recently from a Hello Kitty shop (the shop is Kai Kai) in Chinatown Point. Supposed to buy only the Hello Kitty lunch box as I saw from the catalogue, the Hello Kitty look much nicer than Mickey Mouse. But when I saw the real thing I like it so much that I got both. The lunch box comes with a bag and small side dish container.

Hello Kitty Lunch box

Interior of the lunch box. The container on the left is the side dish container

Mickey Mouse Lunch box

Interior of the Mickey Mouse lunch box

Bento #74

2010-02-20T07:27:00.004+08:00

Prepared this for J as he has classes today. I hope I'll always have time to make something for him every now and then provided I can wake up early before the children are awake.

Made use of a bread cutter which helps to cut, seal the filing and gives features to the sandwich. I spreaded strawberry jam and used bunny bread cutter to cut out the breads.

The snack consists of strawberries, moulded quail egg and strawberry sandwich.

Bento #73

2010-02-14T23:14:00.002+08:00

Prepared this for J before he went for his weekend class. Made used of the new bread cutter, which makes the bread looks like a chick. The snack consist of ham sandwich and quail eggs.

Bento #72

2010-02-09T16:22:00.002+08:00

Prepared this as snack for J before leaving to fetch him. I made use of the new Anpanman quail egg mould. I like this egg mould as it gives faces on both sides of the eggs and the features is clearly shown.

New Items

2010-02-09T14:41:00.002+08:00

Received new items this morning, I bought these online from a lady who organised bulk purchase in a motherhood forum.

This is J's favourite, he requested for this

Such cutters is my favourite. Can use it to make cute faces

I like this Anpanman egg moulds and cutters.

Bento #71

2010-02-02T16:20:00.005+08:00

Just finished making these, tried using the new bread cutter to make the sandwich filled with cheese hotdog.

Made use of quail egg mould to 'print' pig and bunny on the quail eggs. But the result not too good.

Bread Cutters

2010-02-02T16:17:00.004+08:00

Bought these bread cutters recently and received them today. Was in a hurry so didnt take a good pic.

The bigger cutter can make 4 small sandwiches, the other cutters can make cute sandwiches

Salad

2010-01-29T15:53:00.003+08:00

Hubby made this salad last week. We intend to have salad for dinner on some days, as we're trying to lose weight and be healthy.

The salad consist of baby butterhead lettuce, cheese, cheery tomatos, sandwich ham and crab meat. We have the salad with sesame dressing which we got it from the Japanese food section from supermarket.

Fondue Set

2010-01-29T12:29:00.003+08:00

I bought this fondue set from a Hello Kitty shop in Chinatownpoint. Like it very much when I saw in from a website. It comes with 2 food picks and a tealight.

Bento #70

2010-01-20T15:30:00.002+08:00

Today's snack is similar to yesterday. I made use of pooh bear cutter (http://mycreationbento.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-loots-from-kaikai.html) and seaweed puncher for the ham.

The snack consists of ham, quail eggs and grapes.

Close up of the quail eggs

Bento #69

2010-01-19T16:53:00.003+08:00

Made these as snack for J before I fetch him from school today. I made use of quail egg mould to make faces for the quail eggs and new cutters for the ham.

The snack consists of grapes, blueberries, quail eggs and ham.

Close up of the quail eggs.

Bento #68

2010-01-17T21:35:00.003+08:00

Yesterday J had his weekly classes, so prepared him snack. The snack consist of blueberries, cheese cocktail.

Bento #67

2010-01-17T21:26:00.003+08:00

Prepared this for J as dinner on Friday night. He was not feeling well that day, hope that he'll want to eat the dinner when it's packed in a lunch box. Or at least make him feel better. He was happy to see his 2-tier Mickey Mouse lunch box. I made used of the new cutters I bought recently to cut the cheese into bunny and musical notes.

The dinner consist of rice sprinkle with furikake, cheese as decoration for the rice, stir fry minced meat with mushroom and pumpkin.

Bento #66

2010-01-09T20:12:00.004+08:00

Prepared something light and simple for J this morning. He has art class every Saturday, so made him this sandwich to eat on the way to the class.

I used the Tomica Car sandwich marker for the 2nd time to make sandwich. The first time decoration was a failure, couldnt get the details at all. It's not perfect this time but much better than the 1st time. I spread strawberry jam for the sandwhich and used milo as decoration for the details.

New Items

2010-01-09T19:56:00.006+08:00

Received these cutters yesterday, like the musical notes shape cutters in the assorted cutters and the details of the animal cutters

Bento #65

2010-01-07T18:57:00.004+08:00

I made this for J as his after school snack. This is to be shared among 3 children, my niece, nephew and J. But niece doesnt want, so the 2 boys finished the food in no time.

I packed the food in a 2-tier Thomas lunchbox. The upper tier consist of strawberries and pitted cherries, the lower tier consist of quail eggs and dark soy sauce in the star container.

I used a quail egg cutter to cut the egg into flora looking but find not nicely cut. Any tips?

New Items

2009-12-18T14:59:00.002+08:00

Just bought these recently, animal head forks and multi purpose cutter and stencils. Also bought a set of numbers cutters but didnt manage to take pic of it.

Bento #64

2009-10-27T06:12:00.002+08:00

Prepared peanut butter multigrain sandwich and a pear for hubby as breakfast this morning. I soaked the pear in salt water to prevent the pear from browning before packed it into a small container with pick. I used the cutters that I have to lightly pressed onto the bread to make a 'note' to him.

Sandwich for the Zoo & New Sandwich Maker

2009-10-25T22:28:00.003+08:00

We are going to zoo this morning, so I decided to wake up early this morning to prepare snack for J, ZY and RY after the visit. I bought these sandwich maker from Kai Kai at Chinatown Point yesterday, wanted to make use of the new gadget for the children.

I used the Mickey and Minnie sandwich maker to have cheese sandwich for J and ZY and Mickey strawberry jam sandwich for RY.

I tried using the Tomica Car sandwich maker but the end result turns out not nice. I couldn't sprinkle milo nicely onto the sandwich to get the nice design as shown in the packaging.

Rice Balls Again

2009-10-22T23:01:00.005+08:00

Today made use of the moulds to make rice balls again. This time I wet the moulds after each moulding, find the rice looks better than yesterday. This is part of today's dinner. J's dinner consist of rice (grounded rolled oats added), carrots, mushroom fishballs (in pic), fishcake tofu, cabbage and potato. I dumped the ingredients into a pot and boiled like soup with rolled oats added, tried this for the first time. Well received by J. I let J tried to use the rice mould to shape rice balls, he had fun with it.

Rice Balls

2009-10-22T15:41:00.003+08:00

Made use of this new mould for yesterday's dinner. This is to make the rice into balls. J said the rice look like the balls he can throw.

This is his dinner, consists of mixed grain rice, minced meat with mushroom and broccoli.

Bento #63

2009-10-20T16:13:00.004+08:00

Prepared this as J's dinner last Thursday. I made almond jelly in the afternoon and by the time to pack his lunch box, the jelly is done. His dinner consist of mixed grain rice which is under the minced meat and mushroom, broccoli and almond jelly. The watermelon is his after school snack for J to munch on the way home.

I packed the dinner in a Snoopy bento box with thermal bag, one of my favourite collection.

Bento #62

2009-10-15T14:33:00.002+08:00

J wanted to go over to inlaw's after school to play with his cousins. He asked me to pack his dinner in a lunchbox for him. I prepared 2 lunchboxes for him. The kiwi is for him to snack on after school in the car. He now always want to have something after school, so I'll prepare fruits for him to snack on on the way home.

The dinner consist of edamame, pumpkin, chicken and rice. I added grinded rolled oats and mixed grains to the rice, so look brownish.

I packed the dinner in a 2-tier Thomas lunch box which was used in Bento #61

Bento #61

2009-09-20T10:07:00.002+08:00

I made used of the sandwich maker which I got from Taiwan recently to prepare today's breakfast. I can't make the sandwich looks neat at the side, don't know if the bread is a bit small for the maker.

Sandwich maker

Fragrant pear, papaya and jam with multigrain bread

I used the spork so it's easier to eat the papaya. The papaya are too ripe and is a bit mashy. Panda bears food picks for the pears.

I packed the breakfast in this 2 tier lunch box for J. His favourite character is Thomas.

Loots from Taiwan - Xiao Li Tang

2009-09-20T09:56:00.003+08:00

We went to Xiao Li Tang in Taipei in the morning before we left, these are our last minute shopping.

Hello Kitty lunch box with bag; plastic containers with lids; spoon & fork; stirrers

Bath Towels

Thermal Bags

Thomas towel, water bottle and 2 tier lunch box

Loots from Taiwan - Tailung Hands

2009-09-20T09:47:00.002+08:00

We came back from Taiwan last week. Managed to get these from Tailung Hands.

Spork (can be used as a spoon or fork, I like this very much. I find it's convenient to have in lunch boxes), Panda food pick, musical food picks, forks

Rice moulds with spoon (make into rice balls); a set of bottles, silicon dividers, and flower rice mould; duck furkika bottle; sauce bottles; tomato and egg headed bottles; panda sandwich maker; quail egg cutters.

Class Party II - Party Food

2009-09-03T09:53:00.003+08:00

This is the party food I prepared for my boy to bring to school to share with his friends. I usually bake small cakes for them. This time I made this cornflakes in mini cups for them. I bought some shapes sprinkles quite some time ago but didnt make use of it. This time I used it in the cornflakes to make it look more interesting.

Class Party

2009-09-02T00:34:00.005+08:00

J has class party every month. The children are suppose to bring along a plate of party food to share with their friends. Beside preparing the party food, I will usually also bake cookies for the children to bring home. I find that it's more like having a party with a goodie bag. Just finished baking these cookies for Thursday's party. I'll usually bake the cookies few days beforehand and then prepare the party food on the day before the party.

I usually bake bite size cookies. This time I decided to use a bigger cutter and made used of the food markers I bought recently to decorate the cookies.

I packed them into cookie bags for each child. Hope the children will like these cookies.

Bento #60

2009-08-27T14:43:00.002+08:00

I made almond jelly about 2 weeks ago with the jelly moulds that I have bought but yet to use. I packed the jelly and grapes as after school snack for J. He finished the snack in no time.

Bento #59

2009-08-14T12:27:00.002+08:00

I always pack some fruits for J after his school. Yesterday, I packed kiwi and grapes in this 2-tier lunch box.

Bento #58

2009-08-13T00:24:00.007+08:00

I prepared strawberries and small buns for J. This is his current favourite bun. I packed the lunch box into a drawstring lunch box which I got from Daiso last year in Hokkaido.

Bento #57

2009-08-12T15:32:00.002+08:00

I did this as breakfast for my hubby last Friday. It has been quite some time since I made him breakfast. I delibrately pack in more grapes as he seldom eat fruits.

Bento #56

2009-08-11T14:10:00.002+08:00

This lunchbox is done on 14 April. Pasta with parmesan cheese and blanch broccoli. I packed them into this 2 tier mickey mouse lunch box and crocodile samsonite bag. The size of the bag is just nice for this lunch box and cutlery.

Bento #55

2009-08-11T14:07:00.002+08:00

This bento is done on 9 April for J to have it after his class. Brown rice and disney pasta with parmesan cheese and steam carrot sticks.

Bento #54

2009-04-06T22:10:00.003+08:00

Have not been taking pictures of the food I prepared as it's usually simple ones like this. Fruits and cheerios.

J seems to eat a lot during snack time in sch, he doesn't really feel hungry after school. So I nowadays will only prepare light snack for him.

Baked 'Fried' Chicken

2009-03-19T09:04:00.003+08:00

I tried a recipe I read from Kitchen Capers forum. It used oven to bake chicken but gives fried chicken texture. It's easy to do and nice to eat and don't feel so guilty since no oil is used.

Bento #53

2009-03-19T08:59:00.001+08:00

This is done in early March. Carrots, pasta with parmesan cheese and blueberry. J's favourite vegetable is carrot and broccoli but must have tartar sauce for the broccoli. So these are the vegetables I usually packed into his lunch box.

Bento #52

2009-03-19T08:55:00.002+08:00

I nowadays have problem updating my blog cos my current laptop seems to have problem. My hubby said the laptop might crash anything. haiz......

This is done in early March. Blueberry and broccoli. I packed tartar sauce in the small blue container. I also pack a blue fork to match the container n lunch.

Sponge Cakes

2009-02-27T15:54:00.003+08:00

I attended a cake baking workshop last Sunday by Gina, Kitchen Capers. Tried to do what I've learnt. But I modified the recipe. As I have remaining self raising flour so I made used of self raising flour instead of plain flour in Gina's recipe, also tried to use shredded cheddar cheese. But I think I added too little cheese, cant really taste the cheese in the cake but the texture is very soft. I made used of my cute silicon moulds for the cakes.

Hello Kitty sponge cake

Mickey Mouse and Tomica Car sponge cake

I poured the remaining batter into a loaf pan to bake this

Bento #51

2009-02-27T15:49:00.002+08:00

I made this on Wednesday. It has been a long time since I made tortillas again. I melted shredded cheddar cheese as the filings, blanch broccoli and prepared tartar sauce in the pooh container for the broccoli.

Mickey Mouse

2009-02-25T15:22:00.001+08:00

Recently I got these from the Hello Kitty shop in Chinatown point. Still waiting for the rest of the items I ordered to arrive.

Bento #50

2009-02-25T15:19:00.002+08:00

This was done last Friday. Pasta with margarine and parmesan cheese, quail eggs and pear.

I think the pear is from Australia, it's a mini pear. Size is small and it's very sweet and juicy. This is the 1st time I tried this pear, will get it again.

Bento #49

2009-02-25T15:15:00.001+08:00

This lunch box is done on last Thursday. Brown rice pasta mixed with margarine and parmesan cheese, blanched broccoli, tartar sauce in pooh container.

I packed them in this Thomas lunch box. It's a birthday present to J from sister-in-law. It comes with a thermal lunch bag and water bottle.

Bento #48

2009-02-25T15:08:00.003+08:00

This was done last Monday. I packed mixed of dinosaur pasta and brown rice pasta. The brown rice pasta has shapes of animals and vehicles. I like it as it's brown rice so healthier than normal pasta. I also prepared carrots and cauliflower in the lunch box.

The nowadays lunch boxes / snack boxes become part of J's dinner. He will always want to have sometime for him after school, must have a lunch box for him. If not, he'll be disappointed.

Bento #47

2009-02-25T15:03:00.002+08:00

This was done about 2 weeks ago. The snack box consist of dinosaur pasta mixed with margarine and parmesan cheese, blanched broccoli. I packed tartar sauce for the broccoli in the pooh container.

Bento #46

2009-01-30T16:22:00.002+08:00

Made this for J's snack today. Tried making baked bread cup for the first time. I added in cooked fish and shredded cheddar as toppings. I also packed in the mango flavoured fish head nian gao and grapes. After I packed the food then I realised today's snack box is very yellow looking.

Past few days he only had fruits as his after school snack so didnt take pic of it.

Bento #45

2009-01-28T20:37:00.003+08:00

As we were rushing for time so only manage to make simple lunchbox for J & ZY on the 1st day of Chinese New Year. Both have the same food, only the shape of the nian gao is different.

I prepared blueberries, nian gao, quail egg, cheese sausage and pasta. I packed parmesan cheese in the furikake bottles.

Nian Gao

2009-01-22T16:37:00.006+08:00

I went to learn making nian gao from Gina, at Kitchen Capers. So made use of what I learnt for this year's Chinese New Year.

I bought 2 sizes of boxes to pack the nian gao as gifts for relatives and friends. This is the small box. Forgot to paste the 'fu' sticker in the center of the box before I take pic.

This is the larger box. Somehow the colors look lighter in pic, the actual thing look brighter colors.

Bento #44

2009-01-22T14:50:00.001+08:00

This is J's after school snack for yesterday. Strawberries, bear nian gao, broccoli and potato under the broccoli. The small container consists of tartar sauce for the vegetables.

Bento #43

2009-01-20T20:40:00.002+08:00

This is J's after school snack for today. Blueberry and tortillas with shredded cheddar cheese.

I cut a piece of tortillas in to halves, place half piece onto a nonstick pan and sprinkle shredded cheddar cheese and heat over medium. I cover the pan so the cheese will melt faster. When most of the cheese melted, I placed another piece of tortillas on top of the cheese and pan fry both side. When it's ready I use a scissors to cut into smaller pieces so can fit into the lunch box.

Bento #42

2009-01-20T20:34:00.002+08:00

This is J's after school snack on Monday. Dinosaur pasta with margarine and parmesan cheese, quail egg and blueberry.

Bento #40 & Bento #41

2009-01-18T07:30:00.002+08:00

Made these for J and ZY on last Friday. Both of them are pasta lovers, so SH & me brought lots of pasta for them. This dinosaur pasta is from 3lilangels, as she know I like to get cute pasta for J. Sweet of 3lilangels to get extra pack of pasta for SH too.

Both have the same food except J has more carrots as he's a carrot lover. He even finished up ZY's carrots as she did want to eat it.

Bento #38 & Bento #39

2009-01-18T07:18:00.006+08:00

Made these for J & ZY as their after school snacks last Thursday. Told SH that I going to prepare vegetables lunch box for J, SH told me to do one for ZY as well. ZY is not a veg eater, so usually she'll not eat any veg at all. But recently ZY willing to eat veg only if she's involve in the preparation.

The lunch box at the top is for J, grapes, potato and broccoli, mayonnaise is provided in the mayo case.
The bottom lunch box is for ZY, the Hello Kitty bottle contained parmesan cheese, she's a cheese lover.

As usual J finished everything in the lunch box, ZY finished the fruits but left the veg intact.

Bento #37

2009-01-14T12:10:00.002+08:00

Made these for J & ZY today. They seem hungry after school so decided to make them lunch boxes as their after school snack. Both have the same food.

Mixture of rooster shaped pasta and dinosaur shaped pasta mixed with margarine and powdered parmesan cheese; grapes as the fruit of the day.

Bento #36

2009-01-13T04:34:00.003+08:00

This lunch box is made yesterday. The lunch box consist of steam sweet corn, cheese sausage, grapes and peanut butter sandwich.

I used the elephant and dolphin food picks to beautify the sausage, so not to look so boring. Finally have grapes in fridge yesterday, so pack them into the lunchbox, made use of food picks to make it look like balloon and flower. I used a cookie cutter and cut out a bunny shape for the bread and used seaweed puncher to give the bread facial expression.

Bento #35

2009-01-12T10:42:00.004+08:00

Made this for J last Friday as his after school snack. J now wants me to prepare him lunch box even though his school provided snack. The lunch box now becomes his after school snack.

Fishballs and carrots with ducks food picks. Rooster shaped pasta with parmesan cheese

Bento #34

2009-01-08T09:19:00.005+08:00

Made this for J as his after school snack yesterday. On the 1st day of school, he asked if I cook anything for him to bring to school, so decided to make something for him on the 2nd day.

We got a small pack of rooster shape pasta from Hokkaido last year. The pasta suits him best as his horoscope is rooster :) His lunchbox consists of pasta, quail eggs and carrot sticks. The Hello Kitty container is parmesan cheese.

I used the lunchbox 3lilangels got for me from a 100 yen shop in KL.

Some Things from 3lilangels

2008-12-27T15:48:00.004+08:00

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

2008-12-15T14:39:00.003+08:00

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

2008-12-14T16:40:00.003+08:00

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

2008-12-09T10:18:00.005+08:00

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

2008-11-28T10:05:00.002+08:00

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

2008-11-28T09:54:00.003+08:00

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

2008-11-23T19:17:00.005+08:00

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

2008-11-21T16:07:00.002+08:00

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

2008-11-20T18:39:00.001+08:00

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

2008-11-19T20:02:00.002+08:00

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

2008-11-16T08:00:00.007+08:00

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

2008-11-12T18:55:00.004+08:00

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

2008-11-10T15:26:00.005+08:00

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

2008-11-05T12:28:00.003+08:00

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

2008-11-03T13:23:00.004+08:00

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

2008-10-31T17:00:00.003+08:00

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

2008-10-29T12:19:00.004+08:00

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

2008-10-24T13:19:00.003+08:00

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

2008-10-20T14:04:00.003+08:00

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

2008-10-17T13:25:00.005+08:00

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

2008-10-15T15:40:00.003+08:00

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

2008-10-06T13:36:00.003+08:00

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

Bento #15

2008-10-06T13:28:00.006+08:00

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.