Cold turkey with sugary cereals

Ladan and I went shopping together one morning a few days ago and walked out of the store with a few bags of groceries trying to figure out where we had just spent 50 Turkish lira (US $34). We had a few essentials including a pound of  olives which cost $1.00, a big hunk of local cheese which cost about the same, cartons of milk and a couple of boxes of cocoa puffs and Capt'n Crunch equivalent. We've purchased these for the kids thinking of them as comfort foods in a new place but these junky cereals and milk are even more expensive here than in the U.S. Time to get healthy. Tomorrow I plan to buy some fresh bread early in the morning and start the kids off with a more traditional Turkish breakfast of bread, cheese, olives and tea. If they really have to have something sweet there is an amazing variety of honey available e.g. raw, processed, with and without honeycomb, sorted by flower and so forth. 

I'll let you know how it goes. Schlichting kids, if you are reading this you need to go back to your homework.

Update (Sept 26): We've been out of cereal for the past few days and the breakfast transition hasn't been too bad. We plow through a lot of fresh bread, cheese, sour cherry jam, honey and olives but that's what we hoped for so I guess it's just the volumes that are surprising. Milk is for coffee only now and even that's on the wane as we drink more and more chai (tea). No one would mistake us for Turkish yet but almost nothing in our current diet resembles what we were eating when we left Phila.