Your weekly grocery shop
May 5th 2013 | 4:54 pm
#16
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
Not in Nunavut it doesn't. They should have done a grocery shop in a more populated area where the prices are reasonable. Last year when I was home we did shopping in Burlington Ontario (just outside Toronto) for a family of 6 (3 adults & 3 kids - 2 of whom are teenagers) for about $150/wk.
May 5th 2013 | 9:55 pm
#17
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
Yup. They are a delicacy in Greenland. Small Auk like birds IIRC. They catch them en masse, packed really tightly into sealskin sacks then stored in holes in the ground covered with stones, for about a year. They ferment which 'cooks' the birds and they are then removed and eaten pretty much whole.
This is the documentary I saw about it
Kiviaq
This is the documentary I saw about it
Kiviaq
May 5th 2013 | 10:28 pm
#18
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
None of those look anything like our weekly shop. For one thing, we don't buy soda (fizzy, pop, whatever you call it) or crisps or candy. We also don't buy a lot of packaged crap.
I think if I had to choose one of those homes to eat all my meals at it would be the Indian family's. They have the best looking stuff on their table.
I think if I had to choose one of those homes to eat all my meals at it would be the Indian family's. They have the best looking stuff on their table.
We never enter the crisps and fizz aisle.
Never buy frozen food, except expensive ice-cream.
And we don't throw any food away - It seems some household throw away 30-50% of what they buy.
May 5th 2013 | 10:40 pm
#19
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
This report is not current.
It's been around since 2005. The costs probably bear no relation to reality today.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5005952
http://www.homelessnation.org/en/node/7412
It's been around since 2005. The costs probably bear no relation to reality today.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5005952
http://www.homelessnation.org/en/node/7412
May 5th 2013 | 11:09 pm
#20
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
None of those look anything like our weekly shop. For one thing, we don't buy soda (fizzy, pop, whatever you call it) or crisps or candy. We also don't buy a lot of packaged crap.
I think if I had to choose one of those homes to eat all my meals at it would be the Indian family's. They have the best looking stuff on their table.
I think if I had to choose one of those homes to eat all my meals at it would be the Indian family's. They have the best looking stuff on their table.
You certain of that? It just seems that we are living longer and longer the 'worse' our diet seems to get. As nations adopt a more 'Western style' diet does their average life expectancy decrease?
My mother is 93 and never been treated for anything that could have extended her life span... admittedly she's not a big fan of fizzy drinks, but she must have eaten a fair amount of that 'horror diet' over the years.
My mother is 93 and never been treated for anything that could have extended her life span... admittedly she's not a big fan of fizzy drinks, but she must have eaten a fair amount of that 'horror diet' over the years.
Life expectancy is worked out by many factors not just diet.
Wealth, medical care, diet, crime, smoking, war etc etc
http://health.howstuffworks.com/well...expectancy.htm
Wealth, medical care, diet, crime, smoking, war etc etc
http://health.howstuffworks.com/well...expectancy.htm
Obesity is real in the West and I think it might get quite interesting.
For every person I know who is likely to live a long life I know of someone who died relatively early - by 65, and often earlier, in any case. I think as obesity in kids increases we will see sad stats.
May 5th 2013 | 11:15 pm
#21
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
Fascinating article, ( daily mail comes up trumps for once ) on the weekly shop and how it varies worldwide. All in pictures.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-3-20-320.html
Shocking amount of packaged food in some families, and a reminder of how natural the diet can be ( poor countries ).
Being a bit of a health freak, well the teens claim I am
I reckon often the families on the veggies and grain diets looked a hell of a lot healthier, glowing even compared to the western horror diet.
The bags of fatty meat
in one picture horrified me and it wasn't obvious from the picture what country it was from till you read it.
The pudgy palid look seems to go with the western diet too.
Ours, probably 60%+ veggies/fruit/grains, very little junk. But would cover a huge table!! - teenage boys, skinny eating machines.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-3-20-320.html
Shocking amount of packaged food in some families, and a reminder of how natural the diet can be ( poor countries ).
Being a bit of a health freak, well the teens claim I am
I reckon often the families on the veggies and grain diets looked a hell of a lot healthier, glowing even compared to the western horror diet. The bags of fatty meat
in one picture horrified me and it wasn't obvious from the picture what country it was from till you read it. The pudgy palid look seems to go with the western diet too.
Ours, probably 60%+ veggies/fruit/grains, very little junk. But would cover a huge table!! - teenage boys, skinny eating machines.
I thought that the British family had one of the worst in terms of packages, the Californian family also looked on a hiding...I didn't recognise a lot of stuff from the 3rd world but it did look healthier.
The Australian family didn't look too bad, but ruined it with a lot of meat.
I think the families should stop worrying about their food expenditure and focus on their clothing...this is from someone who does not generally point the finger at people's clothing....either that, or it was 1985!
May 5th 2013 | 11:37 pm
#22
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
Just had a shufty through the photos..
I thought that the British family had one of the worst in terms of packages, the Californian family also looked on a hiding...I didn't recognise a lot of stuff from the 3rd world but it did look healthier.
The Australian family didn't look too bad, but ruined it with a lot of meat.
I think the families should stop worrying about their food expenditure and focus on their clothing...this is from someone who does not generally point the finger at people's clothing....either that, or it was 1985!
I thought that the British family had one of the worst in terms of packages, the Californian family also looked on a hiding...I didn't recognise a lot of stuff from the 3rd world but it did look healthier.
The Australian family didn't look too bad, but ruined it with a lot of meat.
I think the families should stop worrying about their food expenditure and focus on their clothing...this is from someone who does not generally point the finger at people's clothing....either that, or it was 1985!
I'm sure Mr Namgay from Shingkhey Village would appreciate the number of your Savile Row tailor
May 6th 2013 | 6:47 pm
#23
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
I have to admit, I am not talking about people on subsistence diets - it seems to me that all the diets are enough and in the case of many of the 3rd world examples, healthier....and even superior.
I was taking the piss naturally. Allow me to do what tens of BE posters do all the time...!
I don't know - people always complain about the standards of QLD dress, well I saw it in all the *Western* families pictured - certainly not a metrosexual or Next costume in sight....barely a renovated kitchen which surprised me. The pictures looked dated. It's great - we see so many people obsessed with renovation etc...remember next time someone complains about Australian kitchens, houses, clothes, food....
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May 6th 2013 | 6:48 pm
#24
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
[QUOTE]Yup. They are a delicacy in Greenland. Small Auk like birds IIRC. They catch them en masse, packed really tightly into sealskin sacks then stored in holes in the ground covered with stones, for about a year. They ferment which 'cooks' the birds and they are then removed and eaten pretty much whole.
/QUOTE]
Interesting, if I'm ever food shopping in Greenland I'll look out for the bird aisle!
/QUOTE]
Interesting, if I'm ever food shopping in Greenland I'll look out for the bird aisle!
May 6th 2013 | 8:04 pm
#25
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
If you read some of the comments below the article, there is mention that the photos are a good 10-15 years old and the DM have done this story before using the same old photos.
May 6th 2013 | 8:21 pm
#26
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
There you go then....I'm amazed that even the DM would resurrect photos that old...I don't think I have seen photos that old used in a paper especially online. So I wasn't seeing things.....
May 6th 2013 | 8:22 pm
#27
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
Despite the fact it looks like a scene from the Sullivans some of the packaging in the Australia pic is way more recent than 10 years. But it is the daily mail, doted on by so many here. They did a great story about a routine engine shut down followed by emergency landing the other day where apparently the was terror as an explosion ripped through the aircraft & and of course the pilots had to struggle to regain control of the stricken aircraft.
May 6th 2013 | 10:39 pm
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
For their enormously successful Material World, photojournalist Menzel and writer D'Aluisio traveled the world photographing average people's worldly possessions. In 2000, they began research for this book on the world's eating habits, visiting some 30 families in 24 countries.
http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Planet-.../dp/0984074422
My post #19 links to an article published in 2005 which featured some of the photos.
So I'd say that the photos range in age from 8-13 years.
May 6th 2013 | 10:43 pm
#29
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
Despite the fact it looks like a scene from the Sullivans some of the packaging in the Australia pic is way more recent than 10 years. But it is the daily mail, doted on by so many here. They did a great story about a routine engine shut down followed by emergency landing the other day where apparently the was terror as an explosion ripped through the aircraft & and of course the pilots had to struggle to regain control of the stricken aircraft.
They could have portrayed an Aussie suburban family decked out in Target and Myer and mall.
May 6th 2013 | 11:00 pm
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Re: Your weekly grocery shop
Don't British people eat meat anymore? Do 'they' only eat cereal and biscuits type stuff? 
