Busy week planned and wanting to get ahead of school lunches (maybe even your husband’s lunch aswell!) Try boiling a few eggs on Sunday night and popping them into the fridge (in the shell or in an egg mold). In the morning just pop it into the lunchbox and they have that little extra protein to get them through the day!
This is one thing I like to do when boiling an egg. One goes in the egg mold for 5 minutes to be eaten straight away – the others (depending on how many I boil) goes in the fridge for the next few days lunches. Eggs in shells and eggs in the egg mold (sealed and not opened again until ready to eat) will last up to 5 days in the fridge.
To make the perfect molded egg, you must use an ‘old’ egg as ‘fresh’ eggs stick to the side. The older the egg, the easier and cleaner it will peel away from the shell.
How to use an egg mold:
Use Large size eggs.
Hard boil the egg.
Peel away the shells of the egg while still hot (under water is easiest)
Put the hard boiled egg into the mold while an egg is still hot
Cover the mold and lock to create the shape
Wait until the egg becomes cold
Take the egg out of the mold and eat – or pop it (egg in mold) into the lunchbox for a surprise!
On the menu:
Cold Pasta salad with Sausage, Ham, Cheese and Sweetcorn (Hearts cut out with the Mini Food Cutter Set)
Hard Boiled Egg (using a Bunny Egg Mold)
Crackers
Watermelon (using the chicken out of the Animal Rice Mold – which doubles as a food cutter!)
Raisins
OHH!!! I assumed the eggs needed to be hot to mold, and thus that I wouldn’t get it peeled quick enough! Nice to know!
I dump it in cold water til its cool enough to handle then run it under cold water while I peel it – its still hot enough to mold
I have never moulded an egg before, not sure I will either. I have started to get complaints about eggs making kids lunchboxes smell. I feel like I can’t win this packed lunch thing. I love the pasta though, they would all love that and no sauce to leak through their bags.
It won’t make the lunchbox smell if you keep it in the mold (its sealed tight!) and you can even wrap it up in gladwrap just to be doubley sure!
Pasta salad with no sauce is always a winner here!!
I’ve never molded an egg but what a great idea!!!!
Its definitely something that is taking shape in children’s lunchboxes these days!! It is the most used bento tool in the world
Just wondering what brand the lunch box is you used please?
This is the EZ Bento Lunchbox – I sell them in my store – http://littlebentoshop.com/index.php/lunchboxes/ez-bento-lunchbox.html
Great for kids and adults lunches!
Such a great idea to get kids to eat eggs. Mikala loves them moulded in her lunch box. Must remember to take a picture.
Too cute! We eat hard boiled eggs by the bucketload here. I will have to get a mould.
Yum my boys love eggs, and I always wondered how the molded eggs are done!! #TUST
How fun is that! Now if only my kids would eat boiled eggs…
Love the look of the pasta…super easy to put together…I think even I could manage that.
I have never used an egg mould before. In fact until I read your blog I don’t think I had even heard of them before. Thanks for sharing. Interesting to know it is the older eggs that peel better, I had been wondering what was with that.
Jeezus! This looks awesome, but apart from my thoughts on having the time to create a meal like this that my kids wouldn’t eat, can I ask what you do with the off-cuts of the food – like from the watermelon, ham and cheese?
You seem like the kind of person who wouldn’t like wastage, so genuinely interested in what you do?