bento 186 – sweetie girl bun

Prepared this as an after school snack for my daughter. in the box – hot cross bun, mini sausages, and grapes. hope she will be pleasantly surprise to find this besides the usual prepackaged biscuits or cakes. to make girl’s face – i used a mini scissors to cut hair outline and peel away the [...]

Bento 185 – bear choco banana bread

I love choco banana cake so thought choco banana bread should be nice too. Made this simple bear for k’s breakfast this morning. ; Sunshine choco bread, banana slices and grapes for eyes and nose. Move the grapes around to get the different expressions and faces. Happy bento-ing!!

bento 183 – more cute sammies

after a long hiatus, i am back with 3 types of cut-out sammies. one set for my daughter, one for J’s daughter and one for M’s son. a quick cut-out of bread and kaya spread.  till the next post, have a happy mid-week! next post -  look out for my first ever version of angry birds sammies.

bento 175 and more

this post is about two weeks overdue, sorry about that!  my poor blog has been a bit neglected lately.  i am still making bentos for the kids though not as many as before. i am not stressing myself to daily bento but as and when time permits, or when i have some inspirations to make one.  here [...]

bento 172 – doraemon and girl in bear suit

brown xiao ding dang (doraemon in chinese) came to mind while i was slicing a fish ball meant for the girl in bear suit. this is my second doraemon. i used a red ball food pick as its nose. see my first  doraemon here. i forgot about the nose then. cute girl in bear suit for my girl. tip: [...]

bento 170 – moo moo and ..black eyes

this week’s  speedy bentos were prepared with mini buns as main course. this was my main ‘ingredient’. mini bread/burger buns from gardenia. ta dah! it became a cow ( well, that’s what i had in mind while removing the crust).  some of you probably see an oink oink here. =) added nori and egg sheet for face details, [...]

bento 167 – <3 love is in the air

Happy Valentine’s day! I’ve started making valentine’s bentos last week. here are some photos of the ‘nicer’ ones. =) this was s’s . fried rice with fish tofu and mini tomagoyaki. he insisted that i removed the red ‘love’ sprinkles .  i guessed boys at his age dont like lovey dovey stuff and girls!  haha..  k’s, butter sammie with fish [...]

bento 166 – crabby and mouse

gong xi fa cai to all who are celebrating the lunar chinese new year!  i am still in a chinese new year mood… and just remembered that valentine’s day is just around the corner. time to make those lovey dovey heart shaped bentos. i know my little gal will like this theme. my apologies for the lack of postings recently. i [...]

bento 164 – bunny and hello kitty

an express snack bento – butter and meat floss sammies with boiled cocktail sausages and quail eggs.  kiwi slices as fruit of the day! s’s bunny sandwich  and bear clown quail eggs. k’s hello kitty angel and flower sandwich. (k saw a sun here!) i pinned the sausages with ramen stick. i will be posting [...]

bento 163 – french toasts balls

i am quite pleased with k’s simple snack’s bento =). it’s french toast onigiri made to resemble a cute doggy (k said it’s a bear).  this is k’s woof woof french toast. (update: added this to shannon’s what’s for lunch. have you added yours?) i did s’s bento first. only piggy came to mind, a tried and tested, i.e . repeated [...]