What a week of groceries looks like around the world ....

[MindMover]

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The Revis family from the United States spends around $342 per week on groceries for their family of four. A lot of dishes that are typically considered American have actually been developed from other cuisines. For example, hot dogs and hamburgers are both based on traditional German dishes, and pizza is based on the traditional Italian dish!

Americans are widely known to love fast food, and judging by this family's groceries, that is highly evident - We can spot McDonald's, pizza, fried chicken, a hot dog, nachos, and some Burger King among the other food! Some American families like to make breakfast a large meal, often consisting of cereal, eggs, toast, pancakes, coffee, and fruit juice.

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I looked at the size of the family that is being fed by the cost per week ... Mali is feeding 15 people, 8 adults and 7 children with the total cost of the equivalent of $30 dollars per week or $4.28 daily or $.29 per person daily ...

and Japan who has the most expensive food budget is feeding 4 people with the total being $361 per week, or $51.57 daily or $12.89 per person daily ...

[Old Union Guy]

1. Interesting ...

The American one is nothing like what it would be for me.

The Egyptian one is the closest to mine (but not real close).

I'd say America is much too diverse to represented by a single sample, and I speculate the same is true for some of the others.

[Avalux]

2. US and Japan eat the most processed foods.

And the US foods displayed don't represent my eating habits at all. I wonder what the selection criteria was for these photos...well to do? $342 per week for the US family is a lot - over $1200 per week.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. Japanese processed foods are different from US processed foods

First of all, Japanese processed foods usually don't contain preservatives. Secondly, the processed foods in that picture are mainly things like dried fish, dried wakame/nori seaweed, fish flakes, soy sauce, mayonnaise, various types of vegetable and sesame sprinkles for rice, mugi-cha tea bags, gelled konnyaku root. And the table is filled with fresh foods, as is the floor on the left side. There is no soda pop in that picture except for a 1.5 liter bottle of CC Lemon, which is lemon fizz that contains Vitamin C. The only other thing in that picture that could be construed as "junk food" is the bag of potato chips that the girl on the left is holding. There are also 3 cups of instant ramen, and a bag containing 5 packages of regular ramen.

[Rowdyboy]

3. Seen this before but glad to get a chance to look again...its quite instructional

[newfie11]

4. I guess I need to move to Ecuador

My diet is more like theirs. Nothing similar to American, thank God.

[onethatcares]

5. the United States family

should definitely think about cutting back on the hfcs and salt. Jeez, that's diabetes, heart disease and bad teeth on one table.

I also think $342.00 a week is outlandish.