January 24, 2013

Quick and Easy: Freshly-Made Bento School Lunches

I have featured lunches that are quick and easy to prepare in the morning. I wake up 30 minutes before the kids to prepare for breakfast and lunch.   Each meals featured below are tried and tested to be packed under 20 minutes.

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December 16, 2011

Bento Weekly - Round 9

Monday (12/12) Cheese Quesadilla, Hotdog slices and corn kernels.
Ketchup on smidgets.
Tuesday (12/13) Asian salad with carrot chips, crab sticks,
shrimps and oranges.  Ranch and Mayo on smidgets.
Wednesday (12/14) Corndog, corn kernel and kiwi slices
Thursday (12/15) Cheese pizza, red grapes and broccoli
Friday (12/16) Turkey Crescents, carrot chips with ranch,
Asian pears.
It's my last week of packing school lunches.  And I am so proud of myself for not stumbling even for a day.  I have packed healthy and scrumptious meal to my son.  He enjoyed it and I'm happy.  Thanks for keeping up with me too.  I'll see you next year for another batch of school meals.  

For now, I will be busy crafting with my kids at home.  We have pledge to dress up our home with handcrafted Christmas decors.  I will post them on my other blogsite.  If you wish to visit it, please do so.  It's called MommyHOOD.  See you there!

Have a happy Christmas ahead of you!  Enjoy your break.

September 2, 2011

Day 2: Vegetable & Shrimp Eggrolls & Corn Kernels







We're teaming up with fellow food bloggers to host a Brown-Bag Challenge, a month-long initiative to eat consciously and save money by packing a lunch each weekday instead of eating out. Join us here and share what you're eating on Facebook andTwitter with the hashtag #brownbag.



What's in your brown bag today?  I was feeling a little bit adventurous on the second day of challenge.  So I tried a different set of meal for my son to school today.  I know that eggrolls with ketchup rice are his absolute favorite, but hasn't tried eating it in school yet.  I know what you're thinking, but it's what makes him eat, so I let him have it.  But he didn't want that to bring it in school. He said it's quite messy to squirt ketchup packets on his rice.  Considering the fact that his classmates might stare at him while he's busy preparing his yummy lunch. So I thought of an alternative to rice.  And I thought of corn kernels. It's perfect because it fills you just the way rice does.   And I'm glad I have 3 bags of it in my freezer. I fried the eggrolls, blotted the excess oil before I even packed it.  I lined the container with paper towels to ensure that the eggrolls stay crunchy, and not soggy. If you have waxpaper, use that instead.  Then I gave him about half a cup of corn kernels with a dash of salt, and a plum for dessert.  Then I stowed a juice pouch and a bottled water in his lunch bag.  Perfect!