Magic Time!

We have had a little excitement at breakfast times in our Juba home this week...

I found a new kind of cereal in town!

It was on special offer: just 20 South Sudanese pounds a box = around 80 pence. What a bargain for Juba!!! This is truly an unheard-of price for cereal here!

Normally, we just eat Weetabix for breakfast, because it is the only cereal with a decent price in Juba, at around £5 a box. Most of the other cereals are priced around £8 a box. I find it very difficult to pay £8 for a box of cereal which lasts about 3 days!

However, these "Magic Time" bargains were not to be ignored! I happily stored 5 boxes of this "magic" cereal in our larder. The expiry date is for December - hence the special price!! They already feel a little less crunchy than they maybe ought to, but we don't care.
I have never heard of "Magic Time" Cereal before, but once again, we don't care. The vital thing is that this cereal is NOT Weetabix!!
I am happy to report that the children love them...

However, I am not one to go for sugary cereals myself, so with the money saved from the boxes of  "Magic Time", I went a bit wild and treated myself to this:

The price seemed rather eye-watering, at 153 South Sudanese Pounds:

I tried not to work out this cost in English money. I preferred to be in denial about the amount of money I was spending on a single box of cereal! Anyway, last week's exchange rate was 16 South Sudanese Pounds to 1 American dollar and then I still needed to convert that to English pounds. All that arithmetic was a little challenging for my mental maths whilst I was out and about on a shopping trip!

Impulsively, I grabbed the Rice Crispies, paid for them along with the Magic cereal and took it all home. I have been enjoying a bit of Snap, Crackle and Pop every morning this week- what a nice change from Weetabix! It was a little on the expensive side, but with fluctuating exchange rates, I am still rather hazy as to the exact price!

Still. at least we got a bargain for the children's breakfasts, with our nearly-finished Apple Rings, our (not-so) Crunchy Way and our Choco-Wows!!