Sam's Bento Box

Second week of school, this week Sam starts early and finishes late...now the real school life has started. This morning Sam kept asking me 'why do I have to go to school everyday, mum?' and I answered because you'll learn new thing...he's not quite convinced. Until he saw I took out some spicy anchovy from the pantry then he changed his question...'can I please have the anchovy for my lunch, mum?' So today no baking but I still used some baking tool actually the cookies cutter. Cookies cutter always come in handy in preparing kids meal especially the cutter with fancy shapes.

I cut a roasted seaweed sheet into 3 thin stripes and stuffed medium size heart cutter with some chicken rice ( left over from dinner :-) ). Wrap the seaweed stripes around the heart shape rice ball, the seaweed sticks perfectly onto the rice. Sprinkle some japanese rice seasoning onto the heart rice rolls.

For the salad, you can use any vegetables that you like. With my salad, I used cucumber, boiled carrot & cauliflower and my son favourite fruit lychee (deseeded). Finished with japanese mayonaise and sprinkle some japanese rice seasoning.

Anchovy (ikan bilis, my son calls it) is high in calcium and protein so I added some for appetizer. Not to much as it's very high in sodium as well.

Hope you enjoy this bento box as much as my Sam... :-)