"The People and Their Food Consumed in a Week"

This photo series by Joao Batista appears to be making the rounds on Facebook, but you can also see the whole thing here. Fascinating visual comparison of food expenditures from Germany and the U.S. to Chad and Bhutan (and six others).

book is amzing

holy shit @ the amount of Coke the Mexican family gets thru in 7 days

Need more vegetables, USA

we got pizza thx

so did the US family bring the Burger King home? it would be hard to show food you've eaten at restaurants

Ok, I've just made a quick estimation and I spend on food/drinks (not counting restaurants/big nights out) weekly the equivalent of 4.25 years of what the 6 members family spends in Tchad. alone ! (and I don't even eat much)
of course, you always know there's this kind of amazingly disturbing fact going on. still, it's mindblowing...

holy shit @ the amount of Coke the Mexican family gets thru in 7 days

― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:43 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I was surprised when I learned that Mexico consumes the most coca-cola per capita in the world.

to be fair they also seem to have more fruit in their pile than anyone else

they also elected a former coke executive president.

but yeah, fruit is everywhere in mexico.

thanks for posting this. saw it awhile ago and was amazed at the american family and their lack of veggies/fruit. wtf.

the local food co-op had big posters of all these around the store for a while, I was blown away by the gallons of Mexican coke and the total pre-packagedness of all the American stuff.

is there only one family per country in the book?

You haven't had a visit from him yet? He's actually photographing EVERY SINGLE family in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD.

the local food co-op had big posters of all these around the store for a while, I was blown away by the gallons of Mexican coke and the total pre-packagedness of all the American stuff.

― Easter Time / Chocolate Time (joygoat), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:01 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

where can i get a poster of these

here's another one from the usa
http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/hungry_planet/11.jpg

lol 80s

Daughter's in The White Stripes now

Dad is Michael Medved.

On the other hand, those American pizzas look delicious!

lol @ neatly organised german cartons

Ah, I didn't realize this was a book! Here are more photos:
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1645016,00.html

Eek, Mongolian diet is definitely not for me.

Italian bread mountain rivals ours at home.

britishes with chocolate, crisps and cat food. sounds about right.

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/hungry_planet/13.jpg

not much booze in most of these, except the germans.

Great Britain: The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis

Food expenditure for one week: 155.54 British Pounds or $253.15
Favorite foods: avocado, mayonnaise sandwich, prawn cocktail, chocolate fudge cake with cream

is this common in GB?

Salad cream sandwiches maybe. I think they're frenchies in disguise.

is that a penguin on the table?
http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/hungry_planet/second_ed/hungry_planet_09.jpg

ahah, it does look like one ! actually, 2 (one in the middle, one on the right).

They look like auks to me.

Yummy Mexican and Chinese diets!! Our household most closely resembles the German one, not the American.

they rejected my photograph

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3096/2628536455_2f472b385c.jpg

ah, yeah, mine would be closer to that. with much more beer !

where can i get a poster of these

I have no idea where they came from, the were only up for a couple of weeks late last year. It looked like some hippie food co-op promo type thing though.

God damn it Brits and African Americans, you're killing yourselves!

And two separate families (Northern Canada and Greenland) listed POLAR BEAR as one of their favorite foods!

LOL at the Aus one being all bacon, eggs, mince, more mince. They picked a remote outback family tho so things like the vats of water are not something city people in Aus would buy at all. There'd be as much meat. But more booze.

the aussie one is pretty close to what i eat (albeit with no fish fingers and grainy bread), though obviously a lot less than presented there

Corn Flakes, Sultana Bran, Weet-bix... Winnie blues and Longbeaches, and some Tarax soft drink. Doesn't get much more Aussie, eh?

Refuse to believe that's a real Sicilian family as there appears to be no Nutella on the table.

British one looks about right, except for full fat milk - the only person I know who buys that is my mother for her cat - and that's about 500ml a week.

German's ftw.

Except there's no fish in the German photo? Got to have some fish.

sultana bran wtf? the middle eastern ones look best overall (turkey, egypt, and kuwait were there i think)

sultana bran is well tasty

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/hungry_planet/second_ed/hungry_planet_08.jpg

omg ws

(those walnuts)

she's gonna eat that cat

the one in black is hot (not the old man)

these are great photos

italian mom is hot too

tempted to photograph a 'display' of our next grocery shopping haul, just to see what it looks like all laid out.

My mom photographs all the food she bought when she got a wicked good deal on it. "I spent $37 on this table full of food!" She lives for grocery deals.