September Bento Challenger - Admins

Bento 1: The puppy is sad she lost her bone, little did she realise it's on the tree stump behind the fence!

Puppy is a cheese bun with sausage ears with cheese and nori facial details, cherry tomatoes, tree stump is charcoal swiss roll with a cheese bone cut out, a couple of sausage flowers with carrots posts at the very back.
~ Rozi Yunos

Bento 2: Flower for my ladybugs

Flower is sliced sausage in rings with cheese and carrot cutouts, ladybugs is sausage ends with nori and raw spaghetti sticks, they're on a bed of spaghetti with bolognese sauce underneath, the rest are apple bunnies, orange slices, grapes and purple cabbage coleslaw.
~ Rozi Yunos

Bento 3: Very cross eyed Tony Tony Chopper (well you would be too if you don't wear goggles underwater) , looking around at all the fishes and hunting for that sunken blueberry basket.

Chopper is made of short grain rice, fishes are sausages and carrots, lots of brocolli and blueberry for desert
~ Chloe Heng

September Bento Challenger - Lulu Soo Ching Lio

Bento 1: Sausage octopus gathering on fired noodles ... Carrots for the flower n heart ..

Bento 2: Broccoli and carrots around my lovely pinky pigs , the sausage for nose and ears ;) !!

Bento 3: Simple bento , sausage egg flower , broccoli with carrots .

September Bento Challenger - Daisy Selalu

CONGRATULATIONS!!

September Bento Challenge Winner!!

Bento 1: Lunch at McD's

-Miniature cheese burger is made of sausage, cheese, salami, and salad, pinned together with a pick.
-French fries is made of sausage cut into strips and colored with a bit of yellow food-dye, and put into a package made from wax paper.
-Milk shake is a small piece of sausage wrapped with wax paper and a straw cut short.

-Beef fried rice, salad and peach.

Bento 2: American Breakfast

Chef Aleesya is frying some eggs (cheese) and sausages (cut sausages) in the pan. She is also serving chocolate cheesecake (tamago and sausage), kiwi (sausage, cucumber and black sesame seed) and fresh oranges (carrot and edamame).

Bento 3: B IS FOR BENTO

Aleesya is in class and learning the ABCs and the 123s. She has got her writing pad (rice, blue-coloured bee hoon, crab stick and black-coloured alphabet pasta), her pencil (sausage, egg sheet, kamaboko and nori), and her books (kamaboko and egg sheet).

September Bento Challenger - Clare McFlynn-Goewey

Bento 1: rice with sweetcorn bread flower, the small flowers are carrot and cheese and thd large flower has egg in the middle and sausage petals.

Bento 2: halloween bento!! Im getting in some practice for my daughters birthday.
The ghosts are cheese and wholemeal bread and also sweet potatoes.
The mummies are sausages wrappedvin pastry with cheese for their eyes!!

 Bento 3: I love you lunch!
Heart rice with a little pink food colouring, sausage hearts, heart cheese sandwich, heart carrots and heart eggs!

September Bento Challenger - Jill Josry

Bento 1: Miniature Hot Dogs

Miniature Hot Dogs: Chicken sausage, cheese, salad and tomato sauce placed on spaghetti.

Grapes, sausage & cheese slices 'shish kebabs' on picks.

Salads & flower sausages as fillers :)

Bento 2: Party Animals

Animals are all made out of sausages, sesame seeds for eyes and nose, cheese on bear, corn on Hello Kitty and an apple bow (pretty sad looking HK too ;) ) & also sausage, cucumber & sesame seeds watermelon.

Rice, lightly seasoned with sesame seeds.

Grapes & apples in cups.

And ketchup in bunny sauce bottle.

Bento 3: Ponyville's Newest Friend - Winter Melody

On Unicorn: Rice, coloured spaghetti for hair & tail, carrot horn, sesame seed eye, nori nose & smile and rainbow rice Cutie Mark :)

Salad Forest, carrot sun, apple flowers, broccoli & sausage tree!

And sausage ground!

September Bento Challenger - Craft Craze

Bento 1: sausages day out at the beach... mini cupcakes are sausages with tomato ketchup, cheese, mayonnaise & mustard toppings, scrambled egg underneath cupcakes, sandcastle is sausage, rock melon, blueberries & heart shaped green apple... the sand are breadcrumbs :)

Bento 2: flowers (sausage, carrots, cucumber, green apple, pumpkin, egg, cherry tomatoes) lettuce, strawberries & grapes :)

Bento 3: heart shaped sausage, mini pizza sausage, sausage in oyster shell(pita bread) pearl(cheese), lettuce, scrambled egg & oranges :)

September Bento Challenger - Irfan Wafiq

Bento 1: Colourful Bread with jam filling, Rob made with white egg and cheese, his friend made with sausage and cheese, words and stars made with cheese.

Bento 2: 'Rilakumma Satay'
Rilakumma made by sausage and cheese
Kuah satay made of egg sheet
Food picks made by myself.

Bento 3: 'Squirrel with her nut'
Squirrel made of sausage and cheese
Nut made of sausage and nori
Bread roll with nutella jam
Below squirel and nut are steam cup cakes

September Bento Challenger - Siew Ping Mendes

Bento 1: 'Peek a boo',  little girl behind rainbow balan made of sausage with nori details on spaghetti, sausage hands, accompanied by corn on cob, carrot sticks, grapes and papaya, and flower cheese.

Bento 2: 'Thumpety thump!' sausage rabbits on tuna mayo sandwiches accompanied by apple rabbits, grapes, endamame and carrots.

Bento 3: 'The singing snail'...sausage snail with crabstick star studded mantou shell, accompanied by grapes, carrot and apples.

September Bento Challenge - SAUSAGES

September Bento Challenge & A Royal Wedding

PLEASE ADHERE TO THE RULES.

The challenge;

* One week only 7 days = 3 bentos.

* All photos must be up on the group page by Saturday 29th midnight - to give people ample time to 'like' your bentos.

* You may post photos anytime during the challenge week

* In every bento, there must be the star ingredient. This months challenge ingredient is SAUSAGES!

* Brunei Bentos! Members Only! Admins not eligible but may still join in the fun

* Post the picture of your bento include a description of what is in your bento and what you did special for the star ingredient.

* When you post the bento of your choice make sure you include ; SEPTEMBER BENTO CHALLENGE 1/2/3 (in capitals!)

* PHOTOS MUST BE POSTED ON THE BRUNEI BENTOS! WALL (no sharing from personal albums)

* The Member with the most total likes for their bento for the whole week wins! Eg ; 1+2+3 (numbers of likes for each bento each day) = 6 likes

* No new members will be added from now and during challenge week.

* Challenge Bento must be in a Bento Box

* Challenge Participant who do not complete all three bentos within the week is automatically disqualified.

* To eliminate confusion during Challenge Week, non Challenge photos will be REMOVED (you may repost after Challenge Week is over or just save it until then).

The Prize;

-Check out the pretty prize poster-

August Bento Challenge - On a break!

Due to the fasting month or Rhamadan and the celebration of Eid Ul Fitr, it has been decided Brunei Bentos! will take a break from Fun Friday, Silly Sunday and Monthly Bento Challenge. We figured everybody will be too occupied during these time. We shall resume in September!

Happy Fasting to all muslims and Happy Eid Ul Fitr to all!

In the mean time we're using the month for Brunei Bentos! members to showcase their bento gears on the group wall.

July Bento Challenger - BB! Admins

Bento 1: Shell pasta crabs on a bed of shell pasta with marinara sauce, sea anemone green sponge cake, a couple of hard boiled quail eggs, some grapes and broccoli ~ Rozi Yunos

Bento 2: Swamp thing. Spinach tagliatelle with homemade basil pesto, tomato for eyes, lettuce and broccoli as fillers ~ Chloe Heng

Bento 3: "Hide and Seek" .. help Mr. Turtle find the starfishes. Spinach tagliatelle with homemade basil pesto, ladies fingers and tomato for decoration, Mr.Turtle is green round eggplant, starfishes are carrot ~ Chloe Heng

July Bento Challenger - Craft Craze

CONGRATULATIONS

For being our July Bento Challenge overall winner!

As voted by members of the Brunei Bentos! group on Facebook

Bento 1: Spaghetti, mini sausages, bolognaise sauce, alphabet carrots, yellow capsicum, flower radish, celery, meringue & marshmallow :)

Bento 2: Coloured ribbon pasta, pasta sauce, doughnut shaped nutella bread, whale & penguin nutella bread, strawberries, grapes, kiwis & cherries :)

Bento 3: WELCOME TO THE ZOO!... animal pasta, salmon, egg, animal shaped carrots, red velvet, cherries, blueberries & grapes :)

July Bento Challenger - Chuan Jia Loh

Bento 1: Baked macaroni with bacon, Savory Yorkshire pudding, steamed sweet corn and brocolli and cherries.

Bento 2: Rotelline pasta with bolognaise sauce, mash potato with bacon, quail egg, broccoli, sweet corn and kiwi.

Bento 3: Squid ink arrabiata pasta with prawns, crab stick and cucumber/carrot salad, kiwi, broccoli and Japanese baked fish cake.

July Bento Challenger - Jessie Pang

Bento 1: Soba noodles with edamame fence, gyoza dumplings, Sakura carrots and quail egg with pasta bow. Sauce and fruits packed into a separate tier :)

Bento 2: Golden nuggets and the 3 bears. Homemade chicken nuggets with veggie bear pasta. Accompanied by cherries

Bento 3: Scary Mummy spaghetti with tuna & veg pasta sauce. Cherries for dessert

July Bento Challenge - PASTA

uly Bento Challenge & Happy 66th Birthday To His Majesty

PLEASE ADHERE TO THE RULES.

The challenge;

* One week only 7 days = 3 bentos.
* All photos must be up on the group page by Saturday 28th midnight - to give people ample time to 'like' your bentos.
* You may post photos anytime during the challenge week
* In every bento, there must be the star ingredient. This months challenge ingredient is Pasta/Noodles!
* Brunei Bentos! Members Only! Admins not eligible but may still join in the fun
* Post the picture of your bento include a description of what is in your bento and what you did special for the star ingredient.
* When you post the bento of your choice make sure you include ; JULY BENTO CHALLENGE 1/2/3 (in capitals!)
* PHOTOS MUST BE POSTED ON THE BRUNEI BENTOS! WALL (no sharing from personal albums)
* The Member with the most total likes for their bento for the whole week wins! Eg ; 1+2+3 (numbers of likes for each bento each day) = 6 likes
* No new members will be added from now and during challenge week.
* Challenge Bento must be in a Bento Box
* Challenge Participant who do not complete all three bentos within the week is automatically disqualified.
* To eliminate confusion during Challenge Week, non Challenge photos will be REMOVED (you may repost after Challenge Week is over or just save it until then).

The Prize:

July Silly Sunday - Lego & Ribbons

It's SILLY SUNDAY BENTO time. For those of you who are new to the group every second week of each month is SILLY SUNDAY BENTO. a bento just for fun for sunday. this is to help everyone get their creative juices flowing without the pressure of our monthly challenge. And you get to choose the theme! Remember; no food items. pick a theme any theme. the choice is yours!

So the theme for SILLY SUNDAY BENTO is LEGO & RIBBONS

Craft Craze: Pasta bows, pie pops, rock melon balls, and chocolate lego bricks and robots.

Jessie Pang: Cinnamoroll onigiri, chicken wing, ma po tofu, papaya 'lego' bricks, homemade chicken nuggets, blueberries

Khalisah Qaisara: Peanut butter 'lego' sandwich, banana, tiramisu cupcakes, corn kernals

Rozi Yunos: Kolo mee pok, onion ribbon, chicken satay, cupcake, 'lego' watermelon bricks.

July Fun Friday - Polka Dots!

It's FUN FRIDAY BENTO time. For those of you who are new to the group every first week of each month is FUN FRIDAY BENTO. a bento just for fun for friday. this is to help everyone get their creative juices flowing without the pressure of our monthly challenge. And you get to choose the theme! Remember; no food items. pick a theme any theme. the choice is yours!

So the theme for FUN FRIDAY BENTO is RED POLKA DOTS

Craft Craze:  apple tree using white bread and mini m&m's, apple mushroom, homemade onde-onde, animal pasta and carrot :)

Rachael Tan: Sausage with mushroom in wholemeal roll, cheese slice, and red 'polka dots' grapes. Dessert bento, ice cream with shortbread and raspberries.

Rozi Yunos: Puzzle sandwiches, polka dot apple and mini orange.

Siew Ping Mendes: Cut fruits, carrot sticks, bear bread ball (jam and cheese), raisins in polka dot box.

June Bento Challenger - BB! Admins

BB! Admin bento 1: Elmo apple with Baby David onigiri. Grapes, cherry tomatoes, cube cheese and a quail egg ~ Rozi 

BB! Admin bento 2: Kermit the green apple frog, helping a lost quail egg chick that wandered to his pond of assorted vegetable tempura, baby carrots, tomato chicken and cubed compressed rice, with celery, chicken ham and pink dembu as waterlilies ~ Rozi

BB! Admin bento 3: I am Iron Man! red apple with cheese and nori details, sitting on a sweet purple potato bread sandwich, with broccoli and cherry tomatoes on the side ~ Chloe

June Bento Challenger - Jessie Pang

Bento 1: Ahoy Mateys!
Chicken ham & cheese monkey sandwich with an apple headscarf. Pasta with assorted veggies. Dragonfruit, mandarin and green tea chocolate

Bento 2: My funny orange friend in an apple basket decorated with blueberries and grapes. Papaya cubes, ham & cheese roll rainbow bread roll ups, japanese cotton cheesecake, green tea red bean swiss roll slice, carrot & walnut and vanilla cupcake (Lots of natural and artificial sugar here so its not for the toddler! hehe)

Bento 3: Gobble Gobble Turkey. Smoked salmon & cream cheese sandwiches with apple (tail) slices and grapes