More Bento Tools( AGAIN！?)

Hahaha... More bento tools again！ I got all these from J-Mama & Baby, ordered in conjunction with another friend. Actually they already arrived quite some time back but because they're with my cousin and both of us didn't meet up for the past few weeks due to busying with the kids' exams preparations etc... So I just leave with her and let her use first. My cousin tried using the Hello Kitty Bread/Rice Mold to make pancakes (it's stated this can be used for bread, rice, mashed potato, pancakes) but so sad it didn't turned out nice, maybe because she's not using non-stick pan. I think my bento posts will be stopping soon as the long school holidays (1 mth) are here in another 2 weeks time from now, but I'll try my best to do some if the girls want or maybe I can just do some bento lunches for them at home！

4 Different Designs of Silicone Chocolate Molds 

Sandwich Cutters with 4 Designs in a set.

Left : Hello Kitty and Pooh Bear Bread/Rice Molds
Right : 2 different sets of Cute Food Cutters 

Leaf and Heart Cute Food Picks + 3 Different Sizes of Egg Food Cups that come with Food picks in a set

Are these going to be my LAST orders of bento tools??? I'm already trying my very best to control myself on my impulsive buyings of all these！ But I had been wanted to get some cute mini punchers from Carla Craft... LOL

Self-Made Flag Picks

I saw quite a few Bento Mamas doing their own self-made unique picks and it gave me an idea what to do with all those stickers that I had collected for the past few years. See... I told you... I just love to collect all kinda cutie stuffs！
But I didn't use my stickers today, instead I used those CUTE mini Meiji choco boxes that have CUTE printings. The girls just finished 1 box, leaving the empty box on the dinning table. I was about to throw it away and realized it has got a few cute prints！I can't possibly keep and collect the empty box unless I want my all collection boxes to have ants as their permanent residents.
I cut out those cute prints that I want nicely, wiped with damp cloth and dried with kitchen paper. Layered both sides with scotch tapes and secured onto the picks with double-sided tapes. DONE！Now I have 7 new custom-made picks that you can't find anywhere. 

I find these picks too plain originally so I transformed them into my new flag picks 

Young toddlers can even learn their Alphabet from these custom-made picks while enjoying their Bentos！

My Bento Boxes

My hubby always says that I'm like a garang guni aka rubbish/trash collector because of all my seldom used, unused stuffs！Here are all my 'Rubbish' (Bento Boxes) that I bought this year. I've got some nice, cute lunch boxes, especially my favourite 'Baby Mickey & Minnie' lunch boxes but they are in the storage warehouse as my mom's house has got limited space for us to move EVERYTHING over from our previous flat (we sold it and now currently waiting for our new flat). 
Anyway, without those I get to buy all these cute new ones！ hee...

Hello Kitty Face-the last pc from KidzCottage, Black Square with Pink+White Flowery Bento Box from Japan Home (I've got 4 of this！),  Red 2Tier Typical Japanese Bento Box & Pinkish Birds+Flowers Bento Box from Daiso.

Sweetcorn Shaped 2Tier Bento Box from Popular Bookstore sales and 2 Cutlery Sets from KidzCottage.

Dora Heart Shaped 2Tier Bento Box come with Fork & Spoon from NTUC Supermarket. 

Dora Rectangle Shaped 2Tier Bento Box come with Fork & Spoon from NTUC Supermarket.

So far, I haven't use both Dora's bento boxes because they are quite big & bulky. I need to put quite alot of food in to fill them up which are too much for Messy and she's also VERY LAZY to hand-carry her bento box, rather SQUEEEEZED into her school bag！
As for Cheeky, obviously she DON'T even need to bring any food to school (ChildCare) because meals like breakfast, lunch and tea-break are provided with more than enough for all the kids not to mention such a big, bulky one... but I'll still make her a set to be fair and make her happy whenever I prepare bento for Messy.
 

More Bento Tools！

Today Messy came back from school and told me happily that she got full marks for her English spelling. All along I had this "Spellings Rules" imposed at home to motivate them in a way, another is because both of them are so lazy when it comes to studies (I believe majority are.. LOL) and all kiddos LOVE gifts, presents so I brought her to Daiso together with my mom. 
I wanted to get a few bigger food containers as mine are all too small and can't put too much food in. While browsing thru the things at the Kitchenware section, I saw these new food cutters and grabbed them immediately！

Food Cutters

Silicon Food Containers & Food Drawing Pen with 2 different sizes changeable tips. I LOVE the Penguin Food Containers & the Drawing Pen！ 

This is the electric-eraser that Messy always wanted when she saw it at my cousin's house. Finally she got it as her reward and chose another for Cheeky. 

When we got back home, my helper saw my new gadgets and told me : By the time we move to our new house, I'll need to use a BIG BOX to put all my tools！Hahaha

My New Bento Tools

U may call me crazy or spendthrift but I just can't resist myself from buying more and more bento tools and cute stuffs！Frankly, I don't make bento everyday neither will I use ALL the tools that I own but I just love to collect and hate the feeling of not having that particular thing when I need to use it, so I will buy, buy, buy and tell myself : I'm sure I'll use it and need it, even if it is not as often, I'm sure it will come in handy...

Hello Kitty Sushi Roll Set & Mini Hearts Sandwich Maker from J-Mama & Baby I ordered these thinking to myself that I can make more food and save time for parties, gatherings.

Multi-cutters with 3 different designs. Able to have more fun with other foods and not just Nori and sesame seeds anymore.

Mickey & Minnie Punch+Cutters+Molds and Multi-faces Shoe punch. These punchers are so much better than those I bought in Diaso, just one punch down and the Nori are so nicely cut.

Alphabet Cutters, Mini Alphabet Cutters, Hat Picks, Angel Wing+Bow Picks. Although they are the same-Alphabet Cutters but size difference！

Now I'm still waiting for my last batch of orders (hopefully) somewhere this mth-end or April.

My Newly Found Interest

I started with my very 1st bento this year in Jan 2011 when I saw my cousin's posting of her bentos for her kids in facebook and fell in love with it immediately！
I started to find relevant infos about bentos in YouTube, watched almost all videos for beginners！ The first thing that I learned was to make Tamagoyaki and Octodogs. I wrote down every ingredients, every steps and decided to start trying out few days later after I got the basic gadgets.
I went to NTUC supermarket searching high and low for those basic tools for making bentos but only managed to find some cookie cutters. Found some cute design punches from Japan home and went to the nearest Diaso to get more！

Messy was as excited as me when I told her about bentos and that I'm going to make for them. She went to Diaso with me and once we reached there, both of us were like going crazy over all their cute stuffs！ We only managed to get 1 nori face punch as the rest had already sold out, some cute picks, cookie cutters, rice molds and 2 lunchboxes ( 1 for her & 1 for Cheeky). Although not many things but we were happy with our buys.  

All these are my collections so far and there are more to come！

  Got them from Diaso, NTUC supermarket, Japan home, J-Mama & Baby, KidzCottage.