Mothering Corner

I seldom ask my gal what she wants for her bento because I know that she wants either Hello Kitty, My Melody or Marie the Cat. I haven’t tried Marie the Cat as I don’t have the cutters, and it’s very time consuming doing it free hand from cheese and nori. But last night, she told me that she wanted My Melody as I haven’t done it for days (or weeks?). As usual, I try my best to please the kids, when it comes to packing their bentos.

But the thing is, I was out of bread! Thus, I tried to fix her My Melody from fish balls.

Use a bunny cutter and cut out the shape from kamaboko. I was running out of ham. You can use ham or carrot for its ears as well.

Turn the cutter around and cut off the bottom part of the bunny.

 
Use a thin spaghetti strip to secure the kamaboko to the fish ball.

There you go…And I joined 2 fish balls together with a long pick, which is given by CP.

 
I continued with the cutie details, and if you are wondering how I pin a tiny piece of corn to the faces, it’s spaghetti strips again! See the difference? My Melody already had her nose, but Hello Kitty had only the spaghetti strip, where a small piece of corn was added on later.

After that’s it’s more about packing fruits and everything in her Hello Kitty lunch box.

My gal will have fish balls, a small piece of corn, some Thai oranges, mangoes and sweet potatoes today. I packed her some ketchup for the fish balls too.

This is the first time I packed sweet potatoes for my kids. My boy had no problem taking sweet potatoes.In fact, he took the remaining sweet potato as breakfast today. But for my gal, I’m not too sure. Let’s see if she will finish her bento or not…

My boy wanted me to prepare him a panda, and so I did. I added in Winnie the Pooh to one of the seafood balls because it looked yellowish. Not sure if it’s a sotong ball?

My boy’s Pooh bento box, with the same bento meal in different arrangement. Edited: Oops, I forgot to add eye balls for panda. LOL! Now it looks a bit weird…

I don’t have Winnie the Pooh puncher, so most of the details are done free hand. That’s why Winnie the Pooh doesn’t look alike. LOL!

Thus, today’s bentos are quite time consuming because I spent some time cutting the nori for Winnie the Pooh. How I wish I can just photocopy Winnie’s face with a receipt printer and print on nori, or get its puncher or those ready-to-eat Pooh bear nori from Japan! That will be very convenient to me!