Family Pictures Fall 2009
A few months ago, we dragged grandma up into the mountains and took some family pictures. We took a lot of pictures, but very few seemed to turn out. Now that we’re finally finished sifting and editing, I’ve uploaded some of the best ones.
We got some really good pictures of Grandma with the grandkids.
And Cheryl always seems photogenic.
The Cheerios Sugar Factor
Like many people, I often eat cereal for breakfast. When my wife went on a no-sugar diet a while back, it wreaked havoc on our cereal eating habit because, you see, most breakfast cereals are stuffed with sugar or high fructose corn syrup.
Reading the nutrition labels, however, taught me something interesting: Cheerios has by far the lowest sugar content of any cereal we eat. While shopping, I found myself in disbelief, telling random people in the super market, “Do you know this stuff has twelve times as much sugar as Cheerios?” I started calling it the Cheerios Factor.
To give you an idea, here is a list of some breakfast cereals and their sugar content. Full nutrition information is available online from General Mills, Kellog’s and Quaker. However, Post prefers to summarize it for you.
| Cereal | Serving Size | Sugar | Factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Jacks | 28g | 12g | 12.0x |
| Cheerios | 28g | 1g | 1.0x |
| Cinnamon Life | 32g | 8g | 7.0x |
| Cinnamon Toast Crunch | 31g | 10g | 9.0x |
| Corn Flakes | 28g | 3g | 3.0x |
| Corn Chex | 31g | 3g | 2.7x |
| Fiber One | 30g | 0g | None |
| Froot Loops | 29g | 12g | 11.6x |
| Frosted Flakes | 30g | 11g | 10.3x |
| Frosted Mini Wheats | 51g | 10g | 5.5x |
| Golden Grahms | 31g | 11g | 9.9x |
| Grape-Nuts | 58g | 4g | 1.9x |
| Honey Bunches of Oats | 30g | 7g | 6.5x |
| Honey Nut Cheerios | 28g | 9g | 9.0x |
| Kix | 30g | 3g | 2.8x |
| Life | 32g | 6g | 5.3x |
| Lucky Charms | 27g | 11g | 11.4x |
| Multigrain Cheerios | 27g | 6g | 6.2x |
| Raisin Bran | 59g | 19g | 9.0x |
| Rice Chex | 27g | 2g | 2.1x |
| Rice Krispies | 33g | 4g | 3.4x |
| Special K | 31g | 4g | 3.6x |
| Total | 30g | 5g | 4.7x |
| Wheaties | 27g | 4g | 4.1x |
Yes, Cheerios has half the sugar of Grape-Nuts. The only cereal I’ve found that beats Cheerios at its own game is Fiber One, which I’ve never actually eaten.
My wife works with the young women in our church and is helping with the New Beginnings program this year. During one of the planning meetings, someone suggested singing a song with custom lyrics to a popular tune. Cheryl is good at that sort of thing and immediately piped up with “There’s No Progress Like Personal Progress.” The others liked the idea and asked her to come up with something.
So she wrote some lyrics.
And sang them.
Then asked me to mix it with the music from the original Broadway show.
And here is the finished version:
There’s no progress like personal progress
To help your testimony grow
Getting your medallion is so thrilling
There is so much more for you in store
If you just keep your feet a-moving
Then you are proving that you are more
Than before
There’s no people like you people
There’s no people I know
Setting goals will help you and you will go far
It doesn’t matter where you are
This is your movie and you’re the star
Let’s get on with our goals
Let’s get on with our goals
They are planning to perform the song for the girls during the program. Should be fun. :)
We’ve places the lyrics into the public domain. Please feel free to use them.
UPDATE: Here is a video of the leaders performing. Cheryl was disappointed she was out of town and couldn’t be there.