Mothering Corner

I know that meat floss is unhealthy, but my boy has been asking for meat floss for some time. He wanted meat floss in his bento, and funnily, I hardly pack meat floss. Coincidentally, I saw Spunkz and 3lilangels packed meat floss in their bentos too. Maybe I already use wiener and ham frequently, so I try my best to limit processed food. But anyway, as long as my kids eat proper well balanced meals at school and at home, I try to let go a bit when it comes to bento meals. Thus, I bought a pack of meat floss for my boy yesterday, and decided to make him happy. It’s still better than them eating all those junks offered by the office staffs!!!

At the same time, I had a busy morning today, and we had to get out from the house before 8am. This is another speedy bento, and it only took me less than 10 minutes to get both bentos done.

My boy’s bento with meat floss sandwich, some oranges and grapes.

I decorated the sandwich as a lion face.

My gal has a teddy bear, and another teddy bear (cut from the bread) peeping behind the sandwich.

 I will try my best to show some of you who asked me about how I got the cutie details done. Some of you are wondering how to stick the cheese or nori on the surface. Most of the time, I will just leave them there and nori can easily stick on cheese. But if the cheese keeps falling off, use some butter. I did that for the red heart on the teddy bear. Can you see? It’s actually a heart shape cut from artificial crab meat.

A closeup of the peeping teddy bear.

You can use some butter to stick the piece together. I would suggest that you use a toothpick, if you only need a tiny amount of butter. See? The cheese won’t fall off.

I guess I’ve answered most of the questions from the comments, except Ai Keat, who is interested to know how to cut the ham flower. I know some bento blogs already shown the steps (you may drop your post URL here for Ai Keat, THANKS!!!). I will try to show the steps, when I have ham in my fridge! Wait ya, Ai Keat.

Another thing is, if you kid can’t eat ham, wiener or cheese, especially those highly allergy food, you can substitute them with other alternatives. Exp: Cheese  => Zucchini, white bread, pear and etc, as long as the color comes close to white; Artificial crab meat (red) with carrot or capsicum, and etc. When it comes to cutie details, most of the time we just want to have some colors. I’m not sure if anyone is allergy with nori, if so, just use chocolate fudge with these pens. Again, I got mine from CP’s store, and if you are interested, please email her for more info.