My little girl is two! We had planned a Totoro themed picnic and treasure hunt in our local country park, but the weather was terrible- it rained ALL DAY. Luckily we'd been keeping an eye on the weather forecasts and rearranged the party to have it at our home (cue 24hrs manically cleaning and preparing pass-the-parcel and other party games!). The girl and her friends had a wonderful time anyway, and she loved her cake! Only five months until The boys birthday...
Ps- I love the spring! - Here is a picture of the birthday girl earlier in the week watching a butterfly with her big brother
While taking the boy food shopping he spotted some tiny pasta stars and absolutely fell in love with them so instead of making ongiri like usual for this box i cooked up some carrots, peas and sweetcorn for him. Also in this bento are chopped red grapes and little quail egg faces.
Sausages, Strawberries, and Spaghetti (and cucumbers!!). There's not really much to write about this one, It has all of the boys favorite food inside- an instant hit
Well this isnt even slightly related to bento but i had to post it. I dont know about the rest of the word but in the United Kingdom Land there is a shortage of affordable housing (investors buy it up and rent it out) and the government is trying to build housing pretty much everywhere, its quite a problem where i live- the small village with its local market town where i grow up have both doubled in size in the past 20 years, with loads of houses being squashed into the tiniest pieces of open land so when i saw this sign in another local village it really made me smile.
Two pretty similar bentos here, the first one has a triangle shape onigiri made as always with sushi rice and linseed with nori, some chopped red grapes and soya beans....
The second box has two triangle onigiri, two blue quail eggs, soya beans and a scotch egg.
Well, it seems like i am the type of bento blogger who posts nothing for over a month then does a huge mass update of the best of this month all in one go (basically a slightly rubbish blogger with good intentions!). I made this bento once again for my little boy, and wanted to do a two tone tier because my darling husband had just been down to london and picked me up some cute dividers from toko home before oreintal city closed (it was shut down earlier this month).
All Right then, in this bento we have:
Tiny pasta shells with peas, Quail eggs with tiny nori eyes (i thought they looked a bit dull without them!), Two mini sausages wrapped in pancake, a small pancake and strawberry jam roll, and some dried apricots. In the bottom (unseen because its really rather boring!) tier are some chopped grapes.
Finally! A Brand New bento to post!
As of about a fortnight ago my son has discovered Pokemon, and like any 3 year old boy thinks pikachu is brilliant so using the usuyaki tamago recipe from
Biggies great site i put together this little pikachu, adding nori and crabstick accents. Pikachu is on a block of linseed sushi rice. I also popped in some dried fruits (goji berries, apricots, and raisins)
In the bottom tier are a few edamame, sausages, carrot pieces and a couple of mini chocolate cakes as a treat.
PS- this is my entry for the
Wholesome Lunchbox competition this month
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If you want to link to my pictures thats fine but please let me know and credit me where it's due- thanks, katherine.
My little girl is two! We had planned a Totoro themed picnic and treasure hunt in our local country park, but the weather was terrible- it rained ALL DAY. Luckily we'd been keeping an eye on the weather forecasts and rearranged the party to have it at our home (cue 24hrs manically cleaning and preparing pass-the-parcel and other party games!). The girl and her friends had a wonderful time anyway, and she loved her cake! Only five months until The boys birthday...
Ps- I love the spring! - Here is a picture of the birthday girl earlier in the week watching a butterfly with her big brother
