Simple ideas to make your lunch box attractive

Last night lil’ Glennedine was fussing the entire night as she kept regurgitate after each feed (can’t remember how many times she woke up!). I don’t know why but I suspected that she was not feeling too well after her 3-month jab yesterday afternoon. She was having mild fever in the evening… so I guessed she was feeling chilly during the night or feeling hot… which I have no idea but I knew she kept kicking her blankie away!

When baby is not sleeping well… what will happen to the mommy?

Having panda eyes lor!

Anyway, it was not entirely the reason why I made this panda bento. It was the spur of the moment that I thought of making it as I was really out of ideas of what to do. I noticed that Darrius will only clean up his bento if I make him cute character bentos (he cleaned up yesterday bento). Since I got some new panda picks which I bought from Bento Craft last week, thus this bento came around.

The panda is a peanut butter with strawberry jam sandwich with details cut out of nori. A medium mandarin orange from the CNY batch, some pretzels hidden under the panda, macadamia nuts, some peanut mix and a gummy heart as treat (I try not to give Darrius sweet stuff too often).

I got this green bento box from 100Yen shop sometime last year but never get around using it as it was stashed away far inside one of my many cupboards. In fact there are still a few boxes which are still nicely packed inside their packaging! Also not forgetting I have a few boxes of cookie cutters which are still brand new!

Ok, that’s all for today. TGIF and happy bento-ing!

Sometimes I do wonder if I should spend my morning rush time to prepare bento for Darrius. He is one weird kid at times. On some days, he will wallop everything I packed for him and on some days the bentos are untouched.

I will normally ask him what did he get from the school during his snack time though it is kind of predictable every week but sometimes the school did messed up the schedule a little. Yesterday Mr. Snail bento was untouched though Darrius loves the Swiss Roll… so he had it for snack after his lunch. He has great appetite out of the blue… o_O

Anyway, I bought a loaf of bread the other day so I have to clear it fast (since I am eating the Swiss Rolls myself most of the time) before it gets moldy…

It has been a while since I use the Pooh bento box and it is one of Darrius’s favorite. This box is small so it is perfect for snack. Today’s bento is Mr. Bear as I remembered I have these round cutters for my cupcake batch of cookie cutters. I have so many of cookie cutters that I really lost touch what I have as they are kept in different boxes stashed away in different parts of my house!

Today’s items are simple stuff of cheese sandwich for the bear, cherry tomatoes and chicken cocktails for the heart and hands for the bear. Deatils for the bear are raisins and Smoke BBQ Cheddar cheese. I just hope Darrius can finish them up…

Happy bento-ing!

Before we left Ipoh on Monday, I went to get some Swiss Rolls which was said to be very delicious according to a few moms I knew who often buy these Swiss Rolls each time they were in Ipoh. However, every time I was in Ipoh, I did not get to buy any as it will slip my mind but I make sure I remember it this time!

With the swirl of these Swiss Rolls, what could be a better idea than using it as the shell of a snail??? So, Darrius gets a Snail bento box this morning!

In the box was a slice of Carrot Cream Cheese Swiss Roll with peanut filling. For the head is a slice of red apple with nori for details and raisins on toothpicks for the tentacles. There are another slice of apple whih I cut into 2, 2 cherry tomatoes and some mixed nuts to fill up the empty space.

For those of you who might be visiting Ipoh, try not to miss these yummylicious Swiss Rolls! To see what flavors they have… check out their website before you go.

I bought their ’sie-dai-tin-wong’ which has 4 different flavors inside so I can get to taste a few. In the box there are a portion of Carrot Cream Cheese, Banana Cream Cheese, Pumpkin Cream Cheese and Spinach Cream Cheese. Personally I find the pumpkin and carrot taste really nice. I also bought another roll of Fresh Mango with fresh cream filling… and it was yummy too! A friend suggested that I try their Cempedak flavor if I’m buying again.

We were away in Ipoh for the entire weekend (Friday was a public holiday) so did not have much stuff in the fridge since we did not go grocery shopping before our trip. When we were back on Monday afternoon, I was too tired to go out again so Tuesday bento was a jiffy one…

There still some layer cakes left in the fridge so I decided to finish them up before they expired.  Darrius loves those layer cakes to bits! There are 2 different flavors in this box. Tthe one in purple in star shape was prune and the brown one in plane shape is the regular flavor.

I steamed some mini mantou to make it look like clouds. Then there are two cherry tomatoes balloons to fill up the box…

It has been a while since I last use some of the cute bento boxes in my collection. While I was looking through what I have in the many boxes around the house, I saw the Tomica Car box which used to be Darrius’s favorite.

Thinking that I still have a few slices of that charcoal bread it will be a good idea to use it for the wheels…

In today’s bento, the car shape sandwich is spread with strawberry jam. The details for the windows and rims is cheese. There are some chicken cocktails, a crab claw, a slice of Chinese pear, some sliced cucumber and cherry tomatoes.

There won’t be any classes tomorrow as it is a public holiday here in Malaysia. This weekend we will head down to Ipoh for some family events so there won’t be any bento posts!

Have fun bento-ing!

I was rummaging through my fridge yesterday and discovered I have a cucumber bought last week hidden behind some boxes. When I took it out I found out a portion has already start to rot so I quickly flip through my bento books and see what can I do with it… then saw this cute little frog which is not too tough to do.

Not sure what is his name (coz I know he is not Keroppi) so I’ll just call him Froggy!

I am using my new Elmo bento box which is a nice size for a snack bento. I made a luncheon meat sandwich with white bread with Froggy on top cut out using a bear cutter with details using cheese and nori. Added some carrot flowers as deco. There are 2 slices of apples, 2 mini chicken cocktails topped with cheese flowers and 2 cherry tomatoes.

Hope Darrius will be happy to see Froggy this morning!