Natural Health Blog

Haven't been updating my bento blog lately as most of my meals have been made speedily without any decorations! These past few days of Hari Raya holiday ate a lot of unhealthy food from eating out frequently and less homecook meals. Hopefully I didn't put on some weight, must go on the treadmill and bike everyday to burn off...sigh!!
Just discovered an interesting natural health blog with lots of information on various health issues ranging from alternative therapies, exercise, men's/women's health, to nutrition updated daily. Most of the articles are very useful in our daily life usage and knowledge as well.
I should be adopting a more healthy lifestyle to boost up my immune system rather than taking vitamin C too often and substitute that with more fruits and vegetables.
Wishing a Happy Hari Raya and holiday to all muslim friends!

Health Forum

Everyone in the office seems to be falling ill nowadays with very weak and low immune system of late.To stay healthy and build up our immune system is the best way to counter any virus infections. With so many cases of A(H1N1) is better to take precaution and join a health forum to learn more about the latest health issues happenings around the world.
Eating a balance diet is a must nowadays as the food we eat causes a lot of side effects without us knowing. Most are loaded with pesticides or antibiotics and are harmful to our health when consume in large quantities. Nowever I stumble upon this forum which has a lot of nutrition information provided from vitamins to organic food. Sometimes I feel is best to pack a bento lunch to work rather than eating out as I find the food outside is too S.O.S ( salty, oily, sweet).
To prepare what to cook at home, do check out these easy recipes from the forum which has lots of ideas on preparation ranging from fruit juices to anti cancer soup!
It's better be fit rather than stocking up on tamiflu or be wearing what N95 mask which doesn't really filter the virus as most N95 respirators are design to filter 95% particulates of 0.3micron while the size of the virus is about 0.1micron!
Some simple preventive tips will be frequent hand washing, resist temptation to touch any part of face, gargling with warm salt water to prevent proliferation, eat more vitamin C and drink warm liquid.
Happy breathing + bento-ing!!

Cute Expression CARLA CRAFT Punchers for Sale!

Selling RM12.90/USD4.00 each excluding postage. Postage will be base on post office rates. Anyone interested please email me at aloke28@yahoo.com

Lucky Dog and Pig out of stock at the moment.

More Bento Tools.....

Rounded rice mould in different sizes, alphabet A-Z cutters, number 1-9 cutters, Hello Kitty ice/jelly tray, small animal/Stitch/Hello Kitty picks, Stitch baran, Melody+Piano and Sugar Bunnies steel bento box. Special Thanks to Shoppingmum for sending the Melody+Piano steel box all the way from Thailand for me!

Carla Craft "Expression" Punchers completed + new Bento Tools!

Finally with the purchased of the last 2 shown below, my collection of "expression" Carla Craft punchers are completed..hooray!! Took me sometime to accumulate all the punchers checking out the stores on and off. Hopefully I didn't miss out any ......Lol! For anyone doing kyaraben bento these are a must for nori as they are real sharp and durable, my all time favourites.

Sanrio Cinnamonroll egg mould, Sugar Bunnies multi cutter from NST and the last 2 Carla Craft punchers added to my bento tools collection recently. Have yet to test out the bento tools..sigh!

Birthday Butter Marble Cupcakes

Did some marble cupcakes with butter cream and finally used the cute bear+flower Wilton silicon cups bought sometime ago. Have never use silicon to bake before and was afraid it might melt in the oven..LOL! but all came out well and intact!! *phew* There are many Wilton silicon baking cups design available but I love the bear cups the most so adorable...

Close up of the alphabet and musical picks which I use for mother's day bento in my previous post. Those picks are real handy when comes to wordings without using more fattening pure butter cream and not to mention more food colouring too.

Lovely animal picks, one of my all time favourite on the yellow flower cup.

Ribbon picks are so cute. The icing was not nicely spread out cos only used sparingly as it is loaded with tons of calories!!...pure butter+icing sugar la just imagine.

Cute family duck picks just right for small surface deco on cupcakes. Only use one pink colouring in the above, still quite sceptical eventhough is written edible but it does make the cupcakes very beautiful in bright pink though.

Happy Birthday to my sister...hope she doesn't find the cupcakes too fanciful and childish..LOL!!

Furkid on Treadmill!!+Dessert Bento no 38

Dessert bento consists of yummy moist Pandan(Screwpine leaves) Butter cream swiss roll as Furkid with sweet Red Globe grapes in this double tier Pikachu Bento box. Furkid always likes to stick a bit of her tongue out so that's why a bit of grapes skin was used on the butter cream.

Oh dear loads of calories in this bento especially the cream and do you know 25 minutes on the treadmill burns 150 calories only for me guess I have to step up the level...la..yikes!

Furkid on the treadmill!!!

Have a look at the video of furkid on the treadmill "walk walk" indoors. With the hazy weather, sudden rain and all sorts of viruses especially Leptospirosis, Meningitis and Swine Flu or now known as Influenza A(H1N1) is best to do my exercise indoors! with furkid...LOL. Hey my doggy needs her exercise too...or else she will be sulking and pretend to be very sad lying flat down on the floor!*grin*

Have a happy day bento-ing.....

Teddy+Flower Rice moulded bento no 37

Teddy + flower onigiri with half fish shaped egg, prawns, brussel sprouts and carrots.

Make use of the shaped silicon cups on this rice moulded bento with stir fried shelled prawns, brussel sprouts and hard boil egg. Actually this was part of dinner food but ensemble into my new Minnie Mouse bento box for this bento. Filled a little light soya sauce in a cute apple face sauce container for added taste to the half hard boil egg. Details were done with nori and crab stick on the teddy+flower onigiri. Wanted to fill the gaps with lettuce and cherry tomatoes but couldn't find any in the fridge...sigh! Time to go groceries shopping........

New bento tools arrived!

The new 45% rice mould, Rilakkuma cutters, Animal cookies cutters, Brigitte cookie text stamp from Germany, Sandwich bread cutter and Ribbon/Crown/Hat picks.

Ordered some lastest new tools import from Japan online from Bentomarket recently. With the Brigitte cookie text stamp you can bake cookies stamp with your own text, be it your name, message or anything is kind of cool because the fonts are real tiny just right for small cookies. As for the 45% angle rice mould you can make moulded rice tilted facing upwards for a better view of your creations! For inspirations do check out this cute Japanese Bento Blog.

Have fun bento-ing everyone!

Fruits shaped bento no 36

Mangoes and papayas in different shapes in Tomica bento box

Did a mango and papaya fruits bento in my new Tomica bento box which is about 220ml in capacity smaller than the usual ones of 300ml. As you can see from my previous post picture it is not much bigger than a pack of picks! It's kind of small but great as a compliment snack box. Various shapes were cut using miffy, mickey, bear and flower cutters accessorized with lovely picks to beautify the faceless miffi and mickey! LOL!

Happy bento-ing!!