A Bento Set A Day

Here's yet another Bento set prepared for my kiddos...



Grilled salmon with butter and garlic, Terriyaki chicken and sushi, washed down with a mug of murberry-beet root-carrot-apple juice, with grapes as starter and Rocky sticks for dessert.
And no, I am not that ambitious and I don't have the luxury of time (though I would love to) to whip up such a luxurious lunch for my kiddos. It's my hubs and his chefs who cooked up the storm, for one of his customer's functions for that day. I heart days like this, when my hubs sends his staff to deliver hot food to our doorstep, for I don't have to get myself all sweaty and have my face, hands and clothes tainted with choking cooking oil :D

Healthy Lunch Box

This is what I prepared for Alycia's lunch box yesterday:


Purple seedless grapes, sweet navel oranges, My Melody shaped and Pooh Bear shaped sandwiches with organic black sesame bread spread and kaya. Though the food was very little, Alycia my slow eater could only finish the sandwiches during her recess. She finished the fruits in the hospital. We had to bring Baby C to SJMC yesterday and Aly and Sher had to tag along.



Since Sherilyn was still having high fever, she skipped school again. I prepared some sandwiches for her too but the cute shaped sandwiches did not whet her appetite at all. These 3 cutie sandwiches went into my tummy.



What a waste if I were to throw the odds and ends and skin into the bin right? So I wiped off the plate of leftover bread. I don't normally eat white bread coz they are fattening but I'm the type who hates to see food go to waste. So you see, that's why I'm still carrying my jelly belly though Baby C is already 9 months, haiz....

My Girls' Lunch Boxes

With only less than 5 minutes to prepare Alycia and Sher's lunch boxes each morning, I can only afford to prepare them simple food like cut fruits, sandwiches, fried eggs and biscuits. Today, I gave them something light since it's still orientation and school dismissed at 10:30am. Here's what they had today:


Oranges and Kiwi fruit, sea creatures biscuits and fish muruku. The Minnie Mouse lunch box with oranges is Alycia's. Sher who is an extremely slow eater prefers kiwi fruits as it's easier for her to chew and swallow.


This fish muruku is actually my junk food. It's my all-time favorite junk food. It's made of Australian dhall powder and fish powder. It doesn't contain MSG and is not very high in carbo.... tastes very yummy too! My 2 wai sek mau saw me eating them and requested to try some. Now, they are hooked on them, just like their mummy!

This box of sea creatures biscuits are made in Japan. Daddy bought it for them from a Korean mart at our neighborhood.

Bento Tools

A new 100 Yen shop has just opened near where I stay. So I popped by the shop the other day and got these :

a double-decker lunch box



a pack of 3 little dainty lunch box, to be placed in larger lunch boxes. I prefer these to silicon cups or bento cups as they come with a cover, thus the food will not spill. Everything costs just RM4.90 and there were heaps of nice lunch boxes and pretty chopsticks! However, there aren't other bento stuff that I am looking for like silicon cups, lunch box straps, food picks, baran, sausage weiner, etc.



And these are from my sil. She bought these for me from Singapore - a silicon fried egg/pancake mould in the shape of a bird, cookie cutters and a star-shaped and heart-shaped egg mould.

Healthy Lunch Box

Pooh Bear shaped pan-fried eggs, green grapes and Pooh Bear shaped honey plum.


That's Alycia's lunch box yesterday. I thought my slow eater would not be able to finish all the food in her lunch box but she did. The food here may seem very little for most kids her age, but my slow eater can't even finish these on most days, as 10-15 minutes of recess time is too rush for Alycia, who eats quite slowly.

Alycia seems to be eating quite a lot lately, so much that it really worries me. After lunch or dinner (btw, she eats more than me), she would ask for desserts, ranging from cheeze dippers to cheese wedges, biscuits, cakes, yoghurt (she can even finish 1 cup of yoghurt after dinner!), banana, cherry tomatoes, etc. and 1 full glass of water! Hopefully she won't balloon up into a tai fei poh lol!

Healthy Lunch Boxes

With a recess time of only 10-15 mins, Alycia and Sherilyn can't eat much and they often reject anything more than a bun or a few slices of cut fruits. So this is what I prepared for Alycia on Monday and Tuesday :

A butter bun (cut into 3 easy-to-eat slices) and honey plum in the shape of Winnie The Pooh.


Edamame beans and oranges. Alycia could not even finish these and brought home half the beans and oranges back to eat. Both my girls are really slow eaters.

My First Try In Making Bento Eggs For Kids

and it turned out quite well. The eggs I used were kampung chicken eggs (free-range chicken eggs) and though they were a tad too big for the egg mould, nonetheless it turned out quite well. I used a spoon to scrape off the extra egg whites outside the mould. Alycia and Sherilyn were really tickled pink to see their hard-boiled eggs in the shape of a car and a fish! Too bad the Winnie The Pooh egg mould that I had initially ordered were all sold out, otherwise the gals would also have Pooh Bear shaped hard-boiled eggs for breakfast and to bring to school.

My New Bento Tools Finally Arrived

My bento tools ordered from http://www.nst.my/ finally arrived today after a wait of almost a month for the shipment to arrive from Japan. Alycia and Sher were very thrilled to see those bento stuff, especially the sauce pens. Alycia kept asking me to draw this and that with jams and sauces on her food! She even asked me if she could draw a party hat on her rice by herself lol! I shall start having fun with those tools tomorrow!

Healthy Lunch Box

Alycia requested to bring Edamame beans to school yesterday and I microwaved a handful for her. She also requested for oranges, so I gave her half a small orange, peeled. However, she brought home the lunch box with her food almost untouched. I guess she must have spent too much time peeling the soya beans and the 10 mins of recess was just too short for her to finish her food. I am really amazed with how some pre-schoolers can polish off a bento box filled with a hearty meal.

Hello Kitty Bento Lunch Box

This is the Hello Kitty Bento lunch box that my sil bought for Alycia from Takashimaya, Singapore. It's Alycia's very first lunch box and I hope to add on to the collection. She does not really need one now as she only needs to bring a small lunch box to pre-school, which consists of light snacks. She will definitely need one when she goes to primary school. But I am really bitten by the Bento lunch box and tools bug that has bitten many mommy bloggers.

With a cool ice pack, I can even pack a cup of yoghurt or some cut fruits for Alycia in future to bring to school.

My Melody Cookie / Bread Cutter

The Bento lunch box and Bento tools bug has bitten me. I am starting to go crazy over these stuff. I got infected when I read the blog of LZMommy, Blessed Mum of 3 and AllThingsPurple. I love to see the Bento boxes they prepare for their kids and cute tools they bought.

So before my sil and brother from Singapore came to KL last week, I asked them to help me look for Bento boxes and tools. They managed to get a set of Sanrio My Melody cookie / bread cutter, Hello Kitty bento box , a Strawberry Shortcake lunchbox and some cute cutlery for the gals from Takashimaya. I am still looking for the egg moulds and food picks and I saw them for sale at eBay. I find buying things from eBay rather troublesome, so I'll wait for AllThingsPurple's friend to bring those stuff from Japan and I'll buy them from her. Are you hit by the Bento bug too?