Here are the sample bento boxes we made at home in the days before school started.
1. bear&flower-shaped rice balls, chicken nuggets, soybeans, tofu & strawberries
2. heart-shaped spam musubi, deviled egg, baby carrots, pears & blueberries
3. ham&cheese rolls, baby carrots, clementine & flower-shaped cucumbers
4. flower-shaped cheese quesadillas, chicken nuggets, soybeans & ranch dip
5. teriyaki meatballs, string cheese, heart&butterfly-shaped cucumbers & fuji apple
So then school starts. I'm totally geared up for a complete display of devastation. I'm all ready to be emotionally damaged and see my baby girl scream bloody murder because she's just not ready to be away from home. WRONG! Turns out, she LOVES school! She has only cried one time, and that was because she didn't want to LEAVE school. She wakes up ready for her day and so excited to go "see her friends" and "talk to her aunties(teachers)." I think it was seriously harder on me than it was on her! Seeing how independent she is becoming just after two short weeks of school makes me so PROUD (a little bit sad, empty & dead inside, but mostly so PROUD). I do miss her throughout the day, but I always look forward to seeing her light up when she tells me how much fun she's had.
Anyway, so far, she's had three home-lunches. Next week starts every day home-lunch. Here's what we made so far. I need to start waking up early, because bentos made at 7am in 5 minutes or less just don't look as cute! I'll work on that. :)
August 10th: grapes, clementine, ham&cheese rolls, flower-shaped cucumber,
string cheese, taro bread &milk
August 14th: rice w/furikake & teriyaki meatballs in her HK thermos, grapes, blueberries
& edamame in her bento box
August 16th: hear-shaped crab/cream cheese sushi w/extra crab, watermelon jello w/peaches,
blueberries, baby carrots & flower-shaped cucumbers
If you're thinking about making bentos for your kids, my VIP bento aid would definitely have to be cookie cutters. Oh, and re-useable silicone baking cups. Those two things and some tupperware, you're good to go!
In other non-bento related news: I'm in my 9th month of pregnancy. WHAAAAAAT????
What are those cute little bunny things? Where did you get them from?
ReplyDeleteThey are called food picks. I got mine on amazon.com, but you may even be able to find them in stores now... Kitchen stores, or shirokiya or possibly even longs?
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