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 158 – moo or baa…

this bento was prepared for a dear friend over the weekend. a cow charaben for J as i know she likes (or used to like) moo moo stuff, but she saw a lamb here. what did you see? in any case, this shall be a lamb that moos… =P in the main bento box, japanese rice onigiri (not exactly a rice ball, [...]

bento 156 – french toast onigiris

both kids had school excursions. s went to a pinochio play and k visited a police station. she asked for allowance and didnt want a bento. =( this was s special request. 2 pieces of french toast, made into bread ball/onigiri with cling wrap. as i didnt cut away the bed crust this time, the onigiris shape weren’t [...]

bento 146 – a pink ribbon and an elephant

october is the ‘pink ribbon’ month! kudos to so many bento bloggers and friends who participated in bento blog’s pink october bento theme to raise awareness of breast cancer.  i was so inspired by all the lovely bentos and posts that i want to participate in the event too. this is my simple pink ribbon bento prepared [...]

Bento 145 – pikachu and busy bee

yesterday’s bento – steamed chicken nuggets, cheese fish cake, mini cheese nutella sandwich and grapes. s’s pikachu was cut with an oval cutter. k’s busy bee, also cut with an oval cutter.  another super fast and simple snacks. ever heard of the chinese phrase, kill 2 birds with one stone? in this case, i ”kill” two [...]

Bento 144 – ‘teardrop’ Catty

bento of the day - chicken sausage and butter sammies. s’s was simply two pieces of butter spread bread, cut into half with sausage in between. took care of that in less than a minute. was in a little rush so decided not to take any picture. this was k’s sealed chicken sausage sandwich. I spent [...]

bento 141 – simple …

this is an old post.   my kids helped baked some dark chocolate muffins (premix) sometime last week. both cooperated and did an awesome job reading the recipe instruction, measuring, mixing, arranging and filling the muffin cups.  they had a great time and i was happy to stand aside to supervise. =) they had muffins for snack the next day.  i ’decorated’ the plain dark [...]

bento 136 – koala and sausage mouse

it’s been a while …   i was either too busy enjoying late nights watching tv or sleeping early.  there are so many back log bentos to post !  apart from the usual morning bentos, i had a small bento ‘workshop’ with a few of my colleagues (their bentos were awesome, you’ll be surprised that they did it for [...]

bento 135 – bear cutter series no 6 and charlie

i am almost half way through this bear cutter series.  here is animal nos 6 – panda. one of the easiest to make too. just add nori facial details and it is done. s asked for noodle this morning.  i added egg as a side dish. cooked the egg white and yolk separately so i can use [...]