What The World Eats: Photos
Wow, this is from a book called Hungry Planet my brother just told me about. Please check out the photos, there are 16 and it's quite amazing. Each is a photo of a family with all the food they would eat normally eat in a week and how much it costs.
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html
If you feel like it, share which one you think matches you the most.
Oh, btw, the first photo is the first in the series online, not the one I would choose. I think it would be Bhutan, but I have to look again.
I probably spend like $50-$70 for food in a week, but my daily routine looks a little more like this (below) than what's in the photo:
2pm: An iced dirty Chai tea from Starbucks (light ice), then some sort of fast- or semi-fastfood (typically a Chipotle shredded pork burrito, or a Spicy Italian $5 footlong sub from Subway), or a cheap Asian sitdown meal, orange chicken from the Chinese place, or spicy yellow chicken curry from the Thai place.
8pm: At home, a hot dog, or a yogurt, or a sandwich, or a microwaveable Marie Calender's meal. Maybe a coffee from Starbucks, or from the coffeeshop my roommate works in.
And sprinkled throughout the day, unhealthy snacks of the sugary/doughy variety, and a Caffeine-free Diet Coke, and around midnight I'll brew a pot of some really shitty store-brand coffee.
The chick in the pink sweater in photo 1 is fine as hell. Both of those pizzas in the post below it are also fine as hell. Big ups to the Revis family from North Carolina!!!
Damn, I'm hungry...
Also, why does every member of the family from Ecuador have on a fedora???
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Is that you in the red dress?
Probably this one, for me, only with a little less prepared food.
This is definitely the way I grew up eating:
The family from Chad about broke my heart:
There is hope, but not for us.
The family from Chad about broke my heart:
They're in a refugee camp and in order to show the amount of food that they would eat in a normal week the photographers had to take the food from everyone in the camp to take the photo. They might eat that in a week, but they only get a few days worth of food at a time with no assurance that more is forthcoming.
I ate like this growing up including the lace table clothes and the artfully arranged pears. We didn't eat flowers, but we had to have flowers if someone was in our home!
I hope pica chimes in on this because it boggle my mind. I have questions!
I really have no clue what's most similar to what I eat in a week. Hm. Maybe I'll set up my own foodthing in a jpg. 
I want more than them
That's the difference
That would be wonderful! You should just empty your cupboards and fridge right now and take a photo!
i thought they just ate reindeer meat over there.
Not even close to all I eat, but a tiny selection of what I would eat and drink of in a week:
I want more than them
That's the difference
Is that a carton of pudding?!
There is hope, but not for us.
It's not pudding, but vla! Which is pretty much pudding, just.. more liquid-y. 
I want more than them
That's the difference
Whats the green mash in the center?
It's not pudding, but vla! Which is pretty much pudding, just.. more liquid-y. =)
Do you....drink it?
There is hope, but not for us.
Boerenkool. Typical Dutch food.
Man, I've never seen it like that before, weeeird! =O
I want more than them
That's the difference
It's not pudding, but vla! Which is pretty much pudding, just.. more liquid-y. =)
Do you....drink it?
Nope, you eat it with a spoon. It's not as liquid as.. water or something!
I want more than them
That's the difference
that looks like some kind of mix between marijauna and a sea cucumber.
Boerenkool. Typical Dutch food.
Man, I've never seen it like that before, weeeird! =O
YUM!!
http://www.recipezaar.com/Boerenkool-Stpot-Kale-Hash-33269
I'm not a big fan of it unfortunately. We also eaaaat: Hutspot.
With carrots. *Shiver* Yuck. 
I want more than them
That's the difference
I'd say my family eats like the Ukida family. We have tons of healthy food but lots of junk food too. We adore seafood especially sushi. We got lots of it too when I was briefly dating the stoner sushi chef. Plus, I chow down on seasoned seaweed like if it was a bag of chips. I LOVE that stuff.
The Ukidas are also the only family to leave the TV on during dinner, much like my family.
Good observation.
Min: I also adore seasoned seaweed!
In many places in the world, people eat insects. Let's see that! When I read First They Killed My Father, by Loung Ung, I learned that insects could be delicious. Excerpt:
"Though my stomach is full, I still crave salty snack food. With the money Pa gave me in my front pocket, I approach a food cart selling roasted crickets. There are food carts on every corner, selling everything from ripe mangoes to sugarcane, from Western cakes to French crepes. The street foods are readily available and always cheap. These stands are very popular in Cambodia. It is a common sight in Phnom Penh to see people on side streets sitting in rows on squat stools eating their food. Cambodians eat constantly, and everything is there to be savored if you have money in your pocket, as I do this morning.
Wrapped in green lotus leaf, the brown, glazed crickets smell of smoked wood and honey. They taste like salty burnt nuts."
I ate silkworm larvae in Korea, while I lived there. I just couldn't get into it though! YUCK!
Ideally, I'd eat like the family from Bhutan, but in reality I eat more like the people in California, or the family in UlaanBataar, without all that meat, or maybe even like that Italian family.
Despite being one of the families to spend the least, those Ecuadorans are happy as all get out!
There is a conspicuous absence of vegetables in the American families.
I need to eat more veggies!
I ate crickets in Mexico. They tasted like chili and lime.
I ordered the book, so I'll let you know if there are insects in any of the families diet on a weekly basis.
I like the part where it says the families favorite foods. The Sicilian family includes hot dogs and fish sticks as favorites, but they are nowhere to be seen! I guess they don't get them weekly, just as a special treat.
This is what I eat in a week. Not including coffee and water; which is all I drink.
Oh my, pierogi, stuffed cabbbage, kielbasa! That's what I ate growing up. My family is from the Slovak Republic (formerly half of Czechoslovakia). Where are you from?
We also ate:
Stuff I used tolove to eat as a kid (and still do).
Sopa de fideo
Corn tortilla quesadillas
Tamles!
Poland!
Do you recognize the poppy seed noodles??
My Dad goes to the Polish Catholic Church because it's familiar. After service they provide a lunch for $5. When I visit, I usually meet him for lunch, it's amazing. My Dad speaks Polish.
I never had poppy seed noddles! They look good though. I've been to the Polish Catholic Church too, and it is amazing! Everyone but my brother and I speak Polish. I bet they talk about us Mirka!
But they only have nice things to say, right! Where do you live? I had assumed Poland, but I guess you don't if you don't speak it.
Oh, I'm sorry. I should have said I'm Polish--not Poland...Connecticut.
hahha, I got quite excited thinking you could teach me some Polish expressions.
I look Polish/Eastern European..me in Italy last November. I'm the one in the grey sweater, the one that doesn't look Italian!
Are those perogies on the right bottom there?
Yes, Mister.
I love perogies.
I thought this was you,
Okay, not really. You're 100% Italian? I'm half Sicilian. I'm also 1/8 Polish, 1/8 Hungarian, and 1/4 German.
I thought this was you,
Okay, not really. You're 100% Italian? I'm half Sicilian. I'm also 1/8 Polish, 1/8 Hungarian, and 1/4 German.
Pay attention, Bug!
Me in a green sweater with a 100 % Italian women friend named Nicoletta. I spent last November in Italy and am feeling nostalgic.
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So , the book arrived! What's weird is I ordered three books and this one came first and all by itself.
It's Okay, because it's dense, There's tons of essays and asides besides the family photo. Each family has chapter about their lives with additional photos. I don't know why, but I started with Greenland. That country fascinates me.
They spend 1,928.80 Danish krone/$277.12 US for a weeks worth of food.
They spend about a dollar more on snacks and desserts than they do on meat. Both around $55
The meats they eat are: Musk Ox, Walrus, Polar Bear, 5 little auk, hot dogs, ground beef, sausages and meatballs, ham, dried cod, Breakfast meat (???) and 4 slices of egg! (This is explained. It is egg product that comes in a tube and is called 'long egg"), also capelin (a kind of fish) and bacon. The brand of bacon and hotdogs they buy is called Tulip.
Now their condiments are very interesting! Heinz tomato ketchup, salt, sugar, narwhal oil, HP sauce, marmalade, foodline chocolate cream (?). powdered coffee cream, Perrins worcestershire sauce, mayonnaise, remoulade, dried onions, black pepper. $25.66
Do the put ketchup and HP sauce on their polar bear and walrus? I'll soon find out and let you know!
Fruits and vegetables: canned oranges, fruit cocktail, canned, yellow onions, chili peppered tomato sauce and preserved mushrooms. $8.67
