It’s February! So let’s start the month off with a happy family bento today!  Mini pancakes, Babybel cheese, celery with peanut butter and pineapple. After C saw this bento, she told me not to make any cute bento like this one.  She said that the bento is too cute to be eaten. According to her, I should not make it too cute! Sigh! I guess I won’t be making too many cute faces in the future.

Phew, what a crazy January it has been. After my last post, our snowstorm turned into an ice storm which led to a couple of days of power outage. School was also cancelled for the entire week. Needless to say, we did nothing but play in the snow, sled on the ice and ate by the fireplace. Even though I have to admit that I went through digital withdrawal, I have to say that a few days of no electronics was really nice. The whole family spent a lot of time reading especially C who thought that reading with headlights and booklights is the coolest thing to do.

Anyway, it’s back to bento time. This bento contains most of C’s favorite food. There’s the croissant, edamame, picks of honey ham, grapes and finally Ferrero Rocher for dessert.

Happy bento-ing!

Well, we wished for snow and we definitely got our wish granted. Today is the 2nd day of school cancellation. I have a feeling that we will be out of school for the rest of the week and I am totally ok with that! : )

Here’s the bento of the day: Malaysian style fried noodles, pears, Babybel cheese and M&Ms

It’s a snow day today!!! The first snow of this winter season. Love the winter wonderland!!

With all the snow, we are all hibernating at home. Thankfully there is no school today. But at the rate that it is snowing, we might have a snow week.

Oh ya, here’s a bento from last week, pasta with marinara sauce, green grapes, carrots and dip.

Have a great week!!

A little late but with lots of sincere wishes – HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my dear readers!!! A big thank you to all of you who are still dropping by even though my posts had been far and sporadic in 2011. 2011 was a rough year with lots of personal challenges. But by God’s grace, we are climbing over those small bumps slowly but surely. So with everything happening in life, blogging ended up taking a back seat last year. Thoughts of closing down this blog had occurred many times but it is hard to give up 5 1/2 years of work. The truth is that I still love to make bento, cook new food and try new restaurants. I just didn’t have the time to blog. So for 2012, I am determined to be more organized and hopefully be able to post consistently.
With that, here’s my first bento for 2012………

Sausage English Muffin sandwich, Ferrero Rocher chocolate, carrots and broccoli with dip and orange slices.

Have a great week!!!!

Ever since C’s birthday party where I made a bunch of Babybel cheese faces, C has been asking for them. While making the cheese face, I decided to add a couple of smiley faces with edible marker to the pancake. It is amazing how a couple of dots and lines can transform a boring bento into a cheerful one. So today’s bento contains smiley face pancakes, Babybel cheese face, m&ms, lettuce and diced peaches.

Wow, I can’t believe we have only 1 1/2 weeks of school left. Time really flies! Things are a little crazy now with all the year end school activities and also it seems like we have birthday parties every weekend. At least we managed to get our tree up early this year. I am really looking forward to the end of school because it will be vacation time! Can’t wait for that! But for now, it’s bento time. A simple bento of crepes, ham rolls and grapes.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We had an awesome Thanksgiving break and of course, we pigged out! I think this week I will have to give my tummy a break!

Anyway, back to today’s bento. It contains banana fritters, baked beans and red pepper omelette.

Finally! A bento post after a long break. Last month my laptop broke down and it took me a while to get another one. Then I had to figure out how to edit and post photos from my new laptop. Phew, took me a while but I think I finally figured it out.

Anyway, here’s a bento that is simple and yet sweet. C always love her lunches that have lots of hearts. Heart-shaped Nutella sandwiches, heart-shaped ham, ChocoBoy snack and diced peaches.