Bento # 26 - Another Quick and Easy Bento

It's been a while since my last bento and I feel sad about it. My schedule this past weeks prevented me from creating cute lunches for my daughter, that and the 2-week break they had in school, is the reason why I was in a forced hiatus. Anyway, I found a chance to do a quick and easy lunch for her this week my first and hopefully not the last  for this month. Inside the box: Tocino ( a local sweet cured pork), flower shaped mango bits, Jelly and cheese cubes.

Bento # 24 - Butterflies in the ganden

Maybe you're wondering why this type of bread are always present in my bento, these have actually became my daughter's favorite. I remember the first time I included this in her lunch box, she had a sad face and said "I don't like it Mommy". But I said she just need to try it and she'll find it's good. So after that she always request to have it as her baon. Now I running out of ideas on how to design or be creative about it, he, he.

Inside the box: Mamon (sponge cake), flower and butterfly shapes cheese, mango balls , cheese triangle and egg chocolates for a treat.

Bento # 22 - In my Garden

I arrived late from work due to traffic so I was not able to really do an elaborate bento for my daughter. Here's a quick one I did, I bought Pianono, a local sponge cake,  from a bakery near us and just add mango cubes and rainbow marshmallows. For her drink she got Chuckie, not in the picture though. I just hope that I'll have more time to prepare her bento in the days to come. I'm anticipating a change in our routine in the coming days and I still apprehensive of the outcome, bad or good. I hope it will be for the good. Enjoy the rest of the week everyone :))

Bento# 21 - Starry Starry Bento

Happy Monday everyone! I'm back after being absent for a week on my blog. Last week was a bit of a challenge. I was able to make a bento for my kid on monday however due to the morning rush I was not able to take a picture. The following day, there was no classes because of typhoon Nesat. I was a bit worried because it was exactly 2 years since typhoon Ondoy, which caused such a destruction in our country, and Nesat was almost the similar to it. It's really sad because although we were not really affected, my countrymen living in the northern part of the country was greatly affected. I just pray that they will recover soon after this trial.

Well, so much for sad news, it's a brand new day and the sun is shining. I asked my daughter yesterday what she wants for her lunch, and she answered shyly.. Bento! So here it is...

Inside the box: 2 fluffy sponge cake with stars and smiling moon, mango balls, and a deformed heart shaped egg  :))

Bento #20 - Two Sad Bears

I wonder why the two bears looks so sad. Maybe they don't want to be eaten, yay! I actually intended them to be smiling but lack of proper tool made them look so sad. How I wish I would have nori punchers to improved the facial expressions of my bentos. There are only a few stores selling bento gadget here in our area and sad to say nori punchers are so rare on their stocks. Anyway, sad expression aside, I know my little girl liked my creation coz her  smile was so big  when she got to look at the bear-shaped cheese.Yehey!

Bento No. 19 - PB and J Triangles

I want to try the new pocket sandwich maker, that i had my sister bought for me, for quite sometime now. It's been sitting on it packet for weeks already. So finally here it is! Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich pockets cut into triangles. I just hope my little girl will like it. When it comes to food she's a little bit wary of tasting new things and this is the first time I made PB and J. Normally it's just simple peanut butter. This is also the first time I'm using this box, bought it from SM Department Store and it's really intended to hold sandwiches and other thing you'd like to pack for lunch.

Bento No. 16 - Checks and Swirls

Another one of my quick and easy bento ideas. the box contain a slice of marble cake , checkered slab of apple, flower shaped boiled quail eggs (not too obvious on the pic he, he) and cheese cube. It's Friday and still I'm not able to buy bento staples... fridge is still empty haisst! I hope by next week I will be able to be more creative on my bento. It's jut frustrating to know that my schedule this month will change I'll be working from 10 pm to 7 am, so  I will not be able to do my daughter's lunch box except on my rest days. Thankfully it fell on week days so I will have 2 days to prepare her lunch box.

Bento No. 13 - Easy Peasy Bento

Quick and easy, that's my goal for today's bento. I don't have too many ideas on what to pack today so I stood in front of the fridge with doors open ( I know it's a little waste of energy)  to check what to add to my daughter's lunch box. I still have the purple yam siopao and mangoes, voila! instant bento stash! I've included steamed hacao (shrimp dumplings) It's good that when I started bentoing I purchased a mini microwave steamer, it really comes in handy when I want to shorten prep time.  So here it is my Easy Peasy Bento. I may do a lot of this quick and easy lunch box in the future.

By the way it includes two siopao because my daughter told me that some of her classmate really wants to check her lunch every day and I've told her to share some to her friends.