Cost Of Food Around The World

The Women's Food and Farming Union (WFU) have been looking at the weekly diet of families around the world and the cost of food for those families in different countries. (April 2008)

• In Germany the food expenditure for one week is $500.07.
• In the United States the food expenditure for one week is $341.98.
• In Italy the food expenditure for one week is $260.11.
• In Mexico the food expenditure for one week is 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09.
• In Poland the food expenditure for one week is 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27.
• In Egypt the food expenditure for one week is 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53.
• In Ecuador the food expenditure for one week: $31.55.
• In Bhutan the food expenditure for one week is 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
• In Chad the food expenditure for one week is 685 CFA Francs or $1.23.
  

What's your food expenditure for one week? This is certainly food for thought.