Comments on My Diet Meals Reviews and Recipes: What People Eat Around the World

Over $300 a week you've gotta be kidding me! I cr...

2009-03-30T22:03:00.000-07:00

Over $300 a week you've gotta be kidding me! I cringe when I spend $100, but it's all extra lean meats and fruits and veggies when in season.

It appears that Peter Menzel interviewed a big spe...

2007-09-23T23:35:00.000-07:00

It appears that Peter Menzel interviewed a big spender family to assess their food spending :).

Wow. We consider ourselves VERY well off - we don'...

2007-09-23T17:59:00.000-07:00

Wow. We consider ourselves VERY well off - we don't check food prices. But, I see the receipts, and no WAY do we spend that much on food. We (in the US) spend more on the order of $200 in a BIG week. We buy more groceries than that, but they're things like paper towels that we aren't eating and could easily live without. Even with those, we don't reach $300.

That's just insane.

Anonymous: Well I don't know how Peter assessed th...

2007-09-17T03:28:00.000-07:00

Anonymous: Well I don't know how Peter assessed the cost of food in his book but I assumed he conducted an interview and asked the family to shop for a week supply and monitoring their activity within a week.
Yes cost in Japan is crazy, my friend told me that a bowl of low end ramen can cost $11.

HF Mommy: 200 RM is about $30 right? That's not a lot in my opinion.

how do you assess the cost of food? My memory of l...

2007-09-16T11:11:00.000-07:00

how do you assess the cost of food? My memory of living in Japan 20 years ago was that in order to cope with the high cost of living, I had to think that £4 in yen was worth only £1, or I would have felt guilty about buying anything! Also, food in America is much cheaper than the UK.

My family spends more than RM200 on groceries per ...

2007-09-11T19:06:00.000-07:00

My family spends more than RM200 on groceries per week, excluding eating out bills. That's a lot huh? I try to stay away from canned food and processed food as much as possible.

@shane: sometimes 'fresh' costs as much as 'preser...

2007-09-11T07:07:00.001-07:00

@shane: sometimes 'fresh' costs as much as 'preservative ladened'.

My family spend around $60 per week for good food ...

2007-09-11T07:07:00.000-07:00

My family spend around $60 per week for good food and we seldom cook too.

Very interesting and just goes to show how the pro...

2007-09-11T00:37:00.000-07:00

Very interesting and just goes to show how the processed food is so much more expensive in comparison to fresh

In HK I spend more and less around US$350. But I d...

2007-09-10T22:36:00.000-07:00

In HK I spend more and less around US$350. But I don't do a lot of cooking myself, I tend to dine out everyday.

Maybe it is just the UK, but processed foods seem ...

2007-09-10T12:22:00.000-07:00

Maybe it is just the UK, but processed foods seem to be the cheapest, things like ready meals. We spend the equvilant of $200 per week but only because we buy lots of fresh fruit and veg.

I dunno how much my family spent in a week for foo...

2007-09-10T06:16:00.000-07:00

I dunno how much my family spent in a week for foods. But I spent about $50 a week in foods for myself~

Wow - this was very interesting Cherry! My family...

2007-09-10T06:02:00.000-07:00

Wow - this was very interesting Cherry! My family (in Canada)spends about $200 per week on groceries, but we try to stay away from most pre-packaged stuff which would add to the costs.

p.s. I like your new header.

The Japanese shop surprised me as I thought they h...

2007-09-10T04:48:00.000-07:00

The Japanese shop surprised me as I thought they had a fair bit of fruit and fish of course and yet this cost the same as the Junk that the American family had?