Thursday 30 June 2011

Bear and Owl

Didn't like how the bear turned out. I should not have moulded his ears with the face. Snack was a nutella Owl sandwich, details drawn on with chocolate pen.

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Bento for IT

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Bento for LT

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Owl Snack sandwich for IT

Wednesday 29 June 2011

Heart Sammys

Yes, it's lazy day for me again today. Made used of my collection of barans to jazz up the bento. In case u are wondering how I close some of my lunch bentos, as some of them seemed too fully packed, actually I dun close them up. That's because the boys take their lunch bentos at home, so I just leave them on the table and cover with the mesh food cover.

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Bento for LT

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Bento for IT

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Snack bento for IT

Tuesday 28 June 2011

Pooh Bear Again

Decided to continue with the pooh bear theme again. IT has been requesting for me to pack him some fries for recess, so today, decided to give him a treat and added in some. Main for lunch was carbonara with bacon bits, yummy but sinful.

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LT's bento

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IT's bento

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LT's snack bento for school. It's the first time he is bringing a lunch box to school. Little fella was very proud and happy to bring it to school.

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Yes, IT, has a smaller snack box, coz he eats very slowly. I want him to be able to finish fast and still have time to play for recess.

Monday 27 June 2011

Pooh Bear

School has reopen again after the one month break. I need to get into the routine again, the past one month has been a bliss. No need to rush to send and fetch the boys to and from school. We enjoyed each other's company during the holiday. Now I need to get into the momentum again.

LT has requested to have a bento on the day his school serves porridge, as he does not like to eat porridge. So once a week, I will have to prepare 4 bentos, instead of 3.

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IT's bento, yes, it's supposed to be pooh bear, but the boys says looks more like piglet. lol.

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LT's bento

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IT's snack bento

Tuesday 14 June 2011

The Boys' Creations

Holidays are almost coming to an end. Decided to let the boys try their hand at making their own bentos today. Gave them something easy to start with, just shaping the onigiri, putting on the nori expressions. They had fun.

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IT shaping his rice.

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LT shaping his rice.

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Punching out the nori, with the expression they chose

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Fixing it on the rice ball

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Ta-dah, IT's bento

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Closer look at IT's creation

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This is LT's bento

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Closer look at LT's bento

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They couldn't wait to dig in

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Yummy

Thursday 9 June 2011

Tototro bento

I am a fan of Totoro. I showed the boys the cartoon last year and they loved it too. We were planning to visit the Ghibli museum on our last visit to Tokyo, but we could not get the tickets. Hope to visit the museum on our next trip there.

We chanced upon a Ghibli museum store, while shopping at Sunshine city, in Tokyo. I will be sharing some of the photos below.

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Bento for IT

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Bento for LT

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My bento

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Yay, a totoro store :)

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All the characters in totoro

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Which one to get?

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Awwwww, he's so cute.

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The soot spirit

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Checking out a spinning totoro top

Monday 6 June 2011

Anpanman buns and Anpanman Children's Museum

My first attempt at breadmaking. Was quite happy with the result, filled the buns with ham and block cheddar. The eyes and mouth were drawn on with edible food marker.

We went on a trip to the Yokohama Anpanman Children's museum last year. The boys had great fun there, I'm sharing some photos of the trip in this post.

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Anpanman buns, made by me

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IT checking out the poster at the train station

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the museum

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Checking out the exhibits, lots of interactive exhibits there.

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Anpanman's sidekick, I dunno his name. :P

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Checking out the menu, there's a restaurant there as well.

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Entry gift to the museum for the kids.

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Very Kawaii bread at the Bakery there

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Our box of Yummies

Friday 3 June 2011

Angry Birds

It's June holidays for my boys, so I've not been making bentos for them. We are staying at home today, so I decided to make them a bento. My boys love playing angry birds on iPad. IT's favorite is the red bird and LT loves the blue one, it's also their favorite colors. I made Swedish meatballs today. Meatballs were done with Jamie oliver's recipe.

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Bento for IT

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Bento for LT

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Mine, with salad. The boys dun eat raw vegetables. IT eats cooked veg. LT hates veg, have to coax him to take them.