What people around the world are eating:

 

 

 

 

Ayme family from Tingo, Ecuador. Weekly expenses for food: 31,55 Dollar. Favorite food: pea flour stew with potato.

 

 

 

 

Caven family from American Canyon, USA. Weekly expenses for food: 159,18 Dollar. Favorite food: beef stew, berry milk shakes, ice-cream.

 

 

 

 

Revis family from Raleigh, USA. Weekly expenses for food: 341,98 Dollar. Favorite food: spaghetti, potato dishes, sesame chicken.

 

 

 

 

Casales family from Cuernavaca, Mexico. Weekly expenses for food: 1862,78 mex. Pesos (189,09 Dollar). Favorite food: pasta, pizza, chicken, crab meat.

 

 

 

 

Al Haggan family from Kuweit City, Kuweit. Weekly expenses for food: 63,63 Dinar (221,45 Dollar). Favorite food: nan (sesame bread).

 

 

 

 

Manzo family from Palermo, Italy. Weekly expenses for food: 214,36 Euro (260,11 Dollar). Favorite food: pasta, hot dogs, fish sticks.

 

 

 

 

Melander family from Bargteheide, Germany. Weekly expenses for food: 375,39 Euro (500,07 Dollar). Favorite food: fish, potatoes, pasta, pizza, vanilla pudding.

 

 

 

 

Ahmed family from Cairo, Egypt. Weekly expenses for food: 387,85 egypt. Pound (68,53 Dollar). Favorite food: mahshi (stuffed vegetables).

 

 

 

 

Aboubakar family from Darfur Province, Sudan (now Breidjing refugee camp, Chad). Weekly expenses for food: 685 african Francs (1,23 Dollar). Favorite food: d'jimia (soup with fresh lamb).

 

 

 

 

Dong family from Beijing, China. Weekly expenses for food: 1233,76 Yuan (155,06 Dollar). Favorite food: yuxiang rousi (sweet and sour pork chops).

 

 

 

 

Ukita family from Kodaira, Japan. Weekly expenses for food: 37,699 Yen (317,25 Dollar). Favorite food: sashimi (raw fish), fruits, potato chips.

Haha so funny.

 

 

 

The egyptian family looks like the one thats eats the most healthy.

 

 

 

Edit: There's a commercial on the japanese tv :lol:

I found the amount of processed food in both American families absolutely frightening. I had to look long and hard to find a piece of fruit or a vegetable.

...and the Americans have more than 50% of junk food. :notalk:

...and the Americans have more than 50% of junk food. :notalk:

 

 

 

yeah i noticed that. well, at least my family eats healthy :D

Just to throw this out there, produce is quite expensive in the US. To eat healty you have to have a much larger budget. Low fat foods generally cost more than high fat foods so it's cheaper to buy more high fat foods. I go grocery shopping with my mom occasionally just to make her buy more produce/low fat foods and when I go shopping with her we buy less and spend more. You can't just say we all love to ingest as many calories as possible, it's just cheaper to eat that way. At MacDonald's you can get a double cheesburger for $0.99. Try to make one from store bought meat, buns, cheese + whatever else you want on it for that price. It would be healthier to make it yourself but also more expensive.

Well that almost makes me feel bad to be an American. :-w

 

 

 

 

 

The Germans are so well organized, and ...wow. How do you feed a family 6 off less than 3 dollars a week? :uhh:

Just to throw this out there, produce is quite expensive in the US. To eat healty you have to have a much larger budget. Low fat foods generally cost more than high fat foods so it's cheaper to buy more high fat foods. I go grocery shopping with my mom occasionally just to make her buy more produce/low fat foods and when I go shopping with her we buy less and spend more. You can't just say we all love to ingest as many calories as possible, it's just cheaper to eat that way. At MacDonald's you can get a double cheesburger for $0.99. Try to make one from store bought meat, buns, cheese + whatever else you want on it for that price. It would be healthier to make it yourself but also more expensive.

 

 

 

Good point.

 

 

 

The amount spent at Fast Food restaraunts in the U.S. is insane though. My family hardly ever eats at a McDonalds (maybe twice a month if that), but we order out Pizza probably twice a week (not because that's what we want, we are just restricted by our schedules).

Low fat foods generally cost more than high fat foods so it's cheaper to buy more high fat foods.

 

That's why most people who eat perfectly healthy cook instead. The "low fat" processed products are 90% of the time not healthy for you because they add sugar, salt, or something else to make up for the low fat. Tbh, most low fat products are another catch for the uninformed customers to fall into.

Lol, those guys DO have a lot of food, lol.

I like the German one the best =]

 

 

 

Kuweit one looks nice to mmmmmm pita bread.

There was a whole article in TIME magazine with those pictures. It was an interesting read. My family eats like the Revis family - we just have a lot less than that because we eat out for most meals.

Just want everyone to see again:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A picture says a thousand words, don't it?

Me and my family spend around 50 dollars weekly on food.

What DeloriaGod said was a good point, healthy food costs more. One Subway sub costs as much as a meal for 2 at McDonalds. And even at the store, whole grain bread, what I buy, costs more than the regular stuff.

bubsa, yea i was looking at that. and i know Americans are pigs but thats ridiculous.....and look how much booze the Germans had lmao!

Well that's pretty interesting. My family is like the Revi's family. Although there are fat foods, I'm pretty skinn/muscular. I work out - exercise. I'd actually like to eat more like the Manzo family.

Yeah, lets blatantly pass over how much alcohol the Germans have, only to talk about how much of the junk food Americans have. Hah! You all are so predictable.

Just to throw this out there, produce is quite expensive in the US. To eat healty you have to have a much larger budget. Low fat foods generally cost more than high fat foods so it's cheaper to buy more high fat foods. I go grocery shopping with my mom occasionally just to make her buy more produce/low fat foods and when I go shopping with her we buy less and spend more. You can't just say we all love to ingest as many calories as possible, it's just cheaper to eat that way. At MacDonald's you can get a double cheesburger for $0.99. Try to make one from store bought meat, buns, cheese + whatever else you want on it for that price. It would be healthier to make it yourself but also more expensive.

 

 

 

Ahh that makes me feel so sorry for that 400 pound woman I saw waddling down the street, she is so fat and its obviously to do with the fact she is oh so poor! If people weren't so lazy it is pretty easy to find cheap ingredients, for example not all food is simply sold at a supermarket. Meaning I personally find it pretty hard to feel sympathy for the American families there.

 

 

 

EDIT: Germans have a alot of meat there =P~

Our family spends around 500ÃÆââââ¬Ã¡Ãâì a week on food

 

 

 

[not fat or any BS like that ]

Yeah, lets blatantly pass over how much alcohol the Germans have

 

 

 

Yay, a good reason to be proud to be German. :D

 

 

 

BTW that's a lot of work on Time's behalf to set that all up. :shock:

 

 

 

My families like the Caven family.

The biggest difference I saw wasn't how healthy the food was, but the number of brand-name products the American families had. Everything they had in their pantry had a package and some product label on it, whereas the families from the other counties had a lot of produce and whatnot that looks like they may have farmed it themselves.

Italy has like the healthiest out of the other ones

Italy has like the healthiest out of the other ones

 

 

 

Which is so ironic when you read this, "Favorite food: pasta, hot dogs, fish sticks".

wow we did something just like this in school a while back