J's lunch box consist of plain rice with eel, flora shape carrot, broccoli and strawberries. As ZY is a pasta lover I made animal pasta and hard boiled egg and grapes for her. I forgot to take pic of ZY's lunch.
I added pumpkin flakes which I got from Isetan some time ago to the uncooked rice and cooked together till the rice is ready. I steamed the eel and placed it on top of the cooked rice. I also prepared grapes in the side dishes containers. I used food picks to make the grapes look like balloons, rings, umbrellas and flowers. Niece also attracted to them, she arranged the food picks nicely on the table after she finished the grapes.
I used this mini bento set from Tiger as it can keep the rice warm with the thermal cup container. I like this bento set very much so decided to get a set. There're many designs for similar bento set in market. Hubby find this bento set is good and has an insulated carrier so decided to bring this bento set when we going to Hokkaido next month. We can use this to pack food for J, in case he gets hungry when we're on the road.
Today's lunch consist of rice, minced meat cooked in rice wine and soy sauce, veg with cuttlefish.
Since ZY & J likes quail eggs, i decided to include into today's bento for them. Both boxes consist the same food. The 1st sushi consist of crab sticks, rice and decorate with bear & star carrot as topping. The 2nd sushi consist of carrots, rice and Hello Kitty fishcake. I used beancurd skin for both sushi. I pack the remaining carrots and quail eggs in the silicon cups.
This is the adults' bento. Both boxes consist the same food. The sushi consist of rosemary chicken and I decorated the sushi with Hello Kitty fishcake. I marinated the chicken with rosemary herbs and all purpose seasoning, and pan fry with margarine. The herbs can easily found in supermarkets.
I made curry made from Vermont japanese curry cubes. I boiled the chicken carrots till cooked then add in cabbage and the curry cubes, the curry is ready within 1 hour. I packed the curry in a leak proof tupperware container instead of the usual lunch boxes I have as I don't want to risk having a curry scent cooler bag. I packed rice in the red lunch box for my boy decorated with powdered seaweed using one of the stencil I have. I sprinkled some furikake over a bear outline stencil for the rice in the pink lunch box for my hubby and Korean glass noodles which I got from a Korean supermarket in Singapore. The glass noodle can be found in usual supermarket nowadays. I packed hubby's and mine lunch in the 2-tier Hello Kitty lunch box. To maintain the curry to be hot or at least warm, I packed all the food in a Hello Kitty cooler bag. I also freeze 2 bottles of water and packed them in another cooler bag so we have cold drinks for the hot weather.
J & ZY have the same food, egg pancake with capsicum and carrot underneath the sushi rice. I decorate the rice with powdered seaweed using the stencils I bought recently.
For SH & myself, tuna triangle sushi, tomato and mushroom fishball.
I used the thermal food jar to keep the food warm. I pre-heat the thermal food jar before I pack the food in. It will help to keep the food warm for longer hours.
Top to Bottom: Miso soup with mushroom steam and dried seaweed, scramble egg with fresh button mushroom, oven baked chicken wing, Hello Kitty rice, triangular onigiri with furikake wrapped with seaweed.
