What is eaten...

[r2r]

...in one week.

A friend of mine sent me this yesterday.

Notice to how many fresh greens everybody eats..


Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide
Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd221/rtur/01.jpg

United States: The Revis family of North Carolina
Food expenditure for one week $341.98
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd221/rtur/02.jpg

Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily
Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd221/rtur/03.jpg

Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca
Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd221/rtur/04.jpg

Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna
Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd221/rtur/05.jpg

Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo
Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd221/rtur/06.jpg

Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo
Food expenditure for one week: $31.55
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd221/rtur/07.jpg

Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village
Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd221/rtur/08.jpg

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd221/rtur/09.jpg

[Z3uS]

We've made this calculations here after seeing that and we're about 500 reais or semthing like 270 dollars. We are 5.

[ARMAN]

holy crap Germans are uber eaters :ohmy:

[TT]

Quite sad once you reach the bottom :-(

[silentm]

holy crap Germans are uber eaters :ohmy:
the funny thing is i have absolutely NO idea where all that food goes in that family:ohmy: either they throw a lot of food away or they eat like teh shitz0rs...

i have to ask my mom what our family used to eat at the peak of it's eating performance ;) but DEF not THAT much

~370 euros a week is just pure insanity

[stmoritzer]

"shocking" difference
interesting comparison, thanks

[acmarttin]

Quite sad once you reach the bottom :-(

Yeah it said they were from a camp in Chad, I wouldn't be surprised if they're Darfur refugees.

[pilotvtm]

great images r2r
a painfull comparation betwen cultures..:-(

[nthfinity]

great images r2r
a painfull comparation betwen cultures..:-(

I likes to eat, yeh. :P

Very interesting, but not unexpected. Many of the cultures have similar quantities... but few can eat the non-saturdated fats in a Lays bag like an American :P

[pilotvtm]

I likes to eat, yeh. :P

Very interesting, but not unexpected. Many of the cultures have similar quantities... but few can eat the non-saturdated fats in a Lays bag like an American :P

Your right. To much fat kills you.
That's why i'm skiny!!! lol
Seriously: too much fat destroys your body!!!
Eat more fruits and vegetables or.....eat whith measure all (fruits & meat(love meat :D))

[LEXION]

Your right. To much fat kills you.
That's why i'm skiny!!! lol
Seriously: too much fat destroys your body!!!
Eat more fruits and vegetables or.....eat whith measure all (fruits & meat(love meat :D))

GOOOD Im trying for 5 years to get 10 kilos fatter, and I dont succed NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!! I eat junk food, crappy food, fats, KFC , Mc, pizza and im stil 74 kilos for 6 years now........

Ive tried Naturalitte, Amway, AloeVera....NOTHING works on me, im 1.84 m tall and 74 kg and no matter what I eat, I cant get a bit fatter.....so, I do think its how your sistem reacts to food that is important.....I have a very fast methabolism, that consumes the food in a hour after I eat it, so it ''leaves'' my body very quick :-D

The United States choice looks very good....And Ive noticed this along the years: notice how Mexico has about 20 bottles of Coca Cola and the Germans a lot of natural juice, that is because of the economical advance of the country....it was the same here, in 2000 Romania was the country with the highest Coca Cola Consumption in East Europe, since than, the economy moved verry good, the people brightened and started drinking natural stuff, so natural juice holds 57% of the market in 2007, and I bought only natural juice for the Holidays, no Coke crap :-D

[sameerrao]

^^

Dude, You blessed by the fact you can't put on weight. I was the same from birth till 31 - I could not put on weight no matter what thanks to a high metabolic rate. Now I can add about 2-3 lb (1-1.5kg) of weight if I eat trashy food for a month. Still pretty modest weight gain considering I never exercise.

Just because you are thin doesnt mean you are healthy. You can get a high cholestrol level by pigging out on KFC. So be careful!

Interesting array of food R2R :)

German:
- too much food
- too much red meat

American:
- too much junk/frozen food
- no greens. Though I think this is not typical of all American households
- Too much soda

Italian
+looks very healthy
- Not much variety

Mexican
+ Looks great except for the multipel coke bottles

Poland:
Much healthier than the German :)

Egyptian:
- Very healthy

Equador/Bhutan:
- healthy but doesnt seem adequate enough for family size :-(

chad:
:crying:

[ARMAN]

GOOOD Im trying for 5 years to get 10 kilos fatter, and I dont succed NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!! I eat junk food, crappy food, fats, KFC , Mc, pizza and im stil 74 kilos for 6 years now........
you have very good metabolism but if you will continue to eat junk food the "clock" can bake and then it will go down the hill and will be hard to stop it as it will be hard to change your eating habbits ;-)

[r2r]

Just because you are thin doesnt mean you are healthy. You can get a high cholestrol level by pigging out on KFC.


Wise words!

I used to think few years ago when I was really thin I could eat anything I wanted, until I realized how much harm I was doing to my body.

[ARMAN]

I am gonna eat for xmass myself more than those germans on the pic muhahahaha :devil: :angel:

[Sir_GT]

Hmmm... over here, we spend about $150 per week - there are 6 of us + 1 infant.

I guess that's not so bad in comparison.

[Sir_GT]

EDIT:: Double post.

[sentra_dude]

That German family must be loaded! That's $26,000 a year on food alone, not including eating out at restaurants! Seeing how little food the last few families have is a bit shocking for a sheltered Westerner like me...

[volkoff]

Wow, 375€ per week it is way to much for a family like this one living in Germany. Even considering that meat and some green stuff can be expensive, it is to much. And actually the germans dont eat a lot (the portions are allways small), so this example seems to be wrong, but the message of the whole post is interesting anyway.

[graywolf624]

341 dollars is a bit high too.. 200 seems more like it.

[r2r]

Rather then how much is spent, what is really interesting and important is what is eaten!