Japan

Food cost for one week: 1891

Favorite foods: sashimi, fruit, cake, potato chips

Italy

Food cost for one week: 1270

Favorite foods: fish, pasta with tomato sauce, hot dogs, frozen fish sticks

Chad

Food cost for one week: 8+ 134 in food rations (from the United Nations and other NGOs)

Favorite foods: soup with fresh sheep meat

Kuwait

Food cost for one week: 1320

Family recipe: Chicken biryani with basmati rice

United States: North Carolina

Food cost for one week: 2037

Favorite foods: spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken

United States: California

Food cost for one week: 950

Favorite foods: beef stew, berry yogurt

sundae, clam chowder, ice cream

Mexico

Food cost for one week: 1125

Favorite foods: pizza, crab, pasta, chicken

China

Food cost for one week: 925

Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet

and sour sauce

Poland

Food cost for one week: 895

Family recipe: Pig's knuckles with carrots,

celery and parsnips

Egypt

Food cost for one week: 410

Family recipe: Okra and mutton

Ecuador

Food cost for one week: 190

Family recipe: Potato soup with cabbage

Mongolia

Food cost for one week: 235

Family recipe: Mutton dumplings

Great Britain

Food cost for one week: 1505

Favorite foods: avocado, mayonnaise sandwich,

prawn cocktail, chocolate fudge cake with cream

Bhutan

Food cost for one week: 30

Family recipe: Mushroom, cheese & pork

Germany

Food cost for one week: 3000

Favorite foods: fried potatoes with onions, bacon and herring, fried noodles with eggs and

cheese, pizza, vanilla pudding

Guatemala

Food cost for one week: 500

Family Recipe: Turkey Stew and Susana Perez

Matias's Sheep Soup

Australia

Food cost for one week: 2240

Family Recipe: Marge Brown's Quandong

(an Australian peach) Pie, Yogurt

Luxembourg

Food cost for one week: 2775

Favorite Foods: Shrimp pizza, Chicken in

wine sauce, Turkish kebabs

India

Food cost for one week: 235

Family Recipe: Sangeeta Patkar's Poha

(Rice Flakes)

United States : Texas

Food cost for one week: 1450

Favorite Foods: Shrimp with Alfredo sauce,

chicken mole, barbecue ribs, pizza

Mali

Food cost for one week: 145

Family Recipe: Natomo Family

Rice Dish

Canada

Food cost for one week: 2053

Favorite Foods: narwhal, polar bear, extra

cheese stuffed crust pizza, watermelon

France

Food cost for one week: 2500

Favorite Foods: Delphine Le Moine's Apricot Tarts, pasta carbonara, Thai food

Greenland

Food cost for one week: 1650

Favorite Foods: polar bear, narwhal skin,

seal stew

Turkey

Food cost for one week: 867

Favorite Foods: Melahat's Puffed Pastries

Cuba

Food cost for one week: 345 plus 86 in government rations

Favorite Foods: Most Cubans work for the government and make about 93per month, but housing, education, and healthcare are free and all Cubans receive a basic food ration.

Philippines

Food cost for one week: 310

Favorite Foods: salty bread, pan de sal, with Cheez Whiz

Chad

Food cost for one week: 100+ 140 in homegrown food

China

Food cost for one week: 32+ 10 in homegrown food

Luxembourg

Food cost for one week: 800

Japan

Food cost for one week: 1175

Australia: The Molloy family of

Brisbane

Food cost for one week: 1735

Bosnia

Food cost for one week: 990