Bento2015#Apr24~Bento&Co Sandwich Bento 2015 Contest

Did you see the result from Bento&Co Sandwich Bento Contest at FB? My sandwich bento are among the 10 finalists! I was so excited to spot my sandwich at FB and couldn't believe it! This is my 3rd times to participate Bento&Co contest. Is a challenging and fun making whenever I decided to joined in the contest each year. 

So this year theme is about creating sandwich. If you follow my blog, I hardly make sandwiches bento for my daughter lunch. Pretty hard to think or create and the rules that Bento&Co looking for.... really need to do some homework on it! So this round, I focus on the sandwich. I love my sandwiches with eggs fillings so I get the idea of creating "EGGS" sandwiches ^_^ Different kind of eggs such as hard boiled eggs, century eggs and quail eggs! Yums! I toasted whole wheat bread and trim for the perfect sizes. Here's my sandwich ingredients:

•  6 pieces of whole wheat bread (toasted)
• 1 hard boiled egg (large and I use kampung egg)
• 1 century egg
• 2 quail eggs (for extra touch to make chicks)
• lettuce/tomatoes/cheese/mayonnaise
• orange and grapes as well cut out tomato rose for decoration

Not forgetting create some cute chicks but I focus on the sandwiches for taking photos. Because that's the main contest. Well, to create yellow quail egg simply soak at turmeric water and remember to stir. As for the other two-tone quail egg, I soak half and leave some white part. The dark brown color, I mix water and some black food colouring but after soaking the color wasn't black =_="

Arrange neatly for each sandwiches into the Monbento box and filled up the rest of the side dishes. Next, is the photo takings! I took countless shots.... really a lot and only can pick ONE for the contest. Oh gosh.... how I wish can submit more than one with different angles... hahaha....

Thank you for reading my posts and if you like my sandwich bento or view more delicious sandwiches bento from other finalists. Just click HERE to vote. Only one vote for per person and will end on April 27th (Monday). Thank you so much for your support and appreciate bottom of my heart. Hugs!

Congratulation to all 10 finalist and click HERE to view two winners ^_^ Super amazing!

Bento2014#Mar04~Bear Sandwiches

Something simple and light for today's lunch bento ^_^ I made ham, cheese and egg sandwiches with cute two bears sausage as decoration.  While taking photos noticed that female bear miss out lashes so below photo with lashes on it :)

Ingredients:

• Bread, ham, cheese, boiled egg (slices), lettuce and mayo
• Bear : mini sausages, ham as ears and cheese/nori for details

Here's the closer look of the two cute mini sausage bears ^_^

For side just a simple hard boiled egg using bear egg mould (lack of time to wait for a better bear shape as I took it out early), honey cherry tomato and mandarin oranges. Cute Rilakkuma contains some ketchup with mini spoon inside :p

I hope you all will have a beary nice Tuesday ^_^ 

Bento#Nov12~My Melody Wheat Wrap

Kids requested to have a simple lunch on every Tuesday. The only simple one will be making sandwiches but I saw some wheat wrap from supermarket so thought of give it a try. This is my first attempt to use the wheat wrap instead of roll with bread ^_^ I wrap with turkey ham, lettuce, capsicums (yellow & red) and mayonnaise. Then roll and wrap them to aluminium foil for oven toast 4 to 5 minutes. After toast, I removed the foil wrappers and wrap with My Melody foil ^_^

Here is the closer look of the wheat wraps ^_^ I made two wheat wraps for both of my children. In this My Melody bento box, one of toasted wheat wrap with "My Melody" aluminium foil and the other 2nd wheat wrap I slice into half. Arranged it and insert love picks on top then add My Melody baran sheet. 

For the 2nd tier of the My Melody bento box, I made boiled egg (cut into cube) mayonnaise with capsicums (yellow & red) and cucumber as salad. Carve apple leaf and checker apple for other side. Again I add cute My Melody baran sheet on top. I liked this bento box but only for small portion of food. You can see the whole bento box at the bottom of this post. I took some pictures!
   

I am so sorry for the over exposed photos due to early morning indoor photo takings in my kitchen. Even though I add extra lighting still cannot compare to natural outdoor sunlight =_=" Well, I hope you will like my simple lunch bento for today's post! Have a nice day to you all!

Here is the two tier My Melody lunch box. There is Hello Kitty design but I choose My Melody design during my previous Japan trips :p 

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Bento#Nov08~Cutezcute Animal Palz Mini Panda

Woohoo....finally open ceremony this new products from BentoUSA and CuteZCute ^_^ It's a animal friends food cutter and stamp kits comes with versatile and adorable bento tools set! So excited to show you in today's post. I choose "Mini Panda" Just love the cute designed of the Panda especially the baby panda :p Don't they looked lovely Panda Family? Haha...

Here is CuteZCute Animal Palz Tool box! Not just making sandwich but boiled egg too! 

So here's the four cute animal palz imprint press plates plus one baby panda press! All comes with 8 piece set (Sheep, Bat, Monkey & Panda). For more details can refer to BentoUSA LINK.

Let's meet Mama Panda with Baby Panda. I made mini panda sandwich spread with kaya and touched up with nori details ^_^ Next to Mama Panda, I add some Bangkok yummy pancake wraps (not sure what it call).

Bottom of Papa Panda was cream cake (bought) and flower marshmallows. Add some pretty panda picks and blue cap for Papa Panda.

Ta-da....CuteZCute Mini Panda sandwich for today's post ^_^ Can't wait to try out the rest of the animals :D I hope you will like it! Cheers!

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Hello Kitty Breakkie & Snack

Hello everyone! It's Happy Saturday ^_^ Finally I've the time to open ceremony my new collection~Cornell Sandwich Maker~ And the best part is imprint Hello Kitty!! Ever since the first blog post shared by LittleMissOnigiri from Bento Singapore Shirley, I told myself must get it and will wait for Cornell Malaysia to sell it. Few days later saw more of these Kitty sandwiches made by others too! Gosh....the temptation grows higher!!!! So the best way is to drive in Singapore and thanks to my dearest sister's family that I brought along my girl to joined them and bought it home with us!

~Cornell Hello Kitty Sandwich Maker~

Just made a simple kaya and butter spread for my girl's sandwich. She asked for more so I made another set for her today's Catechism Church lesson.

I packed them into the bento box and filled up the silicon food cup with some grapes, cherry tomato and Hello Kitty gummy inside the small HK sauce container ^_^ I hope you will like it too as I'm way too excited of making them as well! Haha.... 

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Bento#Sept05~Let's be FRIENDS!

Today I'm sharing bento snack instead of lunch! This is today's bento school snack that I've made for my girl ^_^ After the school open, she met new friends! Especially a girl from Japan :) So this gave me an idea of making "Let's be Friends" bento snack! My girl joined in the fun with me as she wants to hand-on! 

Here is the bento tools I've used. Just need two different type of flavor cheese, nori seaweed, bread and your kids favourite jams!

Very simple bento snack! The only tricky part will be freehand scissor cut out the nori seaweed for hair :p I like freehand scissor!!! Hehehe.... Two friends with two different flavor that I spread chocolate & strawberry. Both cheese girls on top of the peanut butter sandwich with pretty flower wax paper. Some cherry tomato and matcha mochi! I hope you will like this simple ideas ^_^

Bento#July12~Lion Sandwiches Bento

Yesterday at Facebook saw Rie's Bento and Cooking fan page posted sandwiches bento. Very good ideas of using cling wrap to wrap the sandwich and tie with pretty ribbons. I'm sure most of you already well known her awesome bento works! So here is my kids school bento snack, inspired by Rie. I made "Lion Sandwiches" with eggs, mayonnaise, tomato and cucumber (balance of the salad at the side food cup). I used flower cutter (2 different sizes) to made the sandwiches after adding the egg salad. On top of the sandwich, I made "Lion" eggsheet, nori and smoked ham. I also add sweet pea for some green touch :)

Apricot and strawberry as well as the balance egg salad mayonnaise with honey cherr tomato roses and cucumber leaves ^_^

I hope you will this "Lion Sandwiches Bento" and I'm looking forward for the weekend ^_^ Yay....no morning wake up call etc.... Cheers!

Bento#July01~Singing Bone Hello Kitty

Last week was the last McDonald Singing Bone Hello Kitty collection in Singapore!!! My sister and I didn't managed to collect the Ugly Duckling HK so this final piece HK my sister's hubby was so sweet that he drove in Singapore before midnight and queue to purchased ^_^ I am thankful to my brother in law ^_^ So here I made "Singing Bone Hello Kitty" sandwich for my daughter bento snack :) 

I traced out HK and scissor cut together with nori then add on top of the cheese. As you can see one of the bone was bigger due to I missed out and forgot to cut =_=" So I have to used toothpick to slowly trim out from the cheese. To made the ribbon, I used toothpick to trim out the cheese then add crushed pink fondants. Little black cat also followed the same step as HK method but paste on egg sheet.

The background of the houses and bat were freehand scissor cut out nori (lazy to trace so do it freely) Underneath I add tuna sandwich and add egg sheet on top. 

I hope you will like this "Singing Bone Hello Kitty" bento snack ^_^ Finally finished all 6 different Hello Kitty themes except two of them were made last year. If you missed out or like to see the rest of the McDonald Hello Kitty bentos. Please click the link below:

• Wizard Of Oz The Lion
  
• Mc Delivery Witch Hello Kitty
• Little Red Riding Hood
• The Frog Prince
• Ugly Duckling
• Singing Bone

Thank you so much for all the "LIKE" at my Facebook page or Instagram. You all were the BEST!
Here I shared my Singing Bone at the link below "What's For Lunch Wednesday" from BentoLunch.Net's blog! 
 

Bento#June11A~Bunnies Sausages Bun

Hmmm....what's for snack bento? I still have left over buns so I'm making egg mayo/tomato sandwiches bun. As for the theme bento.....bunnies!!! Just made simple bunny design using sausages ^_^

Do you like it?? Hehe....I asked my daughter to hold on the picks while I took some photos of it :p After the photo takings, my girl actually told me: "Mummy, after you've done...can I eat them?"

Bunny made from sausage and cheese plus nori for eyes/nose/mouth. I add pink flower pick to secured together with the sandwich bun. 

Blue flower pick for another bunny ^_^ 

I hope you will like this simple bento snack with cute bunnies sausages decoration on top :) Cheers!

Bento#June05A~Hello Kitty Bread Snack

Today's snack I thought of making quick easy bento by using my new Hello Kitty cookies cutters! So I asked my girl to helped out and she picked this flower shape cutter for her snack bento. Recently her school break time adjusted and she complained not enough time to finished her snack if I packed too much. In the other hand, she said not full because the food so little if packed less =_="Oh dear.....what should mummy do?

A closer view of the cute Hello Kitty Flower shape bread with peanut butter fillings. Looks like her bento snack can let her do on her own ^_^ After done all three breads, I wanted to showed her how to put into the bento box but then off she go cause of her favourite shows started. Gosh....

Here is my new Hello Kitty cutters that I bought from Singapore. Don't you think all of them are so cute ^_^

This bento snack can made less than 5 minutes ^_^ I hope you will like this quick and easy bento snack! Cheers!