Friday, September 4, 2009

Bento #31 Little boy & little girl

This week's been pretty hectic. Didnt have time to fix any proper lunch bentos for them. Took a break for morning so while out sending Ks to school, instructed maid wat to prepare: cook rice, panfry salmon and shred it, steam spinach, fry scrambled egg, toast salmon fishcakes & ebi fry.
Everything was mostly ready by time it was 10am so I started.
Wasnt as smooth cos it was first time trying out with a face shape with surrounding salmon flakes. Salmon bits were falling into the rice and I think it's due to the small bento box. No space! Managed to press and push to tighten the rice. Oh the spinach was chopped finely and i squeezed them in between the rice and salmon/egg, so they cant be seen. So at least they get their dose of greens. When i finished, called dad to come over to see and he said the face didnt stand out cos the salmon/egg were too much and also higher than the rice face.
Below was after "amendment". I added in more rice to the faces so it protrudes out more.



Ks's bento. His is simpler and I dont like it so much cos i thought could've done something more with his hair. Looks kinda pathetic huh..


Rn's bento. If u see carefully, the forehead and eye areas are like sunken, cos I didnt add in more rice on that part. Didnt want to touch the eyes/lashes cos they were so stubborn and took some time to stay in place! *sweat* So i only added in the lower portion, thats why it looks somewhat weird huh? LOL! No time no time...had to rush to get myself ready for work!

I'm still wondering wat i can use for the side dishes cos it's always fried stuff. I wanted to make meatballs but think they'll be spat out, unless they taste like ikea's swedish meat balls! But cant have anything too wet in the bento either.

2 comments:

  1. hey.. I like it! great that yr kids can take stuff like salmon n all. If i made Tammi's lunch like that, she will kick a big fuss and leave everything untouched! *faint* from the pic, can hardly see the so called ' sunken ' parts .. but I'm curious how u managed to squeeze everything in and still able to close the bento box cover??

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  2. aunty pam, ya they do eat salmon but this one was a bit too dry so they didnt really like it that much. Gd question abt how everythg went in. they didnt!! LOL...i sat up the prawns etc for the photo-taking, but i lay them down and pressed the cover down. Bento box always look nicer with things filled instead of gaps inside, thats why i squeezed all in.

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