Star Wars Angry Bird Bento

It's May the 4th today and it's Star Wars Day. In celebration of Star Wars Day , I'm joining a blog hop with my fellow Bento Bloggers and Friends. Be sure to click on the links at the end of my post, to check out lots more awesome Star Wars bentos my friends have made. I've made Stormtrooper and Darth Vader bentos before last year, click HERE to take a look at them.


My boys had been asking for Star Wars Angry Birds for their bentos. So, I grabbed this opportunity to make them some. They took a long time to finish this meal because they were too busy playing with the light saber picks and Angry Birds. -_-


Red bird is Luke Skywalker, Yellow bird is Han Solo and Pink bird is Princess Leia. Bento is packed with onigiri coloured with deco furi, ginger pork, broccoli and strawberries. The Angry Birds details were done with beanskin, nori, bread, ham and cheese.


Stormtrooper pigs for their snacks.


These did not quite turned out the way I expected. Initially, I was rather upset and even forgot to add in my Star Wars picks. :( However, my boys saw their snacks and said it's very nice. That made me feel a whole lot better, since it's good enough for me that they are happy with it.


I also made Chewbacca and Obi-wan Kenobi Angry Birds sandwiches for my boys.


They were both made from multi-grained bread. I added on a layer of cheese and nori for Obi-wan Kenobi and his cape is sweet beanskin.

Now, are you ready to follow the Way of the Jedi? All you have to do is click on the image above, hop over to Lunchbox Dad and check out his amazing Chewbacca bento. :)

After you complete the hop on the Way of the Jedi and make your way back to my blog, why not click on the image above and hop over to the Dark Side and check out lots more awesome Star Wars bentos. :) Have fun and May the Fourth be with you! :)

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Bread Car Bento

I've always wanted to make cars from bread buns, but somehow never got to it till now. I did a step by step photos on how to do these bread cars in today's post. :)


I made a boy and girl driving bear cars. :P The bun is filled with tuna. :)


My boys also had croquettes, broccoli and strawberries for lunch. :)


I packed a slightly different version for School, bears driving bear cars instead. :)


They fit in well in these sandwich boxes. :)


I've been lazy to pack myself a lunch box these days, preferring to just spend whatever extra time I have to catch up on my dramas. -_- Here's a dinner I managed to snap a photo of, dinner that day was taiwanese minced pork stew, chicken cutlet and fish soup. :)

Sharing the steps to make the bread cars below.


Slice off a portion of the bread as shown above. Fill your bun with whatever fillings you prefer.


Boil sausage and slice out 8 small sections, 4 for the wheels and 2 for the bear's ears. If you find the sausages too big for the bear's ears, you can cut it with a smaller round cutter.


Attach on the car's wheels and bear's ears with pasta. I'm using a thicker pasta here so it will hold better. Cut out ovals for bear's eyes and circle for bear's nose from cheese.


Punch out blusher for bear's cheeks from ham. You can also use a straw if you do not have a small round cutter. I used the mutli-shoe puncher for the bear's features.


For the steering wheel, cut out cheese with a circle. Then, cut the circle in half and use a toothpick to cut out the shape of the wheel. Lay the cheese on nori and cut nori following the cheese outline.


I used the above cutters and puncher to make the bear.


Assemble the steering wheel and bear on the car and you are done. :) I should have done these earlier, they are cute and easy to make! I will probably be doing lots of variations of these, like Hello Kitty driving a Hello Kitty car, Rilakkuma driving a Rilakkuma car, etc.

One more thing before I end my post. It's Star Wars Day tomorrow, and I will be joining a Star Wars bento hop. I will be posting my Star Wars bentos after midnight, please check back to see what I did and to visit other blogs to check out what my bento friends have done. :)

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Sleeping Bunny Bento

I was feeling really tired on Monday, so I decided to make a sleeping bunny bento for my boys, to reflect my mood for that day. :P


Bunny is made from hard boiled egg and nori. He's sleeping on a ham pillow and a bed of red rice. His blanket is made from egg sheet. I separated egg yolks from egg whites, cooked the egg yolk first, cut out holes with a round cutter, and then poured in egg whites in the holes. Unfortunately, my egg sheet broke while I was transferring it unto the bento. :(


My boys shared this bento, I packed the other box with chicken yakitori, broccoli and strawberries. :)


Made these sleeping bunnies for my boys' snack time. The bunnies are made from egg, nori and ham, and the sleeping bag is carrot bread. The salad is mine, lol. :p


These sandwiches are fast and easy to make. I took some step by step photos on how to make them, hope it's useful.


Prepare one hard boiled egg, one egg can make two bunnies. Slice egg in half.


Slice off a little egg white from bottom of the halved egg and trim out bunny's ears with a pair of scissors. I used some ham for the ears as well, you can also leave out the ham if you prefer.


Cut out your bread, using the egg as a guide.


Fold bread over bunny egg and secure with pasta.


I used this puncher for bunny's eyes and nose. Dot on blusher with decor gel or some ketchup.


Ta-dah, completo! Another fast charaben idea. :)

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