Bento Fun #218 – Crazy Jack O’ Lanterns
Happy Friday everyone! 
This week has been a crazy week for me! Has been busy checking out all the schools and properties around the suburbs we wanted to settle down in so it was a hell of a job. It is not easy since prices of properties are so high in Australia… oops! There you go… yeah, now you know we are moving down under! 
You can see now my head grew double in size with all the information over load! I sent out so many emails to so many agents but sadly, only a few replied me. Maybe due to the reason I am not there yet so they don’t take me seriously? I don’t know… or could it be they are damn busy (with Halloween) that they don’t wanna give me a reply! Boo!!! Whatever it is, I will continue to jam their mailboxes! 
Today I managed to make a Halloween theme bento after procrastinating for so long! Each time I wanted to do, there are always somethings that will crop up so I will delay it and wait for another opportunity… and since Halloween is just 2 days away, I have better do it!
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Made a very simple one with two crazy looking Jack O Lanterns using steamed sweet potatoes as the main characters. Oh yeah, I finally bought the Gold Fish Bento Box from Bento & Co which were really kawaii!!!!
The crazy Jack O Lanterns (eyes are cheese cut out with nori details) sat on steamed rice topped with seaweed and I sprinkled some bone sprinkles which I found in the baking supplies store I frequent. In the smaller box, there are some pan fried prawns, an egg pocket, broiled broccoli and strawberries. This bento was for me actually… but when Darrius saw it he quickly went to remove the seaweed before I took the photos!!! That was why there were some ‘dents’ on those poor pumpkins…
Oh, if you noticed the BIG Jack O Lantern in the background… it was a GIANT orange my hubby brought back from his office… so instead of painting the pumpkin I did it on the orange…
And here is a photo of my new investment…
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Aren’t they super kawaii???? I paid €15.80 for it (not inclusive of shipping) and the most wonderful part is they are really efficient… it arrived within a week! I absolutely LOURVE it!!!! The small fish is sooo super cute and it came with a small side dish and a bento strap too.
I am adding this to WFLW Week 22. Have you added yours yet?
Ok, that’s all for now. Hope you’ll have a fantastic Trick or Treat night!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Bento Folks!
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Lovely Bento boxes and sweet potatoes!
This box will be very useful for the coming Chinese New Year Bento Theme, dont you think so..aha..
bobo recently posted..Bento No 35 – Itsy – Witchy Spider – Trick or Treat
Hello! Good to ‘read’ you again! We missed you la. Cute 3d pumpkins and box. Florence is right, very appropriate for cny too. Cheers n have a relaxing weekend.
Love the pumpkins’ crossed-eyes! They look so funny. If you celebrate then Happy Halloween for you
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Glad to see update from you! Yeah, the fish is really cute!! Happy Halloween to you and family and have a great weekend!
Happy Friday! Beautiful bento – I love how the pumpkins are 3 dimensional. And the bone-sprinkles are a great addition. Did you cook the sweet potatoes and then scoop out the insides to make the ball-shape for the pumpkin? Hard to believe that October will be over tomorrow.
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your sweet potato pumpkins look super cute!
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[...] The idea for using sweet potato balls for the jack-o’lanterns came from Bento Fun, who did a great box with “Crazy Jack O’Lanterns” the other day. Much more elaborate than mine, but that element seemed do-able, and worked so [...]
wow thats sweet potato? you did such a great job! Love the eyes! haha
Loooovvvveeeee the crazy jack o lanterns! specially the eyes, it always make me smile every time i look at it
Loving the jacks made from sweet potatoes..so creative and yes, I have been eye balling that box too…so jealous!
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It’s a real great idea about what you did to make those cute and funny jack o’lanterns
. Love to see your boxes too, they look so cool 
Haha…cute jack o’lantern. Love the fish boxes too…they are soooo nice.
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Hello ,, love your site ,,, moving here in Oz….. make sure to bring your Bento stuff,, its hard to find stuff here ,, I just started doing Bento and I have to order most of my stuff online in US …
Which state are you going to ???? You will love it here ,,
What great little jack-o-lanterns! Great idea to use the sweet potatoes.
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Wow! I love the zany cute feel of your jack o’ lanterns–they made me smile! Charming bento….I’ll miss all the great Halloween themed creations!
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Australia?!? That’s so exciting!!! Yay! I hope you find a great place really soon! I think that is the biggest orange I have ever seen, lol! The fishy bentos are super cute
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What a great and delicious bento! I love your new bentobox – I have the same one, too!
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I think I first saw it at your blog or maybe others… can’t remember and I told myself I gotta get one too!
Nice Jack O Lanterns. How did you mould them from the mashed sweet potatoes? The fish bento box is nice, but wow, it’s darn expensive eh?
I used the plastic wrap… just like molding rice… then press some lines to make
it look like pumpkin… heheheh simple eh?
Yeah, kinda expensive but too cute to resist lor!
yes ! i love the pumpkin character so much. it’s a brilliant idea.
i never thought for making sweet potatoes in cute shape like that. love it.
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Thanks bunda!
You can use other soft ingredients too!