I think the thing my kids miss the most about home (aside from Buster, of course) is pancakes. In our real life, I make homemade pancakes for breakfast about twice a week. Here, I don't really have the ingredients or kitchen items needed to make them from scratch. My friend Paula discovered a grocery store in Warsaw that sells international items, so we went there in search of pancake mix.

We found it, as well as other things like syrup, cookie mix and American mustard. The kids were so happy! Please notice that the macaroni and cheese is not Kraft Dinner, but is produced by Kraft. It did not taste the same. Is that weird? Anyway, I digress. The pancake mix we were able to get came in a shake and make bottle. You just add water, shake it up and make yummy pancakes. Easy peasy!

The bad news is that one bottle made six tiny little pancakes. One for each of us (except Gord, who was at work). Given that I paid about $100 Cdn for the groceries you saw above, we will not be having pancakes again while we are here.

Too bad though, because they were a big hit!