Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio travelled the world spending $600,000 taking photographs of families across the world and asking them to buy a normal weeks worth of food.
This is what they found:
1. The Melander family of Bargteheide (Germany)
Food for a 4-person family, cost: $ 500.07 (£349)
2. The Kutten-Kass family from Erpeldange (Luxembourg)
Products for a family of 4, cost: $ 465.84 (£325)
3. The Le Moine family from Paris (France)
Food for 4 people, cost: $ 419.95 (£293)
4. The Brown family from Riverview (Australia)
Food for a 7-person family, cost: $ 376 (£262)
5. The Revis family from North Carolina (USA)
Weekly supplies for 4 people, cost: $ 341.98 (£239)
6.The Ukita family from Kodaira City (Japan)
Food for four people, cost: $ 317.25 (£221)
7. The Haggan Al family from Kuwait
Food for an 8-person family, cost: $ 221.45 (£154)
8. The Casales family from Cuernavaca (Mexico)
Products for 5 people, cost: $ 189.09 (£132)
9. The Dong family from Beijing (China)
Food for a family of 4, cost: $ 155.06 (£108)
10. The Sobczyńskich family from Konstancin-Jeziorna (Poland)
A week’s worth of food for 5 people and a dog, cost: $ 151.27 (£105)
11. The Ahmed family from Cairo (Egypt)
Groceries for 12 people, cost: $ 68.53 (£47)
12. The Batsuuri family from Ulaanbaatar’u (Mongolia)
Food for 4 people, cost: $ 40.02 (£27)
13. The Patkar family from Ujjainu (India)
Groceries for a family of 4, cost: $ 39.27 (£27)
14. The Ayme family from Tingo (Ecuador)
Food for 9 people, cost: $ 31.55 (£22)
15. The Aboubakar family from Breidjing camp in Chad (Sudan)
Groceries for 5 people, it costs $23 (£16)
16. The Namgay family from the village of Shingkhey (Butane)
Food for a 13-person family, the cost is $ 5.03 (£3.52)
Photo sources: Daily Mail & Peter Menzel Photography
Notes: The amounts reported to have cost vary on the 4 websites we checked, the original artists mentions much lower/higher prices for some. The full photographs/comments can be found on what we believe is his Photoshelter account
