Bento #237 - The Carefree Ladybugs

Monday, 15th November 2010
This week is the last week of school then comes the year end long holiday. Not sure if I will fix bento during school holiday, perhaps this week might be my last week of bento making... Isaac is going to primary 1 next year, he has to leave the house as early as 6:45am. If I were to prepare bento for him, that means I need to wake up probably at 5:30am? Can I sacrify my one hour sleep? Hmmm......

I have three choices:
1) Wake up as usual, prepare bento for Isaac, send him to school then only I dress up myself and have a great breakfast with hubby.
2) Wake up as usual, don't have to prepare bento, get myself ready (dress up + breakfast), send him to school then go direct to office, start work earlier and come back earlier in the evening.
3) Wake up one hour ealier, prepare bento, get myself ready, send him to school then go direct to office, start work earlier and come back earlier in the evening.

Let's see how things going first, how soon I can get use of the life chance (~.~).....

Bento #217 - Fluttering Butterfly

Bento #198 - A Married Couple from Pond

Went RT Cake House to buy chiffon cake yesterday noon after Isaac's dance performance at MIECC The Mines. Well, all the chiffon cakes were completely sold out. I can't go home empty-handed as the journey to Taman Desa took me about 20 minutes for a round trip. Isaac picked a pandan layer cake from the fridge.

I cut a small thin piece of the pandan layer cake for Isaac last night and he loves it so much, asked me to give him a bigger slice today. Tell you quietly, my boy first time eat pandan layer cake...kekekeke... Green, what can I do with the green layer? Froggie is the best, simple and quick. I cut out the top layer of the pandan cake, use a bear shape cutter to cut two frogs. I packed some golden kiwi into the bento box too. This expensive fruit, now selling in market at price of four for RM10 (!_!)

Bento #180 - It's Spring ...

Spring is a busy season for bees, they are busy collecting nectar and then make them into honey. Today I sent two bees to assist thier gang in completing the task. But bad me, I forgot to put thier wings on!! Previous Bee Bento, I didn't realize the bees have no wing until Isaac asked me after back from school. Therefore this time I reminded myself not to forget the little wing. Hmm.... I am getting older... signnnnn..........


Postscript: Hapabento's May B.O.M.B Contest is flower. I think this bento is qualified to enter, I will summit it, it's my first time participating this type of contest... (^.^)

Bento #164 - Fly Little Ladybug

After honeybee is little ladybug. I have been trying to make Isaac love cheese more, but seems like no progress so far. When I told him I gonna fix him bento using cheese, he again negotiated with me, asked to replace cheese with egg (~_~). I thought this time he will bring back a complete ladybug for me. Surprising he finished all!! OK I promised will try to reduce cheese but not totally omit. I don't know what else I can use if not cheese, at least now I can swap between cheese and egg and once a while ham (-_-).

Bento #163 - Honeybee March

The bees were made from egg roll. Let me briefly describe how I prepare the egg roll, I totally forgot to snap some photos during the preparation until last egg roll was taken out from pan.

Well mix the egg the pan-fry it, just like how we prepare egg sheet. When it is almost cook, off the stove and put some chicken floss on top and roll it over. I don't know does it make any difference if I put chicken floss on the egg sheet after it is cooling down. (-_-)

I then cut the egg roll into small piece and decorate it as honeybee. I packed some tomato into the sauce container I just bought last week. It comes with another three small size bottle, but with apple (or maybe is tomato) as the lid. Cute, I love this sauce containers.

Close shot on the egg roll. Try it out, simple to prepare and nice to eat, but abit unhealthy as it is pan-fry.

Bento #122 - Butterfly

Bento #119 - Caterpillar Heimlich

If you watched A Bug's Life movie, then Caterpillar Heimlich will not sound strange to you. Haha... I agree the bento doesn't look like Heimlich, but.... it's just a name for the caterpillar (@_@).

Bento #105 - 小小虫儿飞

Bento #83 - Dragonfly

Some tomato sauce in mini banana & strawberry sauce container.

Bento #53 - Smiley Snail

Feel like eating Chicken Floss Swiss roll. Travel all the way to Taman Desa, my favourite cake shop - RT House. No luck to eat, only left green tea, sesame, coffee and chocolate swiss roll. Isaac chose chocolate flavour.

So I decided to make snail bento for Isaac. Source of this idea is from shoppingmum - snail bento. Again it's a speedy bento, only nori cutting takes me more time. The eyes and cheek were cut from artificial crab meat. By the way, if you are looking for Carla Craft "Expression" puncher, one of the bento Mama - Arlene is selling it now. She got it directly from supplier. Do check it out, it is really useful in bento-ing.

You might wonder how I close the bento. This is how I close it, I removed the orange and push the snail down. It fits nicely in the Pikachu bento box. :) Where is the orange then? It's in my fridge, I just used it for photo snapping as the orange doesn't taste good.... ^_^

Bento #38 - Caterpillar

My prince asked me to fix him a caterpillar yesterday night. I think it would be quite simple to fix, but I still woke up slightly early than usual, to avoid panic if I get unexpected result.

Pretty simple bento, slightly plain... hehehe...



My heart broke when Isaac told me that he doesn't want to bring this bento to school. He wanted to bring jacket, but his bag is too heavy, so I told him to bring tomorrow, then I don't fix him bento tomorrow (to reduce the weight, although a bento doesn't make much different). But he wanted so much to bring his jacket, so he rather forgoes the lovely bento, which I have put in so much love :(

Honestly, I am not quite happy, I think it's time for me to stop bento-ing for awhile. Things that get it easily is hardly being appreciated. What do u think????

Bento #30 - Ladybug

These two days Isaac is at DaYi house as ErYi is away for few days. Charmaine likes Isaac's bento, and I promised to make one for them. I made something more challenging as it is school holiday, I don't need to dress up Isaac in case running out of time. Again, this idea is from shoppingmum- Ladybug bento. I went to Popular warehouse sales at Summit USJ, so tried to get brocolli and mango from Cold Storage, unfortunately cannot find there.

I don't really satisfied with the end result. Again, I think I need a multiface nori cutter. Will try to get one as soon as possible. I am not good in arranging bento, need to put more effort in that. Hehehe... anyway, good try! (^0^)


Left: The 3 bentos that I have prepared
Right: Charmaine's bento


Left: Charlaine's bento
Right: Isaac's bento