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

Spooky Halloween Themed Bentos

I am starting to make Halloween Themed Bentos, and I am really loving it and coming out a lot of new ideas everyday.

Upper left: veggie with blue cheese dipping and bat cheese

Upper right: strawberries and banana on pumpkin picks

Lower right: boiled egg on black cat pick

Lower left: grilled cheese and ham sandwich and ghosts cheese

 Monster rice balls (but they don't really look very scary), grilled miso chicken and vegetable stew.

Upper left: penne with meat sauce and cat shape ham

Upper right: boo ghost garlic bread

Lower right: ham and cheese roll on spider pick and pumpkin shape baked Japanese sweet potato

Lower left: blue berries and strawberries on pumpkin picks

Jack-O'-Lantern rice ball and clementine, pork and veggie stew and bat shape seaweed.

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.

Another Bear Bento

A friend of mine gave me a pack of rice ball molds, and I like this Teddy Bear head a lot.

I made the rice balls using the mold and I placed a piece of homemade pickle on the face to make the face stands out more.I also cut nori to make ears, eyes, nose and mouth.

There were Japanese style fried chicken, dried tofu and seasoned seaweed in this cute bento box. Sydeny and Vienna told me that they really liked their Teddy Bear bento.  

Ladybug

I had some left over grilled salmon in my refrigerator and I thought maybe I could turn it into something different. So I made this ladybug bento for Sydeny and Vienna, my younger daughter.

Instead of using food coloring to make red color rice ball, I mixed salmon with rice and make them into some little pinkish color rice balls. Then I cut nori in circles and half circles to make ladybugs' heads and spots. The ladybug antennae were made out of black color straw.

I also put some seasoned seaweed, corn on the bob and some grapes in the bento.



Field Trip Bento Box

I made Sydeny's lunch for her field trip today in a take out box because her teacher wanted their lunch to be packed in a disposable container or bag. So I told my husband to pick up a take out box at a restaurant that our friend owns.

I made a seaweed rice ball and wrapped it in the happy face little girl wrapping film. I also packed some baked Japanese sweet potato, clementine for fruit and some crackers for snack.

Tic Tac Toe Sandwich

I got the idea from Tic Tac Toe Pizza at American Girl Cafe, I use thick slice toast bought in Mitsuwa supermarket in Edgewater, NJ. I sliced the toast into 9 squares and on each square I placed either a circle ham or X shaped yellow cheese. I also use the leftover cheese and ham to make some rolls to squeeze in the space so the Tic Tac Toe sandwich can stay in the place.   

I also pack strawberries, raspberries and blueberries for fruit.