bento 187 – just use cute picks!

finally, a rice bento for my firstborn who are not thrill with cute charaben anymore. in the box – egg fried rice, seaweed chicken and tomato popcorn chicken.  i can’t resist not poking a few cute picks on it. lol !  

bento 168 – love is everywhere

more love theme bentos prepared and eaten last week. my gal wanted sammies and hers are in pink lunch boxes. can you spot the owl? hoot hoot!! it’s cut from a rectangle cube of fish tofu.

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 162 – fishball & sausage teddy

this was last friday’s bento. a fishball and sausage combo, made into a simple teddy. s requested for his usual fried rice, with egg. as usual i flavoured it with ‘abc indonesian’ /soya sweet sauce and sesame oil. no bento for k as she skipped school for her routine eye check-up. to make teddy, i slit the fishball and inserted [...]

bento 89 – happy and healthy

my sis and i made six impromptu lunch bentos yesterday. here are some photos of them. i didnt have my bento gadgets with me so we made do with a hole puncher. that is why many of  the bears and bunnies eyes are closed. haha.. after this, i think the smiley and eye punchers are great inventions for bentoist! even though they are [...]

bento 69 – blissful garden

i spent the morning preparing this bento. i had wanted to do this the night before… but i fell asleep on the sofa while watching ?,  i cant even remember the tv program! haha..  this is a special bento, the most challenging for me to date. i am sending this to hapa bento who is hosting the contest jointly [...]

bento 59 – little boy says ‘ta dah’

Today’s new bento stuff/gear, ‘bony’ food picks used here as hands. Luv it! the boy says, ta dah! I cooked fried rice and egg with a dash of sesame oil, salt and light soya sauce. Shared it with S. K ‘s was kaya and butter bread, and some coloured easter eggs as snacks. My side dishes [...]

bento 52 – more bunnies

In keeping with the Easter theme, here’s more bunnies. S’s bunny was cut from fishballs and k’s from cheese. Today ‘s bento was quick and simple.

bento 24 – gingerbread man

S wanted rice today. Checked fridge and found a quarter bowl of yesterday’s leftover. So fried rice and added the usual fish balls and quail eggs. I split the egg yolk and fried them separately to get 2 colours, yellow and white. I wanted to cut 2 Teddy bears but found out later it would [...]

bento #15

I thought i’ll save time if i prepared the bread the night before. But it turned out i spent much more time, by taking my time to prepare. I started after the kids are in bed around 10:30pm. I finished at around 1, in the morning! Well, I did a lot more than just cutting [...]