Bento#80
I had some time to kill this morning so I decided to come out the another tutorial. This is a simple bento meal, especially for mothers who like to pack bread for children. I think it’s more practical to pack bread instead of rice, due to our norm here. But then, it seems like you can do more with rice as shown in Japanese bento blogs.
I don’t think my kids can eat a lot as usual yet, so I only packed each of them a piece of jam sandwich again. To make it more attractive, I decided to do some color contrast, with a bunny in the middle of the sandwich.
This is the bunny cutter I used. You can easily do this with bread in different colors.
I used this cutter to form the ears by cutting an oval shape from a piece of ham.
Here are the ears for my bunnies.
But then, I suddenly remembered Mommy Moon asking me who to decorate Hello Kitty? 
Actually, it’s all about the same for any character.
If you have this multi cutters of ribbon, flower, star and etc, you can easily cut out the decorative details. I used kamaboko for the flower, but you can use anything such as wiener, carrot or ham too.
I removed one of the ears of a bunny, that bunny is obviously for my gal. At the same time, I cut the noses from cheese.
I placed the sandwiches in the lunch boxes, then added in the eyes and noses punched from nori.
So, here’s the end result:
I added some cherries, strawberries, grapes and local Thai oranges in their Melody and Shinkansen lunch boxes. *Oops, my gal’s bunny ear slid off a bit*
Some mothers are worried about wasting food in the process of preparing cute bentos, but I try to pack the excess fruits in another lunch box for hubby and me.
Fruity bento for hubby and me, without any cutie detail. LOL!
As for the cheese and ham, I would normally wrap them in food wrapper and refrigerate them in a Lock and Lock container. Try to dispose them if you can’t finish in days.
hi, thanks for your detailed tutorial.anyhow, where do you get the pink & green cutter? i find them quite useful.
Lisa, I got it from http://market.wchpeng.com/, but it seems like out of stock now. You can email the store owner, CP and see if she will restock.
amy, when i look at all your bentos, i feel so bad, coz until now i’m yet to do anything for them, really a lazy bum mummy
Hello, I’ve been reading your post for quite some time now and I decided to drop my 1st comment/question :p How do you stick those designs on the bread? Do you just place them on top or you actually have some edible glue to make sure it sticks to its place and not moving off?
shoppingmum, thanks again for sharing. This is very useful tips.
Oh ya, i have order the multi cutters from chooi peng already.
I just wondering, can i get any “colourful” bread in KL?
Kiasumum, aiyo, as long as we pack food and our kids like it, no need cutie details everyday la. LOL!
HL, you can try with some butter. I found that by spreading some butter on the seaweed, it helps to stick it on the surface.
Annie Q, I’m not quite sure about it as I am staying in Bangkok now. But you can try white bread and wholemeal bread. I think some bakery shops have milk, yam, chocolate and all different types of loaf breads too, maybe you can give it a try, as long a the thickness is about the same. But if it’s different, I think a protruding character in the middle of the bread will look good too.
Thank you for sharing and I really like to read your bento post!
well.. that solve half of my curiousity on making the nori stick to the bread. what about the ways of maneuver the nori “to” the bread? you use toothpicks?
Mummy Moon, you are welcome!
Ai Keat, I use a pair of tweezers, the type which is used for holding beads for arts. But I think toothpick can work too, if you manage to stick the nori up, maybe with some butter?
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