Purchases and Bentos in Sydney

Sorry for the lack of posts. The computer and the server took turns to be down, and then there were the bad storms and lightning most of the week. Can't believe we've been back a week already. My mom came to look after babylet while we were away, but apparently she didn't missed us at all. She's even got to calling my eldest sis mummy. And she definitely put on weight under grandma's care. Hmm, while I'm glad she adjusted well, she didn't have to adjust that well, huh?

Anyway, back to update on the Sydney trip. We stayed at BIL's apartment in Sydney. Being a bachelor's part time pad, the first thing we had to do is to stock up on some groceries and fresh milk for the kids. Bought things like salami sticks, various sausages and ham, roast beef, breadrolls, tortillas, some vegies and lots of fruits : strawberries, blueberries, pears, grapes, oranges and banana (as insisted by boylet). And sorrylah, Emily. I passed on the kangaroo meat, hehe…

Then we went Chinatown, and was surprised to find bento boxes and cutleries.
Boylet really wanted the monkey box, but the clasps were hard to open even for an adult, so he reluctantly took the doraemon box instead (I think Jo-N bought the same one in KL's Pavillion). As expected, girlet chose the sugarbunny box. Also bought two cutlery sets.

I had brought along two small bento boxes there, thinking of packing snacks for kids. But after purchasing two extra big bento boxes and so much groceries, decided to pack bento for some of the outings. Also cheaper to packlah, the exchange rate is crazy.

The first bento was for Taronga Zoo. As it was a whole day trip, had to pack more. The photo on top had fish fingers, chorizos, black pepper sausage, asparagus wrapped with roast beef and eggs.

The second photo had grapes, more eggs (wished I had egg moulds with me), and cocktail sausages.
The third photo was of the rolls : plain, sesame seed and poppy seed. The intention was to make hotdog, but the kids preferred to eat the sausages and bun separately. Surprisingly, Boylet loved the poppy seed ones.

The second bento was a snack bento. We went to Sydney Aquarium, which was just a walking distance away from BIL's apartment. We had lunch at a cafe at Darling Harbour and snacked on wonderfully sweet (and cheap) grapes, blueberries, strawberries and hardboiled eggs. Not shown are stick salami which the kids really enjoyed.Finally, a picnic bento which we had at Hyde Park while walking towards Australian Museum. Tortillas rolled with ham, turkey slices, roast beef, carrots, long beans, and asparagus. All different heights, haha, was in a hurry so just simply cut. The smaller boxes had seafood pasta left over from dinner the previous night – penne with fish for the boylet, and with prawns for girlet. For fruits, more of the grapes, strawberries, and blueberries. Also packed some small packs of crisps for snacks.

We finished most of the perishables in Sydney. Just brought back some fruits and lots of biscuits and chocolates (those flavours still not available in Cold Storage like cherry ripe, bounty, minties sweets, non-halal bacon biscuits). Not forgetting macadamia nuts (unsalted, salted, wasabe and abalone flavoured) and dried fruits (apple rings, pawpaw, and kiwifruit which are cheaper than those in CS here).

Also managed to satisfy the kids (or mine?) shaped pasta mania with the following. Firstly, boylet’s favourite dinosaur pasta – both mini and tricoloured. He was really excited when I bought these, and insisted on opening immediately until I explained that they needed to be cooked.

Next is nothing new. Alphabets and animal pasta except these are tri-coloured.
Was tempted to buy tinned shaped pasta all ready cooked, just need reheating. But didn’t want to risk having d’hubby nagging that they were too heavy to carry back. So bought packet alphabet noodles to try out. The photo below also show raisin & apricots packs, and stick salami snack.That's all, next post will be photos of the kids in Sydney.