Fried Rice Bento

This simple bento is very fast to assemble. It consists :
1. Fried rice (with pork, prawn, peas and corn)
2. Tamagoyaki (egg rolls)
3. Potato patties
4. Broccoli and carrot

notes : the fried rice and potato patties are from leftover dinner. Just reheat, cool and assemble it into the box.

Tangled Sausage Bento

  I just got this idea from the internet, and am so eager to try. It turns out to be so cute. This is how to make it :

 Insert some dried angel hair pasta (or spaghetti) inside sausage cuts. And then boil them until al dente.

Here is the result. I cooked them with garlic, a squirt of lemon juice, and chop parsley. You can put in sour cream as well if you like. 

The kids love it because it looks tangled and unique. So I saved some for their bento.

For my little one, I prepared :
1. Tangled sausage pasta
2. Corn on the cob
3. Hard boiled egg
4. "Butterfly" cheese sliced
5. Carrot sticks
6. Kiwi fruit

And for my eldest one, I prepared :
1. Tangled sausage pasta
2. Corn on the cob
3. Hard boiled egg
4. Carrot sticks
5. Broccoli

Chicken Wraps Bento

Menu for this time is chicken wraps. Inside the wraps are chicken nuggets, ham, shredded carrot and cheese, and BBQ sauce. Details are below :

For my year 2 son, I prepared :

1. Chicken wrap

2. Halves hard boiled egg

3. "Octopus" sausages

4. Broccoli

For my kindy son, I prepared :
1. Chicken wrap
2."Crab" sausage
3. Broccoli
4. Melon cuts

Mini Pizza

I tried to give variety in their lunch boxes. This mini pizza is so fast & easy to make. Just cut wraps in round shape, sprinkle with shredded cheese and put sausage on top. Bake for 10 minutes at 180C.

For my little one, I prepared :
1. Mini pizza
2. "Piggy" hard boiled egg
3. Corn fritter
4. Kiwi fruit and carrot

For my eldest one, I prepared :
1. Mini pizza
2. Corn fritter
3. "Cow" hard boiled egg
4. Broccoli and carrot

Grumpy Onigiri

Another character on simple onigiri. This box consists of :
1. Grumpy onigiri (white steamed rice and nori)
2. Bihun goreng (fried rice vermicelli)  decorated with corriander leaf
3. "Carrot" flower
4. Honey soy grilled chicken
5. Tamagoyaki

Angry Birds Birthday Cake

It's been a hectic week for me since I was preparing my son's birthday party. Would love to share this Angry Birds birthday Cake. Special request from my son because he loves playing Angry birds so much and I really had fun in making it. It was just like playing with playdough :p

Top view

Front view

Inside, there was a surprise battenberg checker pattern. It was time consuming, but totally worth it!

This is how to make it : http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2852685/peekaboo-battenberg-cake

Alien and UFO

This bento consists of :
1. Ham & Cheese sandwich with alien and UFO on top (eggsheet, black sesame seed, and nori)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Halves hard boiled egg
4. Sausages
5. Broccoli and grapes

Terrified Onigiri and Handy Manny Tools

Inspired by Handy Manny TV program and just to make some characters in onigiri.
Details as below :

For my eldest son, the bento box consists of :
1. Terrified onigiri (white steamed rice, nori, and eggsheet)
2. Maling Guo Long and sausage
3. Stir fried bean sprout and bacon
4. Broccoli and grapes
5. Banana for recess

For my little one, the bento box consists of :
1. Handy Manny tools sandwich (ham & cheese sandwich, eggsheet, nori, and leek leaf)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Cheese pod
4. "Octopus" sausage
5. Kiwi fruit

Penguins Onigiri

This bento consists of :
1. Penguin onigiri (white steamed rice, nori, eggsheet, and corn)
2. Penguin sausages (sausage, nori, eggsheet, and corn)
3. Broccoli
4. Zucchini, leek and celery slice (recipe as below)
5. Grapes


ZUCCHINI SLICE (with leek and celery)

Ingredients
2 zucchini, grated
1 large onion finely chopped
3 rashers bacon finely chopped
1 cup tasty cheese grated
1 cup self-raising flour
a dash of oil
5 eggs
Salt/pepper

Method
Preheat oven to 170*C. Grease and line a lamington tin with baking paper.
Combine zucchini, onion, bacon, flour and cheese in a large bowl. Add oil and lightly beaten eggs, and mix. Season with a little salt and pepper. Pour into lamington tin.
Bake for 35-40 mins until golden and set. Allow to cool slightly before cutting.
Note:
For my version, I added leek and celery sticks, I cut thinly.
It's a good idea for fussy eaters :)

Sporty Onigiri and Cheeky Monkey

Details as below :

For my 7 year old son, I prepared :
1. "Sporty onigiri" (white steamed rice, nori, eggsheet, and carrot)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Noodle and roast chicken
4. Broccoli and leek leaf as baran
5. Apple "checker " and "rabbits"

For my little one because he's as cheeky as a monkey, I prepared :
1. Monkey sandwich (ham & cheese sandwich, nori, eggsheet, cheese pod)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Carrot sticks and leak leaf as baran
4. Kiwi fruits

Ironman Birthday Theme

My eldest son is turning 7 years old today.He requested Ironman birthday cake to celebrate with his classmates. So I prepared little portion of bento lunch with Ironman theme as well :) I supposed he will be too full with the cake that he had in recess.

The box consists of :

1. Ironman sandwich (strawberry jam sandwich with eggsheet)

2. Hard boiled egg

3. Broccoli and sausage

And here is the Ironman birthday cake and some Ironman cupcakes on the side.
It's a white vanilla birthday cake decorated with marshmallow fondant.
The kids finished it in no time :)

Pretty Rabbit

I actually wanted to make Bear onigiri, but somehow it looked more like rabbit instead :)
This bento consists of :
1. Pretty rabbit onigiri (white steamed rice, nori, and eggsheet)
2. Halves boiled egg
3. Chicken roast slices
4. Zucchini and carrot "flower"
5. Grapes

The Singing Frogs and Crawling Baby

Details as below :

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Singing frogs (white steamed rice, zucchini, nori, and black sesame seed)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Salmon nugget
4. Broccoli with cheese, carrot flower and grapes

For my little one, I prepared :
1. Crawling baby croissant (ham & cheese mini croissant, with eggsheet, nori & black sesame seed for the crawling baby)
2. Corn on the cob with carrot "flower" on top
3. Salmon nugget (with grated carrot in it)
4. "Snail" mandarin

Ninjago and Cloud Baby

Inspired by Ninjago from Lego games and Cloudbabies from ABC2 TV channel.
Details as below :

I can't help loving this cute cloud baby when I accompany my kids watching this new TV program - Cloudbabies - as the picture quality & creativity are so good.
In this bento (for my little one) I prepared :
1. Cloud baby mini croissant (ham & cheese croissant, eggsheet, and nori)
2. Salmon nuggets (with grated carrot in it)
3. Corn on the cob
4. Mandarin & grapes
5. Carrot flower and leak leaf as divider

For my eldest son, Ninjago is the best :) It consists of :
1. Kai - Ninjago sandwich (ham & cheese sandwich, eggsheet, nori, and bread crust)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Salmon nuggets (with grated carrot in it)
4. Halves boiled egg
5. Broccoli

Android and Om Nom

Today's themes are Android symbol and Om Nom from my kids favourite game : Cut the Rope.
Details as below :

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Android sandwich (ham & cheese sandwich, with eggsheet and nori on top)
2. Grapes
3. Salmon nuggets
4. Corn on the cob
5. Hard boiled egg
6. Broccoli and carrot flower

For my little one, I prepared :
1. Om Nom sandwich (ham & cheese sandwich, with eggsheet, nori, and black sesame seed)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Salmon nuggets with ketchup
4. Mandarin

Rubber Ducks

This bento consists of :
1. Rubber ducks onigiri (white steamed rice coloured with turmeric, carrot, eggsheet, and nori)
2. Salmon nuggets
3. Hatched egg
4. Grapes
5. Broccoli and leak leaf as divider

Footy Boy

This bento consists of :
1. Little boy onigiri (white steamed rice, nori, eggsheet)
2. Footy ball (hard boiled egg, and nori)
3. Baby corn stir fried with ham
4. Battered fried pork
5. Tulip sausages
6. Broccoli and carrot flower

Similar tool I used for this post :

notes : to maintain the quality & sharpness of nori punch, use it through aluminium foil several times before using it for nori. It will give better result.

Little Puppies and The Lion

I prepared Little Puppies onigiri for my eldest son and Lion sandwich for my youngest son.
Details as below :

This bento consists of :
1. "Little puppies" onigiri (white steamed rice, nori, black sesame seed and eggsheet)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Battered fried pork and sausage
4. Baby corn and ham stir fried sprinkled with carrot cuts
5. Broccoli

This bento consists of :
1. Lion sandwich (ham, cheese, eggsheet, and nori)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Leak leaf as divider
4. Octopus sausages (sausage, corn, eggsheet, and black sesame seed)
5. Halves boiled egg
6. Carrot "flowers"

Pirate Sandwich bento

Usually my eldest son requests onigiri for his lunch. But after seeing his little brother’s "baby" sandwich, he asked for it. So, instead of baby, I made for him a pirate sandwich.

It consists of :
1. Pirate ham & cheese sandwich (sandwich, ham, cheese, eggsheet, and nori)
2. Corn on the cob
3. "Fish" hard boiled egg
4. "Fishes" sausages
5. Broccoli

Baby and Zebra Onigiri

The beginning of term 2.The boys have been recharged, and so ready to go to school :)

I prepared Baby and Zebra onigiri for them. Detail as below :

                                                                                                           

For my eldest son, the lunch box consists of :
1. Zebra onigiri (white steamed rice, nori, black sesame seed and eggsheet)
2. Two little cute penguin (sausage, corn, black sesame seed and eggsheet)
3. Baby corn and ham stir fried
4. Battered fried pork
5. Broccoli

For my little one, I prepared :
1. "Baby" ham & cheese sandwich (ham, cheese, eggsheet, and nori)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Hard boiled egg (I cut it with flower cutter and decorated it with eggsheet and black sesame seed)
4. Zucchini slices and carrot sticks
5. Octopus sausage

Bebento A48

Due to school holiday, I prepared this lunch box for my hubby. It consists of :
1. Steamed rice with asparagus on top and sprinkles of black sesame seed and furikake.
2. Baby corn and enoki mushroom stir fried
3. Daikon cooked with garlic and beef mince
4. Lemon grass marinated pork fillet
5. A dollop of Loganma chili oil