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Ever wondered how you rank with the rest of the world in the amount of money you spend on food in a week? I got this email and it has some great pictures along with the amount of cash each family spends in feeding themselves for a week all around the world.
Guess how much money refugees from Darfur spend in a week at Briedjing Camp for food?
Scroll down to find out.
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1. Germany - $500 a week for food
2. North Carolina, USA - $341.98 a week for food
3. Japan - $317.25 a week for food
4. Italy - $260 a week for food
5. Great Britain - $253 a week for food - I wonder if the dog on the table is part of the diet?!?
6. Kuwait - $221.45 a week for food
7. Mexico - $189.09 a week for food
8. California, USA - $160 a week for food - Apparently it’s cheaper to eat on the West Coast of the U.S.A than the East Coast. See North Carolina above.
9. Beijing, China - $155.06 a week for food
10. Poland - $151 a week for food
11. Egypt - $68.53 a week for food
12. Mongolia - $40 a week for food
13. Ecuador - $31.55 a week for food
14. Bhutan - $5 a week for food
15. Breidjing Camp - $1.23 a week for food!!! {Sudanese refugees in Chad}
You can also view the photoset here on Flickr.
From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio www.menzelphoto.com.
*Disclaimer: I am not the owner of these photographs, I simply got them in a forwarded email. No names or origin of photos was attached to the email. Peter Menzel has contacted me personally right after I published this post and I have given proper attribution above as requested by him.
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Wait hold on “Peggy” you get $650 a week and food stamps, you go without food. So instead you spend money on an internet connection and look up things about food even though you try not to think about it? People won’t give you sympathy on a comments board about food so don’t try and look for it here.
oh my!… haha, I wish we were fortunate like them, in china!…
awww i think that the poor people in Africa is soo sad to know that and that the fatt other ppl in like north carolina have like soo much foo d and in Germany like what the hell share soo food with other ppl like the ppl in africa send like 1.35 or what ever and the ppl in Gremany spent 500 dollars just on foood WOW that is sadd
I think germany should stop gettin liqured up and buy healthy food
WOW, lots of liquer.
I hope Maria knows its not about her, people are just being mean.
i from morocco i have not a problemes about food because we have three meals in the day we always do a diat for not diseases….
this is from time magazine just fyi
Anyone who eats $500 of food a week is either a pig, throwing half his food away, or lying about the cost, I don’t eat that much a month and I go out to eat at least once a week, and not at Mcdonald’s either! I guess Germans have bigger stomachs than the rest of us, or they don’t know how to shop!
Liquour is not that expensive in Germany but food is… so the 500 dlls doesn’t necessarily mean they eat a lot it just costs a lot more than countries like USA. As you can see a lot of the groceries are cold meat and vegetables which aren’t precisely are big and filling as a hamburger.
I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THERE IS IGNORANT JOURNALIST
YOUR ARTICLE ON WHAT PEOPLE EAT AROUND THE WORLD IS SO
DEGRADING FOR ECUADORIAN PEOPLE, YOU PRESENT ECUADORIAN
AS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INSTEAD OF HAVING EVERYDAY ECUADORIAN
YOU SHOULD HAVE NATIVE AMERICAN OF USA MEXICO BRITAIN
AND EVERYBODY IN THIS ARTICLE. NOT JUST ECUADOR. SHAME ON YOU
SO CALLED JOUNALIST.
man stop being such a whiny bitch about it.
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the poeple that are only paying 1.23 is so bad
Such a fascinating find!
I can’t believe people spend so much…or so little!
I live alone in London, but I spend £10 ($16 American Dollars) a week on all food and cleaning / toiletry products.
Sometimes, if I catch the market late or find good stuff in the reduced sections of the supermarkets, I can spend as little as £4 ($6.40).
That’d mean if there were five of me living together we’d spend on average £50 ($80.03).
I could live off less, quite healthily, but enjoy the luxury of dairy occassionaly, herbal teas and biscuits.
My husband’s family is from Egypt. We have visited there several times and stayed there for several months on the last visit. It is true. This is quite normal of the family size (grandparents, parents, children…and, sometimes the spouse of a child and, their children is becoming more popular because of the high costs of housing, marriage costs, etc.) An American, shopping in an ‘American’-style grocery store can easily spend 100-200 US dollar a week in groceries…junk, pre-prepared foods, namebrands or replicas…but, if you shop at the locals’ shops and ‘cook’ your meals…stay away from ‘American’ namebrands, breakfast cereals, chain restaurants…etc….you can spend even less than $50 a week on groceries for a household this size…by going to the yogurt store for yogurts and milk…grain store for grains…meat guy for fresh cuts and deli meats…dairy guy….and the outdoor veggie markets save a lot of money too…that’s the locals’ way of shopping (going to different shops…not everything in one place)….outside of Cairo…that is….and, the average family is lucky to bring home 800-1300 Egyptian pounds a month (more like the 800, or some even 500!) and then divide that by 5.30 (approx.) and you’ll see what they make in US dollar. Usually, the older ones own their own apartments, but the younger ones are having to pay rent nowadays and some are even financing cars, cell phones, apartments, computers, televisions, furniture…credit is starting to take over there too….I love these photos…big reality check for people…..thank you. You notice that the less money the people spend, and, the more likely they are to be ‘poorer’ by ‘American’ middle class standards…the more happy they look? Look at their big smiles….look at the looks on the faces of the people that spend so much money…obviously, money isn’t everything…
I think that the britsh people are lazzzzzzyyyy andI think that when you compare them with the sudanese refuge camp I feel like I dont feel proud to put Britan with a capital B I thin that he german people have their money on how much they alchol so the diet that i would want to live on is the poland diet.
SSDI is normally around $650/month
not per week. at least in all the people I’ve known or worked with who receive(d) SSDI
hello, friends:
I am peruvian, i was reading this articles, it is increible as many people have not nothing to eat. I am making a project. I need to know: how many people eat sauces in california?
please, I need your answers. This is a project for can export and help to many people encouraging for make more project. see soon. good luck!
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i cant belive this website shows a picture of a part of ecuador that is not so comon i live in ecuador and around 85% of our country does not live in places like that. i also want to say that i think 60% of our country has diferent food to serve or diferent things also i wanted to request this website to change theire picture of ecuador becauseive been almost everywhere in this country and almost everyone has beter homes. i bet it.
Yes I know that Ecuador is a lot more than that, yes we are from Incaic origin but not every people is like that, not all people live in stone homes or whatever that is, people in Ecuador are people that have the same opportunities as other people in other countries. I think they should also show the people that live in the beach for example they eat fish. Thans all thanks
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I am an Ecuadorian, and I think presenting indigenous people from Ecuador shows the real connection between man and mother earth, our ancestors were the Incas mainly(because we “everyday Ecuadorians” come from them and the Spaniards), they were the most respectful for the land and natural resources, and the picture shows that they still are and are a proud example to developed societies. I think that showing a “everyday” Ecuadorian who shops in supermarkets and like processed crappy food, copying the “first-world” families tradition will be denigrating.
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Great images. I wonder if my family wants a pic like these.
This article could greatly improve it’s point if it included the weekly income of the family and/or the minimum wage. Also, the average caloric intake would give some interesting information. Right now it’s a useless (albeit interesting) comparison that doesn’t really give the reader any information.
Sure, for those of us in the US, the Sudanese refugees week of food looks sad (also, how wonderfully racist that idea is and lacking in cultural understanding), we should be looking at what factors contribute to the incomes in these countries and what standard of living they allow for.
The US and Germany are within the top 5 of world GDP, so it makes sense that food would be more expensive and the cost would be higher. Japan is also in the top 5, but it could be that there are more subsidies for necessities like food.
You can’t simply take something like the cost of a week of food from several different countries and compare just that without breaking down the countless contributing factors.
Cool post, thanks
Wow, This is a very good post… I’m from Japan, I can’t imagine have that much food in our refrigerator..