Happy Monday to everyone and hope you have a great start for the brand new week!
I didn’t made any bento for JY today as we were away from home last weekend and I didn’t managed to get any ingredients needed for making bento. I just packed him some store bought bread for his snack today.
Anyway, I’ll take this chance to share one of the snacks I made for JQ previously. I didn’t make any proper bento for him yet though he started nursery. This is partly because he doesn’t really need any yet.
Another reason is I am a bit worry that he’ll lost my bento accessories like the food picks as he is still too young to be ‘brain-washed’, just like what I did to my elder boy. I am so glad that for almost a one and a half year I am packing him bento, he never lost any single piece of the bento accessories I used for his bento!
All right, let’s come back to the snacks I made for JQ. I try to make something simple which doesn’t require any bento accessories, such as this one – the checkered bunny sandwiches.
I cut some white bread and chocolate raisin bread into bite size pieces and apply butter and jam for the white bread. I just need to alternate them when arranging them into the snack box to get the checkered pattern.
To make the simple snack looks more tempting I use a small bunny shape cookies cutter to cut out a bunny from the each of the top pieces of the bread from the mini sandwiches. I then switch between and chocolate and white bread for the bunnies, and gave the white bunnies some facial detail cut out from seaweed.
Just some simple touch up and JQ was extremely pleased with his snacks, which he always so eager to show his teacher every time I drop him to the nursery.
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Looks great and a wonderful idea for Easter.
Yeapies – Hey, what a good idea! Shall keep that in mind
Simple is nice
Evelyn – Thank you!
简单又具创意。犀利：P
莎莎妈咪sab – 谢谢!
Happy Monday Ai Ping! Love the idea of 2-tones bread with rabbit cut out. Looks wonderful!
Lia Chen – Thank you! I like those small cutters as they make cute & precise cut outs
This is cute idea! I ever did it before and it was really fun
tatabonita – Oh yes, they are really speedy yet cute right?
simple, yet cute and nice..
prince n princess mum – Thanks!
simple, cute, and delicious.
Yuli Saputra – Thank you!
Lovely idea, I will buy a different flavoured bread and give it a try.
I start packing bento for E when he was 3, me too also brain washed him to remember to bring back all the picks and barans.
And he never failed me so far.
bobo – Oh yes, this one is really speedy but still cute, try it out! Wow, your 3 years old already can be brain washed! Let me try it out yeah, maybe with some cheaper accessories first, haha…
哇！初次到访，您有好多漂亮的作品，看得我眼花缭乱，真的很棒！
以后向您多学习哦！
Teddy Bento – 你那里也是看得我眼花缭乱啦! 也要向你偷师
JQ is so sweet, his reaction must have made you more eager to make other cute bento
This bento looks yummy
Sysyl – Exactly! Because he likes it, I feel more eager to make him some cute snacks!
Super cute finger sandwiches!
Susan – Thanks! And speedy too
Super cute! What a great idea! Now I’ll have to buy different breads and give these a try!
Ludicrous Mama – Thank you!
simple and cute. Great idea, Ai Ping.
Emily Ng – Thanks!
great idea to use two types of bread! i lost quite a few picks.. but i, being kiasu bought 2 packs of those i really like! =)
karen – Maybe I should do like what you did!