Pasta and Mummy sandwich

I attended Nutrition Australia Women's Program‏ yesterday. It's a 4 week government funded program to teach women about nutrition, healthy eating, tips in food budgeting, and eventually money saving.
Even though it was just my first week, it inspires me already. It is so important to keep a lot of variety in our meal, especially vegetables, legumes, and fruits. We cooked Mediterranean Chicken and Vegetable Couscous dish and surprisingly there are 12 ingredients in there (couscous, chicken, carrot, tomato, sultanas, dried apricot, spring onion, chickpeas, parsley, with garlic, olive oil and lemon for dressing), and it tastes so GOOD!

So, after getting home, I checked my pantry and fridge, and decided to make similar kind of food using pasta. There are pasta, prawn, chicken, carrot, peas, corn, sultanas, avocado, parsley, spring onion, olive oil, garlic, lemon and I was quite happy on how it turns out. And the best thing is that my kids love it too :)

I saved some leftover for his bento next day.

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Pasta with chicken, prawn, and vegetable
2. Hard boiled egg
3. "Shell" shaped jelly
4. Lettuce
5. Grapes and rockmelon cuts

And my little one prefers food that is easy to grab by his little fingers. So I prepared :
1. Mummy sandwich (ham & cheese sandwich with sultanas)
2. Haw flakes (Chinese sweet)
3. "Heart"shaped jelly
4. Grapes
5. Lettuce

Temaki Sushi

Basically, temaki sushi is an easier way to make sushi at home.It is made of a rolled cone of seaweed, wrapped around rice and fillings. Here is the link of Nami's Just One Cookbook on how to make it. She's one of my favourite food blogger and you will definitely know why, after visiting her well presented blog.

Here are details of bento lunch box that I made for my eldest son :

In the square box, I prepared :
1. Temaki sushi (with carrot, cucumber, and crab stick filling)
2. Stir fried baby corn with mushroom
3. Chicken karaage
4. Tamagoyaki (egg-rolls)
5. Lettuce and broccoli

In the round box, I prepared rockmelon cuts for his recess

That's all his favorite meal, he said he can't wait till lunch time :)

The Witch and Her Pink Cat

Here are the details to make the witch :
* For the hat : cheese, carrot, and nori
* For the head : hard boiled egg and nori
* For the body : onigiri (white steamed rice) with furikake inside, nori, and cheese

For the filling :
* "tulip" Sausages and for the broom, I put Angel hair pasta into the sausage.
* Crab meatball with cat foodpick
* Broccoli and lettuce