Mothering Corner

Hubby informed me a day before that it’s going to be a long day at the office for the kids. Thus, I packed more as I usually do on Saturdays. Sometimes I wonder if I should just enroll my kids into extra classes instead of spending the whole day in the office? They get bored after awhile, and even if the food keeps them occupied, they still tend to disturb the others.

Anyway, I prepared some rice for them today. I kept away some stir fried capsicums, asparagus, and carrots for dinner last night and reheated the dish in the morning. For the first time, my kids ate capsicums last night! Previously, I used the wrong words and told them capsicums are sweet peppers. Upon hearing the word peppers, they thought it’s spicy and refused to try. Thus, I told them it’s capsicum instead. Kids ah…why so “hard” sometimes? LOL!

When the rice was boiling, I placed some broccoli, carrot and a corn cob in the steamer of the rice cooker. It’s more convenient doing so. At the same time, the oven was busy roasting some pork ribs. When everything was cooked and cooled down, I started packing.

I found that it’s not easy to use the rice mould. I’m kind of rusty with it as I seldom use them. My boy requested a bear bear rice while my girl wanted ABC rice. Gosh, they are getting more demanding. LOL! But I’m enjoying it. So here’s the end result…

My gal’s ABC bento

I don’t have the alphabet cutter yet, so I had to cut them out from nori and cheese. The mixed veggie was placed in a paper cup while the roasted pork in 2 bear shaped silicon cups. A quail egg was decorated as a bee (very ugly, I know) and I slipped in some carrots, a broccoli, another quail egg and a grape to fill in the gap.

 My boy’s bento had almost the same food but a mini sausage to fill in the gap.

Some time after we reached our office, the kids asked for their bentos. My girl went for the grape first, and closed her lunch box after that. Same goes for my boy, he ate some rice and kept the bento away until an hour later. I actually prefer them to eat all at one time, instead of opening and closing the lunch box in fear of contamination. Nonetheless, they are always excited to see what’s in the boxes!

On second round, both of them finished 80% of the food. Some went to their baby cousin who loves anything. LOL! I really like to see how a baby eats. My gal used to eat like this, just feed her anything and she will finish it. But recently, she doesn’t like veggie. Broccoli is the only green veggie she takes, and she will only eat the top part. *slap head* I’m still trying hard to get her back to eating greens instead of being a carnivore! However, she loves fruits. My kids also take a bottle of Yakult and a yogurt drink everyday, so they don’t have constipation.

For afternoon snack, my kids will have these…

In each lunch box, there are some grapes, a piece of corn, a mini burger and a piece of sapodilla (nicely cut by the fruit stall lady!)

 Sapodilla is very sweet, and my kids love it. I’m glad that the lady already cut them in such a nice shape. But if you would like to cut it into something similar, I guess you can try it out with the egg cutter. I haven’t tried it though, let me know if it works!