Cute Ideas for Bento Sets

Wonder how you can make these wonderful bentos for lunch? Now you can over at Lunch in a Box! Not only do they look great, they are easy and quick to prepare! The following is one of my favourite post by her where she teaches us how to make great eggs in the shape of a cow or a pig!

so first of all, this bento lunch consists of just rice,egg, some beans and blueberries!
simple ingredients but it looks awesome!

So how do we make our rice and eggs into mini animals?

First of all, make sure you have moulds like these.

They don't have to be special moulds for eggs (although they do have egg moulds) or rice. Simple ice-cream sandwich moulds will do, similar to the above which the author had used.


All you have to do is to place the hard boiled eggs while its hot into the moulds, then make sure you close it with the plunger tightly and place them in cold water.
Once done, VOILA! Your hard boiled eggs will turn out shaped like these!

To get it coloured as above, all you need to do is soak the eggs in food dye after removing the eggs out of the moulds. Cute ya? =)

Read the rest of the tutorial and more over HERE by the author herself!

Since we are on the topic of bento, here's a cute video of an ang moh singing a bento song before eating at a Japanese pre-school.

This ang moh kid is super adorable! He doesn't look like he knows the words! かわいい！！！

Here was what they sang/said:

Obento obento
Obento obento, ureshii na
Nan demo tabemasho, yoku kande
Minna sorotte goaisatsu

Spoken
Otousan Okaasan, oishii obento
Itadakimasu, nokosazu ni tabemashou ne
Itadakimasu, dozo meshiagare

Translation:
Obento obento obento
Obento obento, So happy (hooray!)
Let’s eat anything & chew it well
Now that we’re all together,
Let’s say “Let’s eat”

Father mother, delicious obento
"Let's eat", let us eat and not leave anything behind
"Let's eat", please start eating!

The actual lyrics and song can be found at THIS PAGE (slightly different from the above)

Super cute ya? XD