Bento#136: Little Red Riding Hood and The Lamb & The Wolf

19. March 2009, 21:17 UhrAnimal Theme, Bento, Bento Preparation, Story Themeshoppingmum6 comments

For those who’s been asking about me, I’m fine. Thanks! It will be days before I can remove the stitches, but I’ve slowly “gone back to my old self”. :)

Today’s bentos are meant for dinner, but I started preparing by noon. I had Little Red Riding Hood in mind for my gal and my boy wanted The Lamb and The Wolf (the same story as Bento#129). So I drew and colored the wolves first and my kids helped me to stick the wolves onto the toothpicks.

When my kids are taking their nap, I continued with the cooking part. When it’s about time for dinner, I started packing the food into bentos. I managed to snap some photos during the process, but I could not remember to show all the tools used for Little Red Riding Hood bento. Sorry about that… :P

For Little Red Riding Hood:


I prepared the rice with a sushi mold and wrapped one of them with nori and the other one with a layer of artificial crab meat. The onigiri on the left Little Red Riding Hood, who had fringe cut from nori, and the other one is her granny.

 


Then, I packed some soy sauced chicken (deboned for my kids’ convenience), a piece of blanched broccoli and a mini wiener.

 

More details were added for the Little Red Riding Hood and her granny too.

 

For The Lamb and The Wolf:


Here’s how I started packing.

 


I cut a piece of ham for the lamb’s face with this cutter. Just turn the same cutter over to cut off the ears of the bunny ham and you will get the oval shape.

 


I added fluffy wool and eyes with cheese (you can replace cheese with egg sheet).

 


More details added for the lamb.

So, here are the bentos:


My gal’s Little Red Riding Hood, with her granny. The wolf is dead, just like in the story. :P

 


My boy’s bento with The Lamb and The Wolf. His wolf is smiling cunningly because it ate the lamb in the end.

 

As you can see, I packed some blueberries, carrots and baby corns as fillers and decoration too.

I would submit the bentos to Kid’s Bento Contest by Susan Yuen. If you are interested, let’s join in the fun! The contest ends by March 31st, 2009, so you better hurry up! Please check out the link for more info ya?

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6 comments:

  1. Angeleyes, 20. March 2009, 19:35

    wah…. you even go to the extent to draw the picks! :P
    Hope you’ll win with your entry!

     
  2. javapot, 20. March 2009, 19:42

    wow…well done, very nice indeed. u r definitely back to your top form :D

     
  3. shoppingmum, 21. March 2009, 18:54

    Angeleyes, let’s cheer for all of us who take part. :)

    Javapot, thanks! But I will still pack lesser bentos during school break.

     
  4. 3lilangels, 23. March 2009, 15:47

    Beautiful and depict the stories perfectly. What a great entry!

     
  5. khongfamily, 23. March 2009, 19:03

    Wow…great bentos! Got nice hand-drawn picks as well :D . Hope you will win the contest. One question…when they eat during dinner, their food is still warm or cold? You pre-pack the rice first?

     
  6. shoppingmum, 24. March 2009, 13:16

    Khongfamily, it’s cold, but I heated the bentos by placing them on the top shelve of the rice cooker for one or 2 minutes. The lunch boxes can stand up to 120 deg, as written. But I forgot to remove the cheese first, just make sure that you take out the cheese or use eggsheets, if you want to reheat the food. I should get some stainless steel bentos when I go shopping next time. I saw a few designs by Sanrio.