by Cindy
For those of you that know Jeff and I well, you know that we love cereal. Morning, noon or night, we are happy with a bowl of cereal for any meal. Prior to our departure, our evenings were filled with many goodbye dinners and we were looking forward to arriving in Sharjah and having cereal again.
Our first trip to the grocery store was simple - our list comprised of oatmeal, raisins, bread, peanut butter, jelly, milk and cereal. No problem.
Oatmeal. Check. No selection here but we did find Quaker Oats oatmeal. They had several porridge options but I'm not really sure what porridge is...
Raisins. Check. We immediately found white raisins which are just as good. They had numerous dried fruit options.
Bread. Check. Wheat bread, white bread, multi grain bread, pita bread, you name it, they had it.
Peanut Butter. Check. Jif reduced fat crunchy. Just like home.
Jelly. Check. They only had one grape option which was pricey but they had numerous strawberry options. No problem.
Milk. Check. We couldn't find skim / no fat milk but we did find low fat cows milk. They also have "full fat" and "double fat" if you are so inclined.
And finally, cereal. They don't have the full aisle devoted to cereal like we have in the States but they did have about 1/2 of an aisle to choose from. Out of that selection, about 1/3 of the aisle was Corn Flakes. They have boxes of Corn Flakes that contain 164 servings! The didn't have any Honey Bunches of Oats or any Frosted Mini Wheats. They did have Honey Nut Cheerios but no regular Cheerios. They had one box that resembled Raisin Bran but it was more like mini-wheats stuffed with raisins. It was crazy expensive, too. We settled for Corn Flakes, only 40 servings though. : )
Here is the tally:
Oatmeal 7.75 Dhs / $2.11
Raisins 9.10 Dhs / $2.47
Whole grain bread 5.25 Dhs / $1.43
Peanut Butter 10.55 Dhs / $2.87
Jelly 10.25 Dhs / $2.79
1/2 gallon milk 10 Dhs / $2.72
Corn Flakes 5.95 Dhs / $1.62
Total 58.85 Dhs / $16.03
All in all, our trip was a success. Cheap, too. If you ever want to send a care package our way, we love cereal!
Would need an address to send food package.
ReplyDeleteEmail me your address, and if it doesn't cost too much, I don't mind sending you some! What are your favorite kinds?
ReplyDeleteSo do I understand that you would like to have Honey Bunches of Oats and Frosted Mini Wheats? We'll see what we can do!
ReplyDeleteJust getting to read the blog and the back posts. I can't understand why you didn't choose the double-fat milk.
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