My kids can’t watch TV on school nights, so we have to think of something to keep them occupied. Besides playing and reading, they like to prepare their own food too. They are too young to prepare our meals, of course, but they can certainly do simple things like Justin helping me to wash the veggie, and Isabelle helping daddy to set the table. By not having a maid at home, my kids are getting more independent now. But still, we have a housekeeper who comes in almost everyday to help me with the chores. If not, I will definitely “khi siao” with the housework and please don’t tell me that doing house chores is the best fat burner ok? I’m too busy…….

One of their favorite activities is making their own jelly. They have done this a few times, and previously, I used the raw jelly. But now, hubby bought the gelatin powder, which makes things easier.

Mixing gelatin powder with water

Check check and see if it’s still hot. Mommy, add cold water pls…..

Ok, cold liao. Let’s pour it into our star shape mould.

Isabelle still needs some help with this…

There you go. Just refrigerate it overnight and they will have desserts the next day.

This morning, my kids asked for bentos again. I didn’t have time to prepare as my head was spinning with flu bug attack. Thus, I took out the color animal picks and let them have fun “preparing” their own bentos.

Just put one animal pick on each sandwich cube…simple huh?

Justin’s bento

So, maybe I will get them involved in preparing their bentos more often. Right now, mommy and daddy are a bit sick. Can the kids fix dinner tonight? LOL! Just kidding la…