Mothering Corner

Hubby’s down with flu bug, but I don’t want our kids to catch the virus. So, I packed more fruits for them today to boast their immunity. *crossing my fingers*

At the same time, I packed some strawberry jam rolls, and to make the bentos more attractive, I topped the rolls with My Melody and Winnie the Pooh. Here’s how they are done…

I cut the base for Winnie the Pooh with its sandwich cutter from cheese, and did the same for My Melody with its cutter from a piece of ham.

For My Melody, I cut another tiny piece of cheese with the Pooh cutter. You can do this with any oval cutters, but I was too lazy to dig out the cutter box.

Then, cut off the horizontal base line with My Melody cutter, so that it can be placed on the ham.

I hope that you get what I mean. LOL! I’m not good at writing tutorial, and if possible, I prefer to show you how it’s done visually.

Lightly press the pattern cutter on the leftover piece of ham.

Can you see the line of the ear, done by the pattern cutter? Then, use My Melody cutter again to cut out the ear. You can also use a knife, it should work the same.

Place the tiny piece of ear on My Melody. I added a piece of smoked cheese as nose too.

After that, it’s all about punching and cutting the details from nori and carrot. So, here’s my gal’s bento today…

My Melody with strawberry jam rolls, a tangerine, and some kiwi, mango, cantaloupe melon, and carrot cut in flowery shape. The eyes are too small huh?

As for Winnie the Pooh, I used the paw puncher to form the eyes and nose. Then, I punched a few “smiles” with the smiley puncher to form the eyebrows and lips.

My boy’s Tomica bento with Winnie the Pooh, and the same bento meal as his sister.

Pretty simple huh?

I know that it’s a bit late to say Happy New Year now but it’s my first bento for 2009.

 After more than a week of vacation, I lost my speed in preparing and packing. It took me an hour to fix today’s bento, and luckily my gal woke up late. In today’s bento, there’s a piece of ham sandwich in each lunch box, and it’s topped with nori. The letters were cut with alphabet cutters and cheese. There are some kiwi and blueberries too. Since it’s the year of ox, I slipped in a quail egg, which supposed to look like a bull.

My kids will have bananas too, but I could only slot one in this banana carrying case from Daiso. I thought it was too big, but who knows? The banana by Dales are quite big too! So, maybe I should get another banana carrying case…

My vacation is over, even if I’m a bit reluctant about it. LOL!

My boy asked me why I didn’t prepare him bento when we went for our second half of vacation, which was just 2 hours drive from Bangkok. I asked him why must I prepare bento, and he said, “You HAVE TO prepare bento for us, we NEED TO EAT in the car.” See? That’s how demanding my little boy is.

But the lazy mommy didn’t do anything, so daddy had to get them some snacks from the rest area on the journey. In fact, he bought them anything they wanted to eat! Gee….my hubby is such a junk food lover, besides being addicted to golf and sports gifts la. That’s why I die die also pack food for my kids so that it minimizes their chances of having junks.

So, with school starts on Monday, I will get back to preparing bentos as their afternoon tea. After more than a week of “retiring” from bento, I’m a bit clueless of what to pack.