1 Week's Worth of Food Around the Planet

quijibo

Subject: 1 Week's Worth of Food Around the Planet

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide
Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07


EDIT - fix broken link: MORE FAMILIES AROUND THE WORLD

lilbangladesh

It must be all that booze that drives the grocery bill to be so high.

quijibo

the German family does chug a stereotypically high amount of beer
and the American family eats pizza pies for dinner

shishkab

q -- your link only goes to the same photo. were there other pics?

sweet tea

here:

http://fixingtheplanet.com/one-weeks-worth-food-around-our-planet

very cool -- reminds me of a photographer who has people all over the world pose with all of their possessions set up outside their house. i'll try to find it.

thoughts:

everybody loves tomatoes! and bananas.

re: america: HELLO, corn subsidies! thanks for the low, low prices! the amount of sweetner represented by all those packaged foods is astounding.

quijibo

the American and Mexican families consume an ungodly amount of Coca-Cola
i guess a higher standard of living means lots and lots of corn syrup


funny how everybody wurvs their bananas

sweet tea

sweet tea wrote:
very cool -- reminds me of a photographer who has people all over the world pose with all of their possessions set up outside their house. i'll try to find it.

turns out it's the same guy!

here's what i was talking about


here's his website: http://www.menzelphoto.com/

re: america: HELLO, corn subsidies! thanks for the low, low prices! the amount of sweetner represented by all those packaged foods is astounding.

i looked at the pictures a little more carefully, and i realized i was ignoring a lot of processed food from the non-american ones -- especially the japanese one. the americans have more, i think -- at least, the family holding the pizzas does -- but most of the shots do have some likely corn syrup products. plenty of coca-cola (though the lucky ducks may still be getting the kind made with sucrose), ketchup, and cereal.

and man, that german family drinks a lot of everything, not just alcohol. check out all the juice! i think they are the family i most want to move in with. maybe the mexicans.

of those living at a high income level, i think i'd least like to move in with the british family.

mayonnaise sandwiches!!???! :shock:

shishkab

wow. :shock:

those photos were intense. it sure puts things in perspective, eh?

lilbangladesh

Several thoughts: Anyone notice that there were almost NO vegetables on the table of the family from North Carolina?

And oh my God, the family from Chad have so little food!

And people in Bhutan pay $5 bucks for all that food! I'm jealous!

Since I don't eat much in processed food, a picture of me and my food would be a bunch of veggies and fruits, a big bottle of water, several packages of whole wheat udon, a couple cans of beans, a bag of kuzu starch, bag of nutra chunks, bottle of juice and sesame oil. Not a lot of food, but even for a single person, it's more than what that whole family in Chad have.

whyfi

I think that these photos are a good counter-point to an article on MSN today - Obesity Is Not Your Fault.

daver

WhyFi wrote: I think that these photos are a good counter-point to an article on MSN today - Obesity Is Not Your Fault.

Good grief. Systemic my ass! It is really simple: 1) Get off your ass. 2) Stop eating crap.

That's it. Not that hard now, is it? They can put all kinds of rules and policies and stuff into effect, and don't get me wrong, I like the banning of transfats and whatnot. But what it really comes down to is that if people stopped eating that crap, then companies would stop making that crap. That is it. They are profit motivated, they aren't trying to shovel crap just in order to shovel crap, they are trying to make money. Stop buying crap, and start buying good stuff, and they will shovel that instead.

MOD

Wow, some of those families looked like they had waay too much food and then poor Chad
I like the banana prevalence. This makes me realize I don't eat enough meat or veggies. I feel so unhealthy now.