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good god
ok, this is a book called "what the world eats", featuring photographs of families from various places in the world with a week's worth of their groceries
this Australian family of seven, a single mother, her parents, two teenage boys, one teenage girl, and one younger girl, has this:
11 lb smoked ham, 9.9 lb corned beef, 6.6 lb each ground meat, pork chops, sausages, "steakettes", 4.4 lb each chicken, rissoles (?), 2 dozen eggs, 2.2 lb each beef patties and fish fingers
and one week's food in January: at time of publication, USD$376.45 !!
(in 2008)
elsewhere they talk about biweekly trips which would be a little more believable, but still
SIXTY POUNDS of meat products per week?
i do not believe each of these people is eating 8.6 pounds of meat per day
especially a five-year-old girl
so i can only imagine this is "typical grocery trip" and that a number of these things last longer than 1 week
however, there's no note similar to those next to some others that say "amount of dried fish in the photo is approx 3 months' worth"...
good god
ok, this is a book called "what the world eats", featuring photographs of families from various places in the world with a week's worth of their groceries
this Australian family of seven, a single mother, her parents, two teenage boys, one teenage girl, and one younger girl, has this:
11 lb smoked ham, 9.9 lb corned beef, 6.6 lb each ground meat, pork chops, sausages, "steakettes", 4.4 lb each chicken, rissoles (?), 2 dozen eggs, 2.2 lb each beef patties and fish fingers
and one week's food in January: at time of publication, USD$376.45 !!
(in 2008)
elsewhere they talk about biweekly trips which would be a little more believable, but still
SIXTY POUNDS of meat products per week?
i do not believe each of these people is eating 8.6 pounds of meat per day
especially a five-year-old girl
so i can only imagine this is "typical grocery trip" and that a number of these things last longer than 1 week
however, there's no note similar to those next to some others that say "amount of dried fish in the photo is approx 3 months' worth"...