This is obviously much much simpler and instant compared to last week bento. After all, this is what princess request “Something LIGHT” . She said she can’t stomach in a lot of food yet and she has just recovered from tummy ache. Even after this morning breakfast, she said she had tummy ache.

For lunch, it’s egg sandwich, grapes and pork floss.

For recess, it’s all instant food.

After taking a lot of what I’ve packed, her reaction was

“MUMMMMMMY , why you packed so much again!!! ”

Tell me about it, AM I PACKING TOO MUCH?? This is going to last the whole afternoon till she comes back for dinner.

Bento for last Friday. Egg tart, love letters for recess. Egg and pasta for lunch.

But JS couldn’t finish everything. She claimed that she doesn’t have enough time to eat and asked me never to pack so much food for her.

Scratching head how to pack nice presentable bento if she doesn’t want so many things in it.

I hardly cook lunch , not even when I’ve become a SAHM. I used to cook porridge though and still doing so for baby, but the two older kids usually had food stall food/fast food or left over food from the night before for lunch. Very seldom I cook lunch for them.

Now that JS’s is in afternoon session, I somehow feel that it’s important for her to have home cooked meal before she goes to school. Do not know where this mentality comes from, but just feel that I need to feed her properly (not to say she goes on hunger when I don’t cook lunch) to be ready for school.

So I started cooking lunch. ( Cheated one time this week, by buying the kids McD for lunch) and today I decided to do it in a lunch box since I have started it again 2 days ago.

Lunch for today: Macaroni cheese with mixed vege and tuna,  Kitty shape apple and orange.

I start to pack bento again, not for lunch or snack but for dinner. Need not pack snack for the kids at this moment as WH’s school provide snack and I have paid the school canteen for JS’s meal during recess. Maybe next month I will stop paying the canteen and JS will alternate between packed food from home or buy from the canteen.

Wednesday is the busy day of the week, need to rush to music class after school. Since it’s the first Wednesday after school started, it’s hard for me to estimate the time whether we have enough time to eat at home, change before we go to class. Now that I have confirmed we have time to go home for a shower and quick dinner before going to class. ( JS went to music class in her uniform last Wednesday, not to say we don’t have time to change , but she refused to go home, she wants to eat in the car, since I have packed bento for her 8|

Nothing fancy, since it’s the first bento I’ve prepared after such long break and I was in a hurry , cooked at 5-ish, rained so heavily, wanted to leave home early to get a prime parking spot.

Wanted to decorate the face of POOH shape rice, but ran out of time.

There’s no proper table in the car for her to eat, hence the next day I decided to get her this (Since I’m getting one for JS, it’s also fair to get one for WH too) :

Now, they prefer to dine in the car. Even reach home already also refused to get down.

I thought I will temporary stop preparing bento as most of my tools has been packed away, sealed up in the box. Only left a few egg and rice molds accessible. JS ordered a bento from kitchen last night and she only wanted fruits and egg.

So here’s today’s Bento.

Simple. Don’t even have cutter to shape the fruits and using a wrong size sauce container. On top of this, JS also packed another pack of Teluk Intan Heo Pia to school.

To avoid messiness, I didn’t give WH fruit to bring to school, so I gave him Koko crunch instead.

She came home telling me that the teacher asked her not to pack so much food to school. Probably she’s taking longer than usual to finish the food and recess time is only very short.

Humble and simple lunches for the past 2 days. Really nothing spectacular but I’m glad they gobble down everything.

Part of yesterday lunch. Had another fish to go with that.

Today lunch.