Bento # 65 and # 66 - Tigger sandwich and Piglet sandwich

This was yesterday bento - for the first day of Girlet's test in Mandarin. Just a quick bento- cheese sandwich & Nutella sandwich, all cut with Tigger cookie mould; chicken nuggets, strawberry and champagne grapes. The kids couldn't stop eating the champagne grapes, all the while competing on who can find the smallest grape.

This was today's bento: Piglet sandwich with Nutella, two types of dragonfruit, and fish wrapped with seaweed topped with mayonnaise and tomato sauce.

The Tigger and Piglet imprints turned out rather nice, didn't it? The kids love these Disney cookie moulds. You can get them from NST and Market Place.

OMG! Stressed out Mom

Two months ago, I bought 3 tickets to the puppet show "The Man Who Planted Trees" for 12th October. That was before realising when Girlet's test was. Anyway, I have been so stressed out about Girlet's Mandarin test today, that we totally FORGOT to go to the show yesterday.

Can someone give me a big kick in the ..... ?

Bentos # 62, 63 & 64 : Slapdash Bentos

I haven’t been online most of this week. Girlet is having her school assessment next week, and I've been busy studying, ahem, helping Girlet revising for her tests.

Here are the bentos for the past few days. Quoting Blessed Mom, the mommy is rather brain dead now, hence lack creativity. All bentos here met my speed bento criterion of 15 minutes and less.


Bento # 62 : Bread with kaya, cheese and Nutella, SiuPao, ham shaped as anemone, cube cheese, heart shaped dragon fruit, and Strawberry fruit snack.

Bento # 63 : Star shaped nuggets, onigiri, sandwich, golden kiwi, and crackers; two sticks of satay, and a strawberry gummy sweet. Not shown are tomato sauce and soy sauce. Basically just a slapdash bento. I ran out of bread, so packed the crust (which Girlet doesn't mind eating). And made do with the frozen onigiri for more carbs. Now I wonder how the food tasted like together. Girlet didn't complain and came back with an empty box. Couldn't tell if she threw anything away.

Bento # 64 : Heart & Flower shaped sandwich with Nutella, candy coated sunflower seeds, breaded prawns and fish, banana, dried raisins & apricot, and a cranberry fruit snack. Surprisingly, she didn't like the candy coated sunflower seeds. Boylet finished that for her.

Girlet loves the Kettle Valley Organic Fruit Snack. It has one apple in every bar, with an assortment of flavours, and she loves all of them. I like to think of it as a serving of fruit to meet the 7 vegies & fruits a day quota. *_^

Bento # 61 - all about cars

Found a picture of a bento, languishing away in another camera. You reckon it's the early signs of Alzheimer? From the picture, it was easy to tell that the bento was made about three weeks ago, during puasa period and mid-autumn festival. Contents: Car shaped sandwiches, three layers with nutella and cheese; two car shaped quail eggs; car shaped cup with dates, raisins and apricot. And the jelly mooncake which was given by someone.

The car shaped cutter is actually for vegetables, but I found it to be the perfect size for the 2 and 4 year old. The 2 year old can eat a whole bunch of these bread cutouts, which she would otherwise reject. She likes her bread plain, with the cheese at the side.

By the way, the raisins and apricots are organic. The non-organic dried fruits are usually preserved with sulfur to maintain the colour. Unfortunately sulfur triggers boylet's eczema and gives me puffed up lips, which is sexy but super itchy... hehe.... For more info on dried apricots, check this link.

Bento # 60 - Piggy bento

Girlet and Boylet are back to kindy today after the Hari Raya holidays last week. In fact, Girlet had the whole week off, so she was really lazy to go to school today. So, as encouragement, let her bring a fun pig bento today. The pig pau is very cute, huh? Of course not made by me. But looks easy to duplicate. Another item for my ever expanding to-try list.... *_*
Pig shaped pau, fish tofu, fishpaste wrapped with filament stick, Japanese fishcake stuffed with filament stick, pig container with sweet sauce, and grapes. Too bad I didn't have any pig picks, so have to make do with bears.

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Kids Talk # 2

Have I instilled too much fear in girlet? Read this story narrated by SIL, and let me know.


Girlet is a big fan of 'My Little Pony', as the ponies have long coloured hair and are super duper cute! So anyways, Girlet went out with SIL and brought her 'flock' of My Little Ponies out. While holding her hand as they walked to the restaurant, SIL pried into her paperbag and went:

SIL: Wowwwwwwww.... so many ponies hor... you brought the whole family out ah??
Girlet: Ya, but I left one at home.
SIL: How come? Why did you leave her behind?
Girlet: It's a HIM! 'Cos he has to guard the castle.....
SIL: Icic... But what or who is he guarding the castle from??
Girlet: You mean u dunno ah? Nowadays got a lot of thieves breaking into houses u know?! *Tightens her grip on her paperbag of 'assets' & adds...* Have to be careful when walking also 'cos got a lot of snatch thieves around... *looks behind her shoulder*

Haha...... Is Girlet getting very 'auntie' too?

Btw, school hols for a week, so no bentos. We've been away too.... back hometown in Johor.... but actually the mommy's excuse to go Singapore for bento shoppping. Haha...