What the world eats in a week Options

[Inferia]

I saw this photo essay on Time, and thought it was pretty interesting comparing what the world eats in a week. It was fairly obvious that Americans and Europeans eat the most processed foods and the least amount of fruits and vegetables.
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My personal diet probably resemble the Melander family of Bargteheide (in smaller quantities of course), of mostly vegetables, grains/pasta, and meats.

[Hartmann]

Interesting.

I would say I am a cross between the Manzos (pasta and meat), Casales (lots of veggies), and the Melanders (meat). I do not drink a lot of soda and actually eat a ton of fresh foods.

The Chinese family (Dongs) has a lot of processed food as well.

[Inferia]

Yeah, I was surprised at the lack of vegetable on the table, I was expecting more. At least my family there ate a lot more veggie than what they had on the table.

[schwab]

not really any of those, but im trying to eat healthier right now

anyways as of now all my diet consists of is salad, fruit, cereal and chicken, with occational other foods (such as corn soup last night)

[Testm0nkey]

elementary schools kids in china are being forced to take dance class because they are overweight

interesting tidbit for the day

[Spectatrix]

My diet consists of lots of fruits veggies, a smidgen of meat, and very little processed stuff.

[impala454]

frickin A some of those people spend a lot of money on food. that black american family was at $350/week!?!? and that other european family was at like $500/week? damn...

[Inferia]

I think it depends on where you live... Food is expensive at some places, and it also depends on the quality of food too... I spend roughly ~$150-200/month on food.

[James]

Breakfast gets toast and oatmeal and raisins (these are totally necessary as plain oatmeal is fucking NASTY!)

Lunch gets fruit and salad with either chicken and pb sandwich or spaghetti and meat sauce.

Dinner gets fruit and nuts, preferrably almonds. They taste the best, but whatever is available for the season.

Once a week, I go eat my American Chinese food, General Tso's Chicken with steamed rice and a side of hot and sour soup. MMmmmmm.

Weekly expenditure ~$35, depends on which fruits I get.

Holy shit it's cheap to eat in Bhutan! They have 13 people being fed on $5 a week??

[Hartmann]

James, do you eat organic or just run of the mill stuff at the store?

I have been trying to eat organic but it's expensive. There is a Whole Foods nearby and they have a good selection, but again, it's expensive.

[Mommy]

yeah, thats why I dont eat organic...too expensive. I cant afford to spend that much on fruit

[Inferia]

Whole foods is really over priced. If I want to buy organic, I just go to the regular local grocery store here, I'm not sure if you have Kroger in Texas. Anyway, I never paid that much attention to organic food, but one guy I dated bought more or less every thing organic, and he spends around $70-90/week on food

[James]

Stuff at the store is more than adequate. I still eat my meats and junk, so I'm not pure hippie or whatever.

Regular grocery store sells whole wheat bread which is actually tastier than I remember it being when I tried it a long time ago, those big tubs of non-instant oatmeal from Quaker (I just boil water, pour it into the bowl with the oatmeal and raisins, let set for 5 mins, then microwave for 1 min), fruit and salad from the produce section, cook the chicken myself in extra virgin olive oil with a lemon pepper seasoning (mmmm), and nuts are nuts.

Spaghetti's eh. I'm not making my own damn sauce and I'm definitely not giving up the spaghetti. It's too good 93/7 beef for the meat. Blah blah blah.

Yeah, who needs an organic store for all that food. Doesn't seem that expensive to me, either, in neither time nor money. Bananas are fucking cheap right now. Watermelons will be soon. Apples and oranges are always cheap. Raisins aren't that bad and last a good long while, so you can buy larger quantities to save.

[impala454]

I think it depends on where you live...

true for sure, but still, that one american family is spending $1400 a month on food... that just sounds insane. I suppose they must eat out a lot. They did have a couple of delivery pizzas in their hands.

we have krogers down here and they seem a little expensive over wal mart. we'll alternate between them depending on which store has what we're looking for. although it PISSES me OFF that I cannot find my damn drinks down here. in Lubbock I would get Slice One Grape and/or Strawberry. Or the Diet Rite White Grape (these three are all splenda, and are friggin awesome if you can find em). I cannot find those anywhere in Houston. I've been to HEB, Krogers, Walmart, Randalls, some store that used to be a Gerlands, they are nowhere to be found. Guess my last try is Whole Foods.

edit: and nevermind... apparently whole foods definitely won't have em
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splenda#Use_in_branded_products

The world's largest retailer of natural and organic foods (Whole Foods Market), made an official policy of not carrying products containing sucralose in any of its outlets.

[cupcake]

average day...

1 or 2 chorizo breakfast burritos
2 chicken breasts with teriyaki, fresh veggies, and steamed rice (only truly healthy meal)
dinner consisting of a salad, a meat, and some kind of starch (sometimes healthy, usually kinda crappy and fatty)

beverages consumed daily:
~easily over a gallon of water per day (don't drink sodas)
~7 light beers or a bottle of cab sav (I know I have issues kthx)
~1/4 gallon 2% milk

mr. healthy right here!