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    What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World

    Posts: 1,489 Member
    edited January 28 in Food and Nutrition
    This is exactly why we, the USA have an obese/overweight epidemic.

    http://fstoppers.com/what-a-week-of-groceries-looks-like-around-the-world

    USA
    USA.jpg

    Japan
    Japan.jpg

    Mongolia
    Mongolia.jpg

    Mexico
    Mexico.jpg

    Mali
    Mali.jpg

    Poland
    Poland.jpg

    India
    India.jpg

    Kuwait
    Kuwait.jpg

    Italy
    Italy.jpg

    Great Britain
    GreatBritian.jpg

    Germany
    Germany.jpg

    Guatemala
    Guatemala.jpg

    France
    France.jpg

    Ecuador
    Ecuador.jpg

    Australia
    Australia.jpg

    Chad
    Chad.jpg

    Canada
    Cananda.jpg

    Bhutan
    Bhutan.jpg

    China
    China.jpg

    Turkey
    Turkey.jpg

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    • Posts: 394 Member
      great thread!
    • Posts: 15,267 Member
      wish I could see the pics
    • Posts: 372 Member
      Huge differences! OP, might be wise to post a link to where you got the pics
    • Posts: 3,128 Member
      Nothing like generalizing.

      I mean sure, that's a weeks worth for some families. But not all. I don't think my family ever had that much for a full week, and I still got fat. Add in lots of beer.
    • Posts: 31 Member
      Yeah..this is stereotypical..:\
    • Posts: 80 Member
      I could live in India and Italy. As much as I love France...well...I see I'd surely lose weight living there LOL! This was really interesting!
    • Posts: 280 Member
      WOW. Just looking at what each person has and the amounts they have is really eye opening.
    • Posts: 1,293 Member
      Funny how only the Germans own up to drinking alcohol. I would expect some wine in an Italian household, and more than one bottle in the French one...

      Great thread btw :-)
    • Posts: 109
      Cool pictures.Where are they from?
      I hope Canada washed the table after putting a fresh fish on it, hahah.

      I think the obesity epidemic isn't just a product of what we eat. But the fact that so many people eat like the USA picture (and other countries pictures too) shows and doesn't move.
    • Posts: 3,038 Member
      Go Canada! Milk bags FTW!
    • Posts: 1,489 Member
      Oh sorry, your right. Here is the link. Thanks :)

      http://fstoppers.com/what-a-week-of-groceries-looks-like-around-the-world
    • Posts: 270 Member
      WOW...very interesting !!
    • Posts: 982 Member
      Notice the USA has a lot of prepared food items, the other ones have more fruit & veg. How can that one family exist on so little food in that one pic???? but the family is very thin - the ones that have hardly anything.
    • Posts: 152
      bumps for later :)
    • Posts: 838 Member
      Lovely post. I thought the Great Britain weekly shop would match that of the USA's average family. It's quite surprising how different they both are.
    • Posts: 97 Member
      That is really cool. I also noticed that Mexico has a lot more pop than I expected. Maybe part of the reason obese rate is about the same as ours. Tons of fast food in the USA scary to think that, but we are a country of convenience.
    • Posts: 13,247 Member
      They eat cats in France?! :noway:
    • Posts: 3
      This seems like a ton of food for a week (not counting Chad, of course) . Do most families really eat a whole sack of grains every week? That's nutty. I didn't realize how healthy I'd been eating until looking at these. Go, me!
    • Posts: 964 Member
      Like the way the Britsh include their pets food, lol. Have to say only the apples and eggs of the things in their average weekly shop ever appear on my shopping list though. Even my animals eat better than theirs...

      But a thought provoking and entertaining post, thank you.
    • Posts: 1,225 Member
      Funny how only the Germans own up to drinking alcohol. I would expect some wine in an Italian household, and more than one bottle in the French one...

      Great thread btw :-)

      I noticed that - and the British family only have one bottle of wine sneakily lurking on the matlepiece.....yeah, right! Are trips to the pub not included?
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      That seems like a lot of food for a week.
    • Posts: 1,329 Member
      i love the Italians way of eating :)
    • Posts: 334
      That's fantastic! I just read on another website: ExRx.net (lots of great info) that the average American diet is the equivalent of 2/3 cup sugar, 1/2 cup shortening, 1.5 cup white flour, and 1.5 cups cottage cheese. I'm assuming that's daily, and I assume it means North America. Frightening.
    • Posts: 69
      Well, glad our wonderful community of people on MFP knows better or is at least attempting to make better choices! :)
      This is why we rock.
    • Posts: 3,942 Member
      I take offence to it being implied that us Brits eat dog but it's probably true that the French eat cats.

      PS WTF is that huge stuffed toy elephant doing in that Polish living room???
    • Posts: 3,038 Member
      Notice the USA has a lot of prepared food items, the other ones have more fruit & veg. How can that one family exist on so little food in that one pic???? but the family is very thin - the ones that have hardly anything.

      It's called living in a poor region of Africa :(
    • Posts: 2,245 Member
      The Chad one is pretty heartbreaking.
    • Posts: 228 Member
      Wow..
      I know my family of 5 (2 adults 3 kids) don't even come close to the US photo.

      Wonder how much of it goes to waste?
    • Posts: 3,271 Member
      In the France example...is the Cat part of the weeks groceries?
    • Posts: 1,562 Member
      Depending on the week or day, my groceries look like any one of them. I live in a Filipino/Chinese/Italian/Irish household, where food is #1 priority. When my brother comes to visit, my groceries end up looking like all of them at once (he's a chef and his wife studied sushi making).
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