Amazing Photos Show What the World Really Eats

[sandyd]

http://naturalsociety.com/amazing-ph...#ixzz1tiSjy4DY

[jane333]

I found a similar website years ago, and it never gets boring. If ever a nation of people needed to see what the rest of the world eats and how they live, it's us. The photos are from a book, Hungry Planet, by Peter Menzel, I believe.

[Oric]

The sudden increase in beer bottles for Germany

[Mousehound]

Hey, let's be fair now. Germany is only in third place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ion_per_capita

[sandyd]

I'd have no beer, maybe one soda bottle (don't buy one every week), one cooked whole chicken, a bag of frozen chicken breasts, maybe a steak, 3-5 bags of frozen veggies: cauliflower, broccli and carrots, 2 bottles of Ranch dressing, 2-3 bags of salad. Oatmeal, coconut milk, half and half, coffee and yogurts. Snacks are microwave popcorn and nuts with no salt. On weeks I aim to juice veggies I get celery, red cabbage, lettuce, carrots, either Kale or Chard (both taste bitter to me) and apples. Juice 'em and drink juice and then try to make myself eat the pulp mixed with no sugar added apple sauce or mix in frozen strawberries for sweetness.

Now...why am I not the picture of health?

[Oric]

kids in the house really change our choices, too much carbohydrates (reason i got sick)

[jane333]

Sandy,

Our weekly food is also pretty different from the U.S. typical family.

I buy lots of fresh fruits and veggies esp. for stir-fry, several jugs of milk, chicken, ham, multigrain bread, plain seltzer and 100% fruit juice, cold cereal and oatmeal. If we eat one whole bag of chips and one whole package of cookies in a week, that's rare. Of course, we do splurge on chocolate and nuts, but they're good for us, right?

We also eat out some, so if we were talking cooking those meals at home it'd be pork for tacos, refried beans and cheese and tortillas, plenty of avocados, cilantro, jalapeno salsa and onions, raw salmon, kelp, and rice for sushi/nigiri, olive oil, salt, sugar, mayo, coffee, gerbil tea.

We're grilling, baking and steaming, trying lowfat, low-temp stovetop cooking methods, and have cut back hamburgers to about twice a month, and pizza to about the same. It's that danged cholesterol report that's at fault! LOL

[sandyd]

Recently I decided if I'm eating out, fast food MUST be a salad, grilled chicken is ok if I want meat on it. AFTER I eat that, I can eat a small burger or cheap taco.
I eat eggs but I don't buy them. Chickens living here provide fresh eggs.
I splurge on cookies at xmas and almost no other time. Chocolate -plain dark a couple times a week max.

I kinda tend to freak out when at a friends and find their kids ONLY eat poptarts for breakfast. Or only some processed quick thing from the store for lunch.
Those can't be good for them every day, right?

[Twoolf]

Unfortunately, my diet sucks. Since my Son took a job over on the East Coast, I don't cook the "balanced" meals I used to, and rely on packaged foods quite a bit. I've seen the (adverse) effects, and need to make some changes. I'm a good cook, and all the kids enjoy comming home to a new creation, but its is just a pain in the ass to make a major meal for just one since the Cat doesn't appreciate my skills. I'm not real big on carbs, its all those tasty fats that get to me.

[jane333]

Sandy,

I grew up on PopTarts and sugary cereal. In fact, I never ate anything good for me, as far as I remember. lol Those were the days.

[Feather]

We very rarely eat out and we don't consume anywhere near what most of those families do. We have a lot of soup and fruit, milk and cereal such as crisp rice and Chex. We have meat maybe twice a week, we drink a lot of water most of the time but lately we've been having a 16.9oz 7-up every day.

[CanadaSue]

The one thing that boggled me was just how MUCH food is represented. I honestly thought - before reading much of anything - that this represented 3-4 weeks worth of food for the families pictured - save for the last family of course. It was puzzling how they could survive on that for a month that made me realize we were looking at a WEEK'S rations.

[Feather]

The amount of food surprised me too Sue. We went through a lot of food when the kids were home but that was two growing teen boys, they were food fueled eating machines. If on the rare occasion we ordered pizza we had to get three family sized and we didn't get a lot of left overs. Now with the two of us there are weeks we don't buy anything but milk and fresh fruit. Mity is cheap to feed, a big bag of cat food is $10 on sale and will feed her for over six months.

[sandyd]

I think it is important to look at the kids. Teens really are eating machines. I even had friends who were females who could eat whole pizzas alone. And even today over 50, are still skinny.

Maybe I should have tried to eat more then?

[Feather]

Originally Posted by sandyd

I think it is important to look at the kids. Teens really are eating machines. I even had friends who were females who could eat whole pizzas alone. And even today over 50, are still skinny.

Maybe I should have tried to eat more then?

Some just don't gain weight. Oldest DS eats as much or more than his younger brother and he is 130lbs while younger brother is 275. I was just happy that when he was playing football he was away at school and they had to feed him.

[Cactus Az]

Have a 14 yr GS in house. that equals 1 gallon of milk everyday. Us 3 adults may get a bit for our cereal, if we`re fast.

Just went and rescued the new jar of Nutella from his room, and spoon.

Pizza shows up once a week or so, but I make it from scratch. And, GS actually prefers it to takeout, and so do his friends.

Meat is elk or sometimes chicken or porkchops.. But,we`re getting low on elk, and I refuse to buy hamburger or beef from the store. I`ll have to hit up SIL`s parents for some elk, they both got one last fall, and don`t like it.

Beans and tortillas show up regularly.

GS just hit 5-10, and 150 lbs. At the rate he is growing, he should hit 6 feet by his 15th birthday.