What the world eats- what country is your house like?

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What the world eats

I would like to think we eat like Italy or Mexico, in reality tis more like USA or UK

I'm Spanish, so I guess Mexico with far less coke than is shown on that picture!

Closest to Italy.

Is anyone else shocked by the disparity between Mail/Chad and the majority of the rest?

Yes, it is quite shocking.

You can see quite clearly that the volume of food for the countries with obesity problems is very big as well.

Italy or Turkey but without the meat and possibly even more bread

We're in France so we eat like the French - more fruit and veggies though.

I'm at the amount of chocolate the British family eats. In a week. Is that really normal?

Very interesting!

The poor arteries of the Australians shown!

I think we are closest to France but with a lot more vegetables.

Add some coffee, milk, sugar, marge, and cheese, and make the sack smalller but allow it to be split into a variety of grains, pulses, and pasta, and more importantly only a third of the number of people for the amount, and we are Bhutan.

I just showed oldest who agreed, but was really shocked that a bit less than what we have must go round twelve. Food for thought.

That's such a brilliant set of pictures, I would love to have them in my class. I think, once I get on a computer, I'll have a bit of a search and see what else I can find out about the pictures.

So, in essence, I'm just posting so I don't lose the link...

The Brits seem to be eating cat and dog food too, unlike all othe countries. And remarkably little meat, compared to the average, so it does appear to be not calculated from the average.

Canada, which surprises me.

But I'm generally amazed by the sheer quantity of bread, fizzy pop and booze in most pictures. Even allowing for countries where you can't/don't drink tap water, good heavens.

thanks lucky stars yet again that I live in a country where clean water is cheap and on tap

Fred there is a dog in the british pic

KentuckyFrriedChicken THEY EAT THE DOG?

Being ill in bed with nothing better to do I've just tried to work out what our family table would look like.

I think it would be about 1/4 meat, dairy + eggs, 1/3 fruit and veg, 1/4 bread/pasta/rice, 1/12 unhealthy snacks, 1/24 healthy snacks and 1/24 sauces, spices etc.

We are British/NZ.

Mostly Canada but for meat quantity Australia (I'm South African)

We are like a cross between Canada and Turkey I think

The british table is completely foul

Actually we are a cross between Canada & Australia in our house

Not so much a country, more an 'age' as in prehistoric!
I have to serve meat at every meal to my cavemen, different styles and sides but always meat.

I live in Britain. My friends are very eclectic. I don't know anyone those eating habits are represented by the Britain photo

We're like France but a little bit of Canada thrown in for good measure!

fred

Fred pretty sure the dog is the one who eats the dog food, but you never know...

I think we're most like France but without the mineral water and maybe a bit of Canada. We don't drink as much as the Germans.

Regular shops are fruit, vegetables, bread, cheese, eggs, fish, tinned tuna, milk, juice, olives, pasta, pasta sauce, beans, rice, humous, yoghurt, jam, peanut butter, sugar free/low sugar cereal, coffee, tea, beer, etc. Our downfall is ready meals for some midweek suppers when we're pressed for time. We're trying to cut that out though.

We don't buy biscuits except once in a blue moon but do make muffins / biscuits regularly. I'm the only one who eats meat so rarely have it at home. DH keeps buying crisps for us, even though I've asked him to cut it out as I have low willpower.

DH makes his own bread as he's gluten free.

Australia could be my kitchen - lots and lots of meat, crreals and too much juice :)

The uk was an embarrassment i could'nt have that amount of utter shite in the house. We have bits every week but just not multipacks/half a cupboard full

My house is like Britain, because I don't think any other country has so thoroughly embraced different kinds of food from all over the world.

(this comment does not really reflect the photos though)

I agree with Boomba

I think we shop like France mostly, but a bit more veg and fruit, although depending on where the French family are they could have a veg/fruit patch for their needs [Most of Dijon are did when we lived there] and shopping was daily at the market. Dinner was interesting depending on how early I went to the market and how productive I felt they had a distinct lack of ready meals and comfort food
at Mali and Chad

I'd say we're between Italy China and India. Not much processed stuff.