Elmo & Cookie Monster Noodle

My boys are having a one week school break next week. The 10 week school term just went by so fast. Looking forward to waking up later next week, already have a few appointments and IT is inviting his friends over for a playdate, he has been arranging his own playdates since last year and LT always just tag along if he goes to his friend's house.

Elmo & Cookie Monster Burger Bento

It's been sometime since I made burgers for lunch. I decided to make some on Wednesday and serve them in wooden crates for my boys.


I decorated one burger as Elmo and the other one as Cookie Monster. However, when my boys saw the burger, they said I've made Ernie instead, lol.


These are chicken burger, with hash browns and strawberries. To make the patties, I mixed minced chicken with fish paste, coat them with panko and shallow fried them in oil.


I packed and decorated a set for myself too. It does looks like Ernie here, I should have added on his hair, lol.

Where to get same or similar item used in today's post:

Elmo & Cookie Monster Bento

Elmo and Cookie Monster did not appear in the same bento, lol. They were done on different days. They are both really simple and fast to make, give it a try if you are looking for a fast way to add a character in your bento.

Sesame Street picks, which Bento With Yenn sent me as a gift. They added the finishing touch to my Elmo and Cookie Monster bento. Check out her very nicely done up site for lots more cute bento stuff. :)

Just fill up silicon cup with some rice, add on cheese and nori for Cookie Monster. The rice was coloured with butterfly pea flower, love the nice blue natural colour. The other food in the bento are teriyaki salmon, broccoli, grapes and strawberries.


The boys had this for snack yesterday.:)


And for Snack today, they had Elmo sausage buns. Just cut out 2 circles and an oval, add in nori, and you get an Elmo sausage. :)


I packed in some grapes and strawberries too. :)

Where to get same or similar items seen in today's bentos:

Elmo and Cookie Monster Bento

I made Universal Studios Japan's version of Elmo and Cookie Monster today. Love this version because it's very easy to make and yet look cuter than the original version. :)

Onigiri with meat patties, golden kiwis, grapes and blueberries.


Blue rice coloured with butterfly pea flower and red rice coloured with beetroot.


The usual sandwiches for School, with fillings they requested, packed with grapes and meat patty.


Same colouring ingredients used to make the bread. But the beetroot version was more towards a faint brown instead, will have to experiment on that again. :)

Elmo Bento

It's Elmo to end the week, he's my favourite character from Sesame Street. The boys adore him when they were toddlers, they still like him, but not as much as before. :)


Bento for IT, in the box are onigiri, pork roll, miso chicken, strawberries and blueberries. The rice is coloured with beet. And I was trying to make cookie monster from the blueberries, but I know can't really tell it's him, lol. :)


Bento for LT, same food as above. This is the first time I use miso to marinade the chicken, I usually use it for cod and salmon. The verdict is we like the miso chicken, so will definitely be cooking that again.


Bento for IT's recess, in the box are nutella sandwich, miso chicken and grapes. Decided to do chocolate painting, instead of cutting Elmo from cheese. I already have a bag of cheese cut outs to clear, so I don't want to add on to it.


Bento for LT to bring to School, same food as above, except he's having strawberry jam sandwich.


The pink furry Elmo is mine, cute right? Heehee, I hang it on one of my bag. :P


Salad with miso chicken for me. Something light, coz it's hubby's birthday today and we will be having a seafood feast tonight. :P

Have a good weekend, I'll be back again on Monday. :)

Cookie Monster and Elmo Bento

Argh, I dunno what's wrong with my internet these two days, it's super slow and the pages take really long to load. And the photos take forever to upload and end up with an error message after the uploading is complete. Loading them individually does not work either. -_- It took me more than hour just uploading these photos. :(


Bento for IT, in the box are rice, chicken balls, spinach tamago, tomato, quail eggs, strawberries.


Bento for LT, same food as above. The quail egg on the right broke while I was moulding it. -_-


Bento for IT's recess, in the box are butter/sugar bread, chicken ball and grapes. The natural blue colouring was a tad too dark on bread for my liking, and I din want to use artificial colours, so ended up with a brown cookie monster, lol.


Bento for IT to bring to School, same food as above.


C is for cookie, that's good enough for me...... :p