[dbruning]

I had this sent to me by a friend, kind of puts things into perspective how differently people live.

Makes me grateful.


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Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily
Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11


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


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United States: The Revis family of North Carolina
Food expenditure for one week $341.98


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Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca
Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09


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Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna
Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27


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Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo
Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53


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Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo
Food expenditure for one week: $31.55


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Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village
Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03


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Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23

[Alcassin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')oland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna
Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27

[Angry_Chimp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dbruning', 'I') had this sent to me by a friend, kind of puts things into perspective how differently people live.

Makes me grateful.

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23

[dbruning]

I shouldn't have grinned at that...but I did heheh

[SolarDave]

I try to stick to $45/week. It fits in two shopping bags (all the Sparrow will hold). So: $180/month. Jes l'il ol' me.

[Opies]

Note the big smiles on every single member of the Ecuadorian family that consumes 31$ of food...

[Troyboy1208]

That American Family eats almost no fresh fruits or veggies. Amazing.

[RedStateGreen]

That might be a good exercise, calculating what your household eats in a week, to see how many weeks your preparations are really good for.

[deeciduous]

Chad #1

If you feed the Chadd family that american diet they would die.

[mekrob]

There is already a thread about this. Someone find it.

This is actually a book. I work at a bookstore and we have it. I need to flip through it. I'd buy it, but it's like $50, which, by the way, is about half of what I spend in a week. I really need to cut back. I've already cut meat almost entirely out of my budget, but I'm spending more on fruits (they cost so much).

[dbruning]

Woops, sorry if I missed that other thread, mods please feel free to merge this into that thread.

[WisJim]

I think that the book is "Hungry PLanet", one of the authors is Menzel. Another good book is "Material World", same author, I think. "Material World" is about the possessions that people have in different countries and cultures.

In looking at our budget records for last year, I see that we spent about $91 a week for groceries and garden and orchard expenses, in other words for total food budget. That is for a household of 3 or more adults, depending on how many sons or other folks may be visiting, and including lots of potlucks and get-togethers for pizza, etc., after an afternoon of some other activity with neighbors and friends. So I would say that it is more like we are feeding 4 people with $91 a week. Looks like about $1000 less in 2007 than in 2006, too. So I guess we are getting better at food production.

[mekrob]

Thread Merge! A few different pictures, not much different.

[pup55]

Note the 20L of coke behind the Mexico family, also the 14L of sugary drink of some type with the Italians. Even Egypt: 3 big bottles.

The Germans appear to be slugging down a lot of beer, which is correct.

Frequent visits to the fast food place by the US family.