I was using my cutters to get the animal shapes for today's bento. There were 3 layers for the rabbit and bears. The layers from the top to bottom : chicken smoked ham, egg sheet, and steamed rice. In the other box : mandarin orange, strawberry, cucumber, flower carrots, pea pods, and fried mackerel with tomato sauce. I stamped the cucumber with my tiny flower cutter for the 'green' baran and love the result. Cutters saved me a lot of time to prepare this bento. I will post the picture of the animal cutters that I used on my Twitter later.

Today's bugs love was made from 2 rice balls. And for today's 'green' baran, I chose 2 colors corn. This bento will be my second entry for B.O.M.B Challenge this month. If you would like to join, please read more on Hapa Bento. It's fun to participate! Kids have been busy reviewing their lessons lately because they will have mid test at the end of March. I will not make any exercise papers for them this time. Hope they can read and study their lessons without my help.

Inside today's bento ... (green box) : 2 rice balls stuffed with tuna curry, pea pods, and carrot flowers ... (yellow box) : noddle, brussel sprouts, beef, chikuwa, 2 colors corn, baby kiwi, grape tomatoes, and kumquats.

Today's bento was pretty simple, it didn't take too long to prepare. I mentioned before about B.O.M.B's Green Baran Challenge for this month organized by Debra from Hapa Bento. So, my 'green' baran for today was steamed broccoli with carrot flowers on the top. The little twins princes were made of rice and decorated with the egg sheet, red part of crab stick and nori. Inside was stuffed with pork mince. On the top section are fruits (strawberries, kumquat, grapes) and cucumber & pork sausages in pink silicone food cup. I've got the new food picks last week and posted the picture on my Twitter. As a 'bento addict' I don't know when I will able to stop collecting all bento stuffs. No regret though because I'm really enjoying it.

I made a same bento for yesterday and today because the kids were asking for the same Lap Chong Fried Rice. Still in pain on my back leave me no choice except to prepare this quick and easy lunch for the kids. I only managed to make Kiiroitori because was easy to make. I think this time I should be forgiven for not being able to complete the main character which is Rilakkuma. But wait! Can that lid of the Rilakkuma bento box count? Today will be the last day for San-X characters theme. For next week, I will have to figure out some ideas for Debra's B.O.M.B challenge on Hapa Bento. Everyone can participate, just read her blog regarding this.

RILAKKUMA is a brown bear that usually accompanied by white bear called Korilakkuma and the yellow chick called Kiiroitori.

Inside the box : lap chong (chinese pork sausage) fried rice, quail egg, edamame, slices of cucumber & roma tomato, and egg for decorations.

I was happy when I made these 2 characters of Mamegoma. Finally, I can showed the lid of the Mamegoma's lunch box hehehe ... how childish! We got a lot of Mamegoma's stationery. We here, mean my kids and I. I even got the Mamegoma's folder for my documents. We just love cute things ;) And before I forgot to explain, the blue nose was from fish ball that I soaked for a few minutes in the water with blue food coloring. I just wish we have the blue kamaboko here.

MAMEGOMA is a series of world's smallest seal characters so it can put on your hand. The white one is called Shiro Goma and the pink one is called Sakura Goma. The seals are very playful, they love swimming in the water and waddle on land too. Besides Shiro Goma and Sakura Goma, they are still plenty of others like Beni Goma, Sora Goma, Kuro Goma, Shima Goma, etc.

Inside the box : boiled brussel sprouts, chicken with oyster sauce, egg rolls & nori egg rolls, and beef sausages.