Bento 12/9/2010-12/10/2010 & X'mas Afternoon Snack

Sydney finally went back to school last Thursday after 8 sick days. And it's time to make Christmas theme bentos.  

I made this Christmas tree bento for Sydney on Thursday. I used the tree cookie cutter to fill in with broccoli, and filled the space with rice, then took out the cookie cutter and used angel hair pasta and corn to decorate the Christmas tree. Along with the tree was miso chicken, strawberries and black berries.

Sydney had snowman and Santa Claus sandwich, baby carrots with salad dressing, fruit leather and cheeses stick on Friday. 

Santa was cut out with heart shape cookie cutter. Beard and the trim of hat were shredded cheese stick. I also put a small triangle ham to make Santa's hat.

 The scarf on snowman was made with leather fruit.

Gingerbread man pancake with raisin eyes, dried raspberry mouth and Fruity Cheerios buttons.  

Another snowman sandwich with icing decorations, mini marshmallow on snowman picks and apples with candy cane decoration.

Gingerbread man sandwich with leather fruit decorations, leather fruit candy cane and fresh berries.



Bento 11/22/2010-11/24/2010 and Afternoon Snack

Last week was Thanksgiving and the theme for the week was autumn and Thanksgiving. Since Sydney had only three school days, I also posted some afternoon snacks in this article. 

Monday, 11/22/2010, Sydney had penne with meat sauce, some leave shaped cheese with face expression, cucumber and kiwi. I purchased those face expression punches from http://www.allthingsforsale.com/, and they were $2.99 or $3.50 each.

I tried to cut seaweed to make a pilgrim girl, but it looked like I failed. Sydney had rice, corn, half crab cake, pork chop with mushroom in ketchup and mix fruit on Tuesday.

Since this was the last bento before Thanksgiving break, I made turkey cheese sandwich with Thanksgiving picks, carrot and apple with cream cheese dip. 

I went couple stores to find Thanksgiving picks. Unfortunately, I did not find anything. Instead, I bought some Thanksgiving stickers. I used the stickers and tooth picks to make couple Thanksgiving picks for Sydney. But they didn't stick very well. 

Sometimes, I made some fancy snack for my girls. Those were parfait (blueberry yogurt, blueberries, strawberries and bananas) and buttered toast. 

I also made a Mickey Mouse with 2 slices of banana and a egg custard (raisin for the eyes, almond for the nose and pretezel for the mouth).

There were mini egg custards, mini pigs in the blaket and some grapes in this afternoon snack plate.

Another Spooky Halloween Snack Bento

I made a Halloween themed snack bento for Sydney and Vienna yesterday, and the girls really liked my spooky bento a lot.

A spooky Halloween snack bento in the Lock & Lock container

Viena's favoriate witch's finger mozzarella stick. I used the food-safe marker to make the nail and knuckle lines.

Some grapes on ghost/pumpkin picks

Pumpkin and bat shape pretzel

I also turned the home made muffin into a Jack-O'-Lantern with food-safe marker

Afternoon Snack Box #1

My girls are usually busy after school. Sydney has gymnastics pre-team practice on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, art lessons on Tuesdays. Both Sydney and Vienna have swimming lessons on Wednesdays and Fridays. So I need to prepare some snack for them before those crazy lessons so they will not be too hungry and pass out.

This is Sydney's favoriate quesadilla with mini pepperoni, some pretzel fish and fresh stawberries.

Mini rice ball with Furikake rice seasoning, crakers and some rasins.

Egg salad sandwich pocket, stawberries and banana.

Donut shaped ham and cheese sandwich with icing decoration and stawberries.

Homedade raspberry muffin, graham crackers and apple chunks.

Half mini bagle with cream cheese, pretzels and banana slices.

Buttered toast and stawberries.

Mini waffle sandwich, banana slices, stawberries and yogurt.