Chinese Sausage Fried Rice Bento

Another of our regular rotations - Fly Lice with whatever ingredients I have on hand.

To up the fibre, I topped it with some pea shoots 豆苗.

Kimchi Chicken Two Ways

For Takoyaki, with rice, steamed egg and tomato soup (made by her). She recently got her braces done, so her gums are very sore and everything has to be small (read: cut up) and soft. Poor thing, couldn't even eat her birthday party food. Yes, today is her birthday!

And in our standard pocket sandwich for Roast Meat.

Quinoa Stir Fry with BBQ Ribs

I finally managed to persuade RM to try this quinoa dish which I served last night at dinner together with the tender, oven-baked pork ribs. A very quick stir fry, I chopped some onions, carrot, olives an broccoli and tossed them into the wok with the quinoa. Seasoned with salt and pepper and it was done!

I've been trying to get him to eat alternative carbs to help him control his weight. Previously, RM only accepted quinoa when it was in my Quinoa Patties. 

This is turning out to be Onigiri Week

Yup. No one's complaining, except maybe my husband who had to wash the rice moulds. Haha!

Planned-Over Monday - Pizza Box

Both Takoyaki and Roast Meat had a blast guzzling pizza yesterday. We seldom order pizza these days so they were really very delighted, and no complaints were voiced about the next day's bentos featuring pizza again (personally, I would object, but then I'm not a pizza person).

After the rueful condition of my fridge and pantry last week, I made sure my kitchen is better stocked this week. This week's menus promise to be more varied and balanced in nutrition.

Always keep some pasta sauce in your pantry

Remember Monday's inaugural bacon sandwiches? We bought a whole packet of bacon just because of the sandwiches (ok, so there were only 8 rashers in it - it's a small pack) and completely forgot about the rest sitting in the fridge.

And when it came to the evening's bento planning/request time, there was nothing else I could use other than the bacon. So after a few minutes of research on the internet, I decided on a simple bacon pasta dish with minimal prep and cooking. 

Like I said, I ran out of the usual staples so there wasn't even any veg. Going marketing tomorrow...

We love Onigiris!

Hands down, my kids' favourite bento food. They NEVER refuse when I offer this. Today, it's paired with some planned-over teriyaki chicken and fruits. Satisfying...

Bacon Sandwich Bento

I do believe this is a first for me. Upon request from Roast Meat, I simply toasted two slices of bacon in the toaster till desired doneness and slipped them between slices of multi-grain bread. I was too lazy to even cut up the small apple into convenient slices for him.

My excuse is - toothache. I didn't sleep the whole night and quickly telephoned for an appointment with my dentist. I ended up with surgery, but that story does not belong on a bento blog.

CNY break coming up!

We certainly are looking forward to the lovely four and a half day weekend which begins on Wed afternoon.

One and only bento for this week - bak kwa sandwiches, gold coins (tamagoyaki) and apples.

Wishing all bento'ers a blissful and healthy Year of the Goat!

干捞素面 Cold Somen Salad

A delicious cool summer lunch for RM who has to stay in school for supplementary classes.

A small snack box of CNY goodies for his 10 min break in class. Counts as healthy?

Return of the Moulded Mini Buns

In my attempt to come up with variety, I occasionally dig back through past posts to see what else I can cook up. Here's an old favourite of mine.

The How-To for making these cute buns is here.

Merry Monday Pasta Bento

Topped with green pepper and onion omelette and served with apple chunks.

I just hope it's not stone cold by recess time since this box does not have very good thermal properties.

Friday Sandwich Bento - Bak kwa

Nuff said.

Stinky Bento

Aka Natto Don. Roast Meat's eyes lit up when he saw me preparing this bento last night. This boy will eat Natto with anything, anytime.

Served with cucumber ribbons and mandarin orange wedges. Oh, and a snack box of homemade kueh lapis legit.

Teriyaki Chicken has appeared!

A perennial favourite, my kids love it for its combination of sweet and salty flavours, topped with the peakiness of mirin. This time, I cooked the chicken especially for their bentos the night before. On the side are cherry tomatoes and a little clingwrapped bag of kimchi.

Get the recipe for Teriyaki Chicken here.

I baked them this time, skin side up, on the second highest shelf position at 200C for about 13min, till the skins were a beautiful caramelised brown.