Tuesday, November 27, 2007

My Mother in Law sent me this as an email and I thought it was so interesting. Especially with the pictures. We spend about $120.00 a week on groceries and I was surprised to see where that number fits in- right between Poland and Egypt. It is from the blog What People Eat Around the World

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


6. Kuwait - $221.45 a week for food

7. Mexico - $189.09 a week for food

8. California, USA - $160 a week for food
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}

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

don't you love how all the countries have loads of fresh produce...then you get to Cali and there's a million boxes...hm.

Makes me want to go to Italy and eat in their house for the week.

Very Cool! Thanks for sharing--Lisa

Laura said...

I know, Mexico and Italy looked the best to me too. One of these days I should take a photo of all the food we buy at the store. That might be kinda fun. :)