What a crazy year!! I started going back to school full time last fall and the months have just flown by!!
Salmon Crunch Roll
Beary Good Salad
I don’t remember when I made this bento. Just trying to get back in the game! 
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This cake took me two days to make! There were several elements involved that I had never tried before and that definitely contributed to how long it took to make it. Today is Tia Melanie’s Birthday party at my folks’ … Continue reading
I made a sweet potato casserole and for school I packed a cute Sweet Potato Lion mini-bento. I just stuffed a marshmallow into the sweet potato and then used chocolate icing and a toothpick to draw on a face and two dollops of glitter frosting for eyes!
My most favorite discovery has been these little Rubbermaid containers. I can put small amounts of leftovers in them to flush out their lunches or I can buy cans of fruit (much cheaper than the little plastic containers!) and split them up for lunches in these little babies! Love it!
Wow. It’s been so long since I made a bento. What can I say? Things have been crazy!! We moved to the farm…then we moved back. I guess change isn’t for all of us. 
The kids and I went strawberry picking and then I saw these great little strawberry mice in the latest Family Fun magazine and I had to try to make them! So kawaii!
It was pretty time consuming and lord knows I have no time these days, so I only made one mouse for each kid. They have cheese ears, chocolate icing eyes, and mini chocolate chip noses. I used a balloon pick as a tail. I tried to dip the other strawberries in chocolate frosting but it kept sliding of the berries! Oops.
The bottom tier of the bento boxes included hummus and carrots and mini chicken sandwiches which Evie loved!
I am posting this a little late! The move is in full swing and I am only making about two bento lunches a week now. My poor, neglected children!
I fried some pork belly, rolled it up, and secured it with heart picks. There green beans in a heart shaped cup and two V-day shortbread cookies. Yum! In the top tier is just some leftover mac and cheese from dinner with pepperonis cut in the shape of…(you guessed it!)…hearts.
This bento was thanks to our local (1 hour away!) Super H Mart which was SOOOOO awesome! Maddie got the yummy veggie noodles at the cafeteria and there was so much we had plenty leftover for bentos. Then we made tempura shrimp for dinner with salty Brussels sprouts. We also got some adorable and delicious Asian pears that fit right into the bento box. Kawaii!!! In the packaging is a sweet cookie and a penguin full of tartar suace.
We are moving across town to a 15 acre farm at the end of February!! Everyone is excited, we’re going to have chickens and quail! But best of all we will have acres and acres to plant a gigantic veggie garden. Hoo-ray!
To celebrate, I made the kids a bento with three quail eggs that were dyed with a little food coloring in water, nori faces, and the little chick has carrot feet and a carrot beak. Kawaii!!
What should we grow in our garden?
We’ve been having a lot of beans and rice lately so I had to come up with a creative way to “re-feed” them to the kids. There’s a layer of brown rice with the black beans on top. I found some great “clay cutters” at Hobby Lobby and they are perfect for cutting out small pieces of cheese or veggies. I’ve never found cookie cutters as small as the clay cutters! I just added a moon and stars (inspired by the black sky). I made an apple and dried blueberry salad and added some nonpareils for desert. The adorable egg is a quail egg! Yes, I found quail eggs in Atlanta! They were NOT cheap ($5 for 24 eggs!!) but I had to have them! They taste just like chicken eggs but they are much, much cuter!
Evie wanted soup for lunch but that’s not super adorable (although her Pororo Thermos is!) so I made some onigiri by mixing black beans in white rice and shaping them in a traditional triangle onigiri. The girls and I have been watching a great cartoon from Japan called “Fruits Basket” and I tried to copy the main character, Tohru’s, onigiri. I also added some yummy snow peas!
When Maddie saw them she had to have some too! 
Mmmm…ham flowers with cheese centers, a potato bun, bunny boiled egg, and sliced green apples. Delicious!!
