A Week of Groceries In Different Countries [Pictures]

[trumad]

Pretty awesome

People of every society have their own distinct lifestyles and eating habits. Its a well known facts that people from western world consume 2 to 3 times more food per capita than people from eastern countries. This can be attributed to different cultures, income levels and difference in prosperity of the countries. Peter Menzel came up with an amazing idea of capturing a week of groceries in different countries all over the world. He travelled around the globe and observed people’s one week grocery. Here is the collection of his work below. Enjoy the gallery and leave your comments in the comment section!

http://creativediyideas.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-week-of-groceries-in-different.html

[Arkansas Granny]

1. That is really interesting.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

2. Cool stuff.

Looks like they eat lots of platanos (tostones to you'se) in Ecuador.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Fascinating.

Everyone should see this.

[Triana]

4. Sad how little some get by on (Chad for instance)

and how few fruits and veggies are in some pictures - particularly the US - dominated by sodas, chips and pizza and pre-packaged "food".

[exboyfil]

7. If it comes in a box it probably isn't

very good. Same for a can except for some staples like tomato sauce/paste. I pretty much stay on the outside of the grocery aisles (fruits/veges and meat). Since I discovered mock rice w/broccoli and a good way to make zucchini noodles I have eating far fewer grains as well (the arsenic/brown rice thing has concerned me). The nice thing about mock rice is it has 1/3 the calories and is competitive in price with boxed Uncle Ben Instant Brown Rice (which I used to live on). Steamer rice is still cheaper but more of a hassle when you don't have time.

[PETRUS]

5. Neat. I liked his (Menzel's) 1994 book, Material World. nt

[whttevrr]

6. OMG! Mali and Chad...

I have no words...

[Amonester]

8. And we haven't seen one from Haiti or...

from Under A Bridge in Amur'ka

[toby jo]

9. Wow - eye opener there. Mali & Chad just getting by.

A few of the countries are so rich in veggies, great stuff.

The Germans I think may kill you if you don't like their food.

[oldironside]

10. Looking at the UK and the US...

... it's difficult to see any real food there.

Good to see the Germans have their priorities right: Bier!

[REP]

11. Besides the obvious, those are beautiful photos

The most salient things - the lack of food in some of the most abundantly piled photos; the small piles in others - have been noted by others. The photographs have an Arbus-like feel to them and very well done.

[taught_me_patience]

12. Complete and total lack of vegetables in the USA diet is disturbing. n/t

[NJCher]

15. plus everything's in a package!

Americans eat, in the words of Michael Moss of the NY Times, "Fat, Sugar, and Salt." Yes, if you read labels, that is what you will see on those packages.

Just yesterday I was randomly looking at the salt content of packaged foods and it was no surprise to see it at 32%. Some were 46%.

What a messed up food system the U.S. has, just like it's health care system. And needless to say, because the food system is messed up, the demands on the health care system are greater than what they would need to be.

As taught_me_patience says, the lack of vegetables. That says it all.

See this:

http://michaelmossbooks.com/books/salt-sugar-fat/

[AtheistCrusader]

13. Look at the size of those Australian eggs...

holy cow

[PowerToThePeople]

14. It seems like a lot of food.

But, the family size of these is bigger than at my house.