Bento #10

This is yesterday's bento. After the swap post, I didn't get another chance to post again. I thought I would try making a breakfast bento this time; because of my new gym routine, I have been getting to work a lot earlier, therefore having lunch earlier, so I thought it time that a breakfast bento made a show. Along with the main breakfast tier, I also have a snack tier for mid-afternoon.

This is my snack tier. I have lots of yummy blueberries, and apple and peanut butter 'star sandwiches'. These were really nice - I pinched the recipe from BentoTV, and I'm sold. Under all the lollies are more apple slices that I didn't cut into stars, basically just to save time.
The mini MilkyWay and the gummi stars are just gap fillers - I know boyf will probably end up eating these, so that is fine.
I had run out of fruit to fill this tier with, as I'm going on haitus for two weeks starting Saturday, so I had been running the house out of fresh food to avoid throwing too much away.

This is my breakfast tier. I have a dyed, car shaped [thought I'd tell you, because you can't tell this from the photo] devilled egg, some mini tofu hot dogs, a baby bel cheese, and in the silver foil, my toastie wraps [explained below].
In the HK mayo cup I have tomato sauce for the tofu dogs.

These are my toastie wraps. Basically I just got a tortilla wrap, spread some tomato pizza sauce on it, layered sliced chicken and ham over the top, and then sprinkled over some cheese. Then I rolled it up, and cut it in half.
I have wraped them in foil so that when I get to work, I can just toast them on the sandwich press as is, without having to worry if my darling co-workers have cleaned the bloody thing! [Well, I'll have to remove the stickers, and wrap them up a bit better obviously, but you get the point]

Anyway that will be the last bento for a fortnight; as mentioned earlier I'm going on haitus, but will be back! No bento today or tomorrow as there, once again, is no food in our house, so really I'd just be artfully arranging McNuggets or something, in a box, which doesn't actually sound all that appetizing...

Bye for now :-)

Bento Swap on Flickr

This is my bento swap from bentolunches on Flickr. How insane is this swap! I am so thrilled, everything was so perfectly put together. BL got me a complete set of one of my favourite bento collections, and started me off with another of my favourite bento collections, and then, colour co-ordinated all the accessories she included with it. I was over the moon when I unwrapped it all - it was better than Christmas.

This is the gorgeous grape Putifresh bento set - I don't think there could possibly be another item that belongs in this set - I got it all! It came with a bento box and belt, a snack box, chopsticks and cutlery both in a case, a regular bento bag, and an insulated bento bag, and the matching drink bottle bag! OMG in love! I can't believe how lucky I was.

This is the rest of my haul, including my fav - the clickety click bear snack box and bento bag. Also, the egg moulds are great - they finish off what I already had, so I've got the whole set now, and the picks and food dividers were just divine - we can't really get that stuff here, so it always excites me. BL included colour coordinated side dishes, food cups and mayo containers, and I also got that really cool blue face bento. It was such a great surprise - sorry I'm gushing everywhere, but this is exciting stuff you know.

Bento #9

This is a sick day bento, and my brain isn't functioning at the moment so I'll leave it at that. Will update tomorrow - maybe. This is a wrap style tortilla taco, made in under two minutes using leftover dinner.

EDIT: I forgot to mention also, that I had organised a couple of bento swaps through Flickr, which excited me no end. Well anyway, my first swap arrived last Thursday! OMG, so much cool stuff, it was like Christmas - will upload photos later on.

Things have been a bit crazy this week, I've been a little unwell, and have not been able to sleep at all. Between Wednesday last week, and Sunday this week, I have had no more than 8 hours sleep in total. I am absolutely exhausted, but for some crazy reason, my body just won't give up fighting sleep. Anyway, I'm headed of on a holiday this Saturday for a fortnight [so no bento's] so hopefully it will give me just the relaxation I need to catch up on some zzz's.