Bento Fun

My baby is turning 2 next month! Can’t believe how time flies. In just a blink of the eye, she is already a very independent toddler. She can do most things by herself except for the toilet part.

She is into music as she loves to dance. Her favourite show is Hi5 where there are constantly songs and dance in each episode. She can even remember some of the dance motions and steps!

Seeing her liking music so much has prompted me to consider getting her some simple musical instruments for her to play. I am tempted to get the plastic trumpet from musicians friend for her but worried she might kept blowing at night so have to ditch the thought. Maybe getting a small piano would be a better idea.

Was supposed to bake some breads yesterday but was too lazy so can’t think of anything to put into the kids lunch boxes. Remembering I have some fish cocktails in the freezer, some ideas came along… yes, the thought of those cute Ooglies came flushing back!

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I was running so did not have time to cut the cocktails sausages into shapes so just used them as they are. Just have to dress them up with some cheese eyes and they are good to go! heheh And since there were no carbohydrate, I added a pear onigiri mixed with some furikaki.

The kids polished off everything except the lettuce…

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Darrius even told me that all his teachers were excited to see his lunch box everyday as they were expecting to see something fun!

How was your Valentine’s Day celebration? It is just another day for us here as the hubby is not the romantic sort

However, that does not mean I can’t be all lovey dovey! I made these for Darrius’s lunch box and he was so happy he finished everything!

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These beary buns are filled with fish cocktails which is a hit with the kids. Glennedine did not have class so I only need to prepare one.

And I prepared these little cupcakes for Darrius’s class teachers…

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Hope you had a great Valentine’s Day celebration!

A few weeks ago I stumbled on a Japanese mommy’s blog whom made the cutest character buns. I was so inspired after going through some of her works and thought I should give it a go. The thing is, I have problems shaping the bread dough so gave up many times. However, the cuteness of these buns gave me the courage to try. Started with these cute cat buns… not that perfect but quite encouraging

So, it is time to try making other shapes and I have chosen to do the crocodiles ones which look pretty simple. The only thing was shaping the eyes… what seemingly easy but it was not! It is hard to get the sizes correct!

Anyway, I am pretty happy with the outcome…

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As my girl has classes too I made 2 sets but the items in the boxes are slightly different as Ms Diva don’t like cherry tomatoes >.< A simple kyaraben bento… only need to draw the eyes and the teeth And so, these kick-started my kyaraben journey for this year!

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I have a relatively big pantry but for some reasons I still feel there is not enough space! I have no idea what I stuffed in there but every level is used up.

Then one day, a friend was asking about ideas of how to reorganise her pantry and I decided to take a look at mine and thought I should do the same too! Can’t believe I have so much junks so I cleared out all the expired items (yeah, when they get stuffed really inside or under, they will be forgotten) and sorted them accordingly. I wished I can install the undermount drawer slides so I can have pull out drawers but no such luck. Therefore, I used boxes to group the items.

Anyway, pretty happy with my hard work and now it looks much better than before. At least I can easily find things around.