Mini Tiny "Curry Puffs" Sammies Bentos

I thought I can finally rest after 3 continuation days of bento makings but last night Messy asked if I could prepare for her again this morning！I was surprised by her request！She's always so lazy and sometimes so reluctant to bring bentos to school when I wanted her to but now she wanted to bring, moreover today (every Fridays) she doesn't need to stay back for any activities！ Of course I'm more than happy and readily agreed to her request！Till now the question mark is still in my head but I can't be bothered to ask her, as long as she likes to bring. 
Today's sammies for both girls are only with butter spread and nothing else. They don't feel like having any fillings for their breads. I'm already done with all the apple wedges last night so these two bentos are my 1st real speedy ones among all！I just took less than 15mins for one bento.  

Messy's Mini Tiny "Curry Puffs" Sammies Bento with 3 Apple Wedges Rabbits

I used nonpareils color balls for the rabbits' eyes

 Cheeky's Mini Tiny "Curry Puffs" Sammies Bento with 2 Apple Wedges Rabbits

Messy cleared her bento box in school and even bought a fishball claiming she's still hungry after that. I think she just feel like eating it... 
She had plain porridge with some fried sweet preserved radish and olive vegetable for lunch, ate about 2 spoonfuls of rice, some spinach and a small bowl of wanton soup for dinner. Her intakes for this week are lessen by about 2/3 of her normal portion of a meal although she told me her appetite is getting better and she seems so tired. Went to bed at 10pm even though there's no school tomorrow. 

Girl Sammies and Rabbits Sammies Bentos

Yesterday when Messy came back from school, she told me that one of her classmate, Brinda, tried the Flower Sammies I prepared for her in the morning and said it's very nice but she was too shy to have another. Brinda thought I made the salmon tuna fillings and Messy told her it is those canned tuna spread.  Upon hearing this, I told Messy I could prepare one set for Brinda the next day since I'll be doing for her anyway and she said okay. 
Actually Messy told me to make the same mini sammies because it's fast and easy to eat, just pop it into her mouth but I want to make something different. Haha... 
I just finished with two big round sammies (w/o any feature details yet) with salmon tuna spread + addition corn kernels for more sweetness and crunchness when Messy woke up at 6AM. She told me that she just want to have ONE sammies today. 
"The other is for Brinda, Darling." I told her... (has she forgotten??? ) "No need... her Mommy will be preparing food for her every Wednesdays." Messy said. "But I thought you said okay last night when I told you I can make a set for her too?" She smiled apologetically and replied "Hee... I wasn't really listening to you because I was watching the show. Never mind, give this to 妹妹 then." Haiz... what can I say besides "okay..."
Frankly, I'm a little disappointed...  but that's okay, at least I know that her friends like the bentos I made and there are always chances to make for them！   

Messy's Girl Sammies Bento with 2 Bear-shaped Fishcakes and 2 skewers of Edamame.  

Cheeky's Rabbits Sammies Bento with 2 Bear-shaped Fishcakes and Salad. The salad consists of Edamame, corn kernels and imitation crabsticks mixed with mayo.

Like what I'd mentioned in my post yesterday, Cheeky don't really like salmon tuna spread, she asked for the same butter + kaya spread again.

Flower Sammies Bentos

Hi friends, it's been a few days since I last update my blog. Actually I'm here everyday but went around viewing and reading posts from other Bento Mamas. Hee hee... 
Poor Messy has been sick from Good Friday (Easter Day) till now. She got slight fever suddenly on that morning when she woke up. Normally I'll have Paracetamol for stand-by inside the fridge so I gave her a dosage. Few hours later, her fever subsided but I still continued giving her the medicine according to the timing apart for the next dosage so that the virus would go away completely but this virus is so reluctant to leave her body！ It went on and off for 2 consecutive days and on the 3rd day, Sunday, her temperature shot up to 39 degrees and accompanied by cough！Me and my Mom hurried brought her to the nearest 24Hrs Clinic. The doctor prescribed some medications and put Messy on medical sick leave from her school the next day to make sure that she had adequate rest. 
Luckily the fever virus finally went away on Monday and Messy was well enough to go back to school on Tuesday although still has got slight cough and running nose. 
Her appetite wasn't so good after recovery so I decided to make her some sammies with canned salmon tuna which is her favourite and she only wanted that for the fillings.  

Messy's Flower Sammies and Friends Bento

Cheeky's Flower Sammies and Stars Bento

I make some sammies with butter and kaya fillings for Cheeky as she don't really like salmon tuna. 

"Cut The Rope" Froggy Bento

Today Cheeky is going to the Health Promotion Board with the school on excursion. They are learning "My Body" last month and was supposed to go there in March but due to many cases of HFMD in her school, they delayed the trip. 
Usually it's quite difficult to get her outta bed (takes after me... ) but whenever there is any outings or special occasions, she'll jump outta bed very fast and get herself prepare even before you ask her to！
Since she's going outta school, I prepare something that will be easier for her to eat w/o messing up. 

Cheeky's "Cut the Rope" Froggy Sandwich with fish fillet

In order to get all the different facial expressions of the frog in "Cut the Rope" game last few days, I  played the game (drawing at the same time) so many times until my iPhone got so hot！

Mini Heart Sammies Bento

This morning I woke up early at 8am to prepare breakfast and bento for Cheeky as I already promised her last night. I didn't stay up as usual to prepare because Messy doesn't want any bento for today although she need to stay back in school until 5pm. According to her, every Wednesday, there won't be so many students buying food after school so she has got more than enough time before her remedial lesson starts at 1.30pm. I did insist to make a set for her but she is persistent too... 

I used my new Mini Hearts Sandwich Cutter to make the sammies, stuffed them with diced fish fillets+mayo. A ham blossom and filled up with Cheeky's favourite star fishcakes.

 I decided to try making the ham blossom that I saw in Hapa Bento's blog when Cheeky wanted ham in her bento. Both of us like it so much！
I bet Messy will be jealous of Cheeky's bento again when she sees this after school！LOL

Sunflower Egg Raisin Bun Bento

This was made on 24th Mar, Thursday when Messy had Math Remedial in school. Her Math is very weak since the first year she attended former school. I had tried teaching her on my own but in vain because no matter how much I tried explaining to her, she don't seems to understand and nowadays' Math is so complicated！Both of us were so much under stress during that period of time. In the end, I gave up and decided to get her a tutor which is the only best way out for both of us and YES！She really did showed so much improvements in her Final Year End Exams and all her results improved by 50%！Great！What a relief for the 2 of us.
But as her level goes higher, the difficulties go higher too. She doesn't has a very good foundation in Math (she hate this subject the most), LAZY to solve the sums, so ended up with Math Remedial every year.

I decided to make this Sunflower Egg Raisin Bun Bento because I just bought the raisin buns and Messy wanted bread for that day as she already had rice the other day, so I went online to search under my few favourite blogs for some ideas and saw this interesting, fun looking sunflower from Cute Food For Kids? I did a few pots of mushroom from chiwaku, 2 small chicken sausages of flowers and covered those empty spaces with frozen mixed veg.

Actually this was my 2nd Sunflower Egg cooked on that morning. The 1st one failed as some of the "petals" couldn't stick and fell off. Maybe I didn't put in the cheese sausages earlier before the egg white starts to cook.

Sunflower Egg Raisin Bun Bento

My Previous Bentos

All these Bentos are made from the past 2 mths in Jan & Feb. Most ideas are found online where else some are just created with Messy & Cheeky's fav food. As time passes by, I noticed that I'm beginning to run outta ideas！ Especially when I'm staying up for the night, mind not working！

Messy made the sandwich & I made the bear + salmon fish. She woke up half hr earlier than usual to make her own sandwich. 

Really must use LARGE EGGS for the egg molds if not this is how your Star & Heart eggs turn out to be. As for the rice, I steamed the normal rice grains and added little soy sauce to stir for taste. 

Made this on one of the Sunday when my niece came over, afraid that she may not like to eat 'mee hoon kueh' so I shaped out the dough made by my mom specially for the kids. 

The girls, especially my niece were so amused by those shapes and all of them finished up everything！

This is for Messy, sandwiches for recess time & rice for her lunch in sch as she had got CCA on. This is one of my fav bento among all. Imagine, I spent almost 2HRS on this！I believed all of you can tell how much Messy loves to eat sandwiches！

This is for Cheeky. As I had mentioned in my earlier post,  I had more time to prepare Cheeky's bento, Messy always says that hers aren't as nicely decorated as Cheeky's and vice verse. 

My 1st Bentos

I made my very 1st bento on 27th Jan 2011. I woke up very early at 530am to prepare and cook what I had learned from YouTube - Tamagoyaki and Octodogs. Also the 'girl' design sandwich from Susan Yuen, the most famous Bento Cookbook author in Hawaii.

As I couldn't find the rectangle pan for cooking tamago, I just went ahead using the normal round non-stick pan. As for the seasoning in Tamagoyaki, I just used what I can find in mom's kitchen (we're staying with my parents currently and waiting for our new flat) and also using the most simple recipe found online because I still can't get what's mirin and dashi for at that time! Anyway it still turned out nice！ 

Messy was so happy to see her sandwich bento so 'nicely & beautifully' decorated for the first time but at the same time she was getting anxious because she's going to be late for school! We rushed through doing the last decoration for the other 'tanned' girl made by Messy and I hurried sent her to school. I took the pic in the car while we were waiting for the car to warm up... Luckily she was just in time for school. *pheeew*

This is also the FIRST TIME Messy didn't nagged/complained about not leaving the house before 7am because I can tell from her facial expression : "mommy send me to school today！" & "mommy make me a special lunchbox today！

 

Messy's 1st sandwich bento with mixed veg salad & a heart-shaped Tamagoyaki.

 After sending Messy to school, I went back home to continue with Cheeky's bento. Although she's in ChildCare Ctr, there are food for her provided but she also wanted a special lunchbox.

Cheeky's 1st sandwich bento with 2 Octodogs & a heart-shaped Tamagoyaki.

 As I had more time to prepare for Cheeky, hers was more nicely done than Messy's. I'm slow in doing things when it comes to decorations, so I told myself : "I must get up much more earlier to prepare！" which I know that I sure cannot make it！ So from then on I'll stay up throughout the night if I were to prepare bentos for them... Lucky I only have to prepare for them when Messy needs to stay back in school for extra activities which is 2-3 days per week or when I feel like doing if not I'll become panda bear very soon！