Fascinating quick look at what we eat around the globe:

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Notice how the amount of food gets smaller (along with $$), and the food is less 'processed', and the families are larger, as you go down the list. Very interesting.

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Wow, amazing and a bit sad. Look at the abundance of food (and junk food) in the Western nations vs. Chad!

This has totally blown my mind.

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The American family is the one with the most number of processed foods, in fact, I can barely discern any fresh fruits or veggies.

Germans have the most beer...
Italians the most bread...

(and I refuse to be manipulated into feeling bad for the family in Chad...).

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I'd love to have a meal with all of these families. Good eats and interesting stories I'm sure.

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Credit: From the book, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel

<I'd love to have a meal with all of these families. Good eats and interesting stories I'm sure.

That's for sure!

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Re: The German family.
That's quite a bit of beer and wine for a family of four with two adults to drink in a week.
20 bottles of beer and 4 bottles of wine. PLUS 6 cartons of what looks like juice. And 12 cartons of something in the back row (milk?).

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The American family is the one with the most number of processed foods, in fact, I can barely discern any fresh fruits or veggies.

That was my thought too. The american one looks the worst of all...those people hava an absolutely awful diet if that is really what they eat. Every other picture looks like the basis for a relatively healthy diet. I'm wondering if they sought out the american family with the most unhealthy diet they could find for that photo. If not, then no wonder obesity and diabetes are rampant in the US.

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Notice how the amount of food gets smaller (along with $$), and the food is less 'processed', and the families are larger, as you go down the list. Very interesting.

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Actually I was impressed with the volume of food that $68 bought in Egypt

and I thought that much food in japan was much more expensive...

I would like to see a USA version - rural alabama, midtown manhattan etc...

VERY interesting bit of photo journalism - where'd you find it?

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The American family is the one with the most number of processed foods, in fact, I can barely discern any fresh fruits or veggies.

That was my thought too. The american one looks the worst of all...those people hava an absolutely awful diet if that is really what they eat. Every other picture looks like the basis for a relatively healthy diet. I'm wondering if they sought out the american family with the most unhealthy diet they could find for that photo. If not, then no wonder obesity and diabetes are rampant in the US.

The Japanese family diet to me looks the worst. Look at the way the daughter is lovingly cradling that bag of chips in her lap. MSG withdrawal.

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Credit: From the book, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel

Thanks for that, 3d. I'd looked around for the source; it came to me in an email.

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The American family is the one with the most number of processed foods, in fact, I can barely discern any fresh fruits or veggies.

It would be interesting to know just how typical those families and their spread of foods are. The kind of stuff spread out representing the family from the U. S. doesn't look close to what would have been found in my house. Even allowing for inflation, I know I never spent that much to feed two adults and two teenage boys, either.

Makes me wonder how I get my family of three by on $70 a week (averaged over a year) for groceries. We eat primarily at home (I bet we spend less than $20 a month eating out).

Guess it's all the Coke, chips, frozen dinners, prepackaged meals and stuff I don't buy.

I also would like to have a dinner with each of these families.

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Makes me wonder how I get my family of three by on $70 a week (averaged over a year) for groceries. We eat primarily at home (I bet we spend less than $20 a month eating out).

Guess it's all the Coke, chips, frozen dinners, prepackaged meals and stuff I don't buy.

$70 on groceries to feed a family of three for a week? That's 10bucks a day.
Are you counting breakfast, lunch and dinner?!

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Credit: From the book, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel

Thanks for that, 3d. I'd looked around for the source; it came to me in an email.

No prob. I'm in publishing. I recognized it immediately. It won a James Beard award in 2006 for best cookbook. Which is kinda wierd because this really isn't a cookbook. It's a great coffee table book. Very nice quality printing.

Hats appear to be popular in Ecuador.

The Polish or Egypt diplay might be closest to the contents of my fridge, without the soda and candy bars. No spicy sausage.
Guilty of chicken pot pies in the freezer in the Winter.
Or Dinty Moore stew in a can (Winter). Quick home late no time to cook better than nothing meal.

Very cool.

Thanks for posting this.

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Thanks for posting this. I've been thinking a lot about what I eat lately, and it's interesting to see (graphically, even) the foodstuffs of others. Makes me want to lay out all my week's ingredients on the floor, too. Just because.

re the American family- I'd bet that mass of pre-made and pre-packaged over-sugared and salted goods is Awful close to the national average menu. (not mine!)

re the Japanese family- 3d, their diet is probably pretty healthy. Lots of fish, rice and soy product, little fats. I'd guess the reason for so few fresh fruits and vegs is the sky-high cost for them there. A good portion of their greens would be dried sources in many of those pkgs, they're mostly not junk food.

re the Germans- Wow, those guys can sure pack it away!



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the family from mexico looked the heaviest...

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Is that a Bela Lugosi imitation selling something on the Japanese family's TV?

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Is that a Bela Lugosi imitation selling something on the Japanese family's TV?

He's selling ant killer. Thus the scary face.

Biggest smiles in the place they eat the most bananas, obviously. kj.

That was really interesting! Thanks for sharing. I'm appalled if that's the average American family weeks worth of groceries.

The family from Equador seem to be very happy!

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Hey, that Ahmed baby is NOT going hungry

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United States: The Interior family of Intoxication, Virginia
"Food" expenditure for the week: $186.33

Weren't you actually thinking this: ($2.75/day):

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Weren't you actually thinking this: ($2.75/day):

Oh yeah!

Now that I take a closer look at those pics, the Mexican family is drinking a hell of a lot of Coke. They are quite pudgy, too, despite the abundance of veggies

I'm just glad that Coke isn't in every photo.

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and I refuse to be manipulated into feeling bad for the family in Chad.

Where's the manipulation?

You are the only one to bring up "feeling bad".

Interesting how the farther down the industrialized ladder you go, the more the calories have to count.