The Price Is Right

Want a special treat for breakfast? What would that be in your house? Waffles? Pancakes? Eggs? Our normal breakfast is toast with jam often accompanied by an egg or two. Our special treat is cereal - once or twice a month we have cereal for breakfast. Why? Cereal that doesn't taste like cardboard (or sugar-soaked cardboard) is expensive.

Let's play the Price is Right! Arrange these cereals and the carton of milk from least expensive to most expensive. You have the following hints:

• the Cheerios were purchased in the United States and brought to us as a gift by a visitor 
• the Rice Chex were purchased in Nairobi
• the semi-skimmed (3%) milk is in a 2-liter jug

And here's the answer priced in US Dollars:

• A 2-liter jug of 3% milk (as "skim" as we can get it) is $2.46 which equates to $4.67 a gallon
• Toons Honey Crisps from Egypt (Krista won't eat these they're so bad): $2.95
• Cheerios brought to us from the States: Free to us but likely around $3.00 a box on sale in the US
• O-Tees from South Africa: $7.06
• Kellogg's Raisin Wheats from England: $8.24
• Rice Chex (bought to make Muddy Buddies as a very special treat): $8.24

Today Josiah had some Rice Chex, Raisin Wheats, and Toons Honey Crisps - he likes variety. Krista had Grape Nuts (not pictured because they never get put out when Josiah is choosing because he'll eat them and they're for Krista - they were also brought to us by a visitor). I had Toons Honey Crisps. Mmmmm. Sugar-soaked cardboard psuedo-Kix. A special treat indeed.

-Shauen