World Food Week, Part 1

This week, we’re running a series of reports about how much food families around the world eat. Below is a picture of the Revis family of North Carolina, who spend approximately $342 on food each week.

Note how many bags of chips, fast food items, and sweets the family buys, and compare this to your family’s food intake. Are your kitchen’s contents similar?

Compare these items with the green and healthy foods here. Do you think this kind of food distribution reflects the ever-increasing obesity rate in America?

What we’d like for you to do is to try a little experiment. Try monitoring all of the food you buy this week and note what you buy. How much is fresh food? How much is packaged? How much do you spend on fast food, or food overall?

Do you think that this family has more than enough? What about your own family?

Is your food spending wasteful, or frugal? How can you modify what you spend on food to help you during this time of economic instability? Share your answers in the blog comments.

Send your notes and a picture, if you like, to Laura @ onepinky.com and we’ll highlight them in our world food week special.

Check in on Wednesday to see how other countries compare with the United States. You may be surprised!

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