I saw this broken glass pudding while I was surfing for recipes a couple of weeks ago and I really loved it so I proposed making this kind of pudding to my wife and she’s agree, as long as I’m the one who make it. No problem for me.

The original recipe was using jell-o with various kinds of colors but my wife doesn’t like jell-o because (and I agree) she thinks that thing has too much artificial flavors and coloring. The other reason I don’t use it because those stuff are imported so the price is too pricey for just a pudding.

We have this local brand gelatin powder which my wife uses very often for Jojo’s afternoon snack at home but she’s only using the uncolored one. For this project I had to buy every color that available; green, red, orange, and chocolate. I really like to make the blue and purple color using some artificial food coloring but of course my wife was against the idea.

I made each color and put them separately on several trays. After hardened I cut the jelly into chunks and mixed them together into large tray and then poured the still liquid white pudding (uncolored gelatin plus white milk) to cover them all.

In the morning I cut them into pieces and pack them in food containers for Jojo and his friends. It turned out that the orange and chocolate color looks almost the same (I still want to use some coloring to make them more colorful). I don’t know if they like it or not but the teacher said that all the kids finished the snacks. Hmmm, maybe they just hungry ^_^

I really wanted to make a colorful bowtie pasta bento since they looked very cute in those bento mooks but I’d never seen those kind of pasta anywhere and I don’t really want to import those. The usual pasta that available around in most supermarkets are spaghetti, macaroni, fusilli, and lasagna, but they only available in one color, the usual yellow one.

We have regular stock of spaghetti and macaroni in our kitchen since my wife often cooked macaroni for our son while I often use spaghetti served with fish and fruits salad. We only had a little bit of macaroni and maybe my wife wanted to use them so I used the spaghetti with meat and tomato sauce.

I separate the meat sauce and the spaghetti with loads of lettuce to prevent the leak. There’s lots of open space around spaghetti area, so I added some carrot flowers with outer peas skin for the leaf and stalk. I don’t have flower mold so I used the knife.

For the other box pair, which separated in two container, I put some fruits cocktail with very tasty chocolate and mango pudding my wife made yesterday. The pudding was cast with rilakuma mold.

Finally, the octopus bento, my my their looked ugly indeed. I need to practice more with this sausage art, between boiling and cooking, the initial cutting, choosing the right sausage brands, among other thing. Hope next time I can find a good combination of those and make a good looking sausage ^_^