Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluision’s book “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats” aims to catalogue the feeding needs of various families around the world for seven days. Each family is photographed with their groceries and gives details about the money spent on food per week.

Australian Brown Family from River View

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $376.45

Favorite Recipe: Marge Brown’s Quandong Pie  (Australian peach pie)

 Japan: The Ukita Family from Kodaira City

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $317.25

Favorite Food: sashimi, fruit, cake, chips

Chad: The Aboubakar Family from the refugee camp at Breidjing

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $1.23

Favorite food: Soup with fresh lamb

Mexico: The Casale Family from Cuernavaca

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $189.09

Favorite food: pizza, crabs, pasta, chicken

Ecuador: Ayme family from Tingo

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $31.55

Favorite food: Potato soup with cabbage

The United Kingdom: The Bainton family from Clingbourne Ducis

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $253.15

Favorite food: Avocado, Sandwiches with mayonnaise, shrimps cocktail, chocolate cake with cream

Bhutan: The Namgay family from Shingkhey Village

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $5.03

Favorite food: mushrooms, cheese and pork

 Germany: The Melander Family from Bargteheide

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $500.07

Favorite food: Fries with onions, bacon, fried noodles with eggs, cheese, pizza and vanilla pudding

Mongolia: The Batsuuri Family from Ulan Bator

Expenditure for a week’s supply of grocery: $40.02

Favorite recipe: lamb dumplings

Poland: The Sobczynscy family from Konstancin-Jeziorn

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $151.27

Favorite recipe: Pork gocci with carrots, celery and parsnips

China: Dong family from Beijing

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $155.06

Favorite food: fried finely cut pork with sweet and sour sauce

The United States: The Revi family from North Carolina

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $341.98

Favorite food: pasta, potatoes, chicken with sesame

 Kuwait: The Al Haggan family from Kuwait City

Expenditure for a week’s supply of food: $221.45

Favorite Recipe: Chicken biryani with basmati rice

Italy: The Manzo family from Sicily

Expenditure for a week’s supply of food: $260.11

Favorite food: fish, pasta with ragou sauce, hot dogs, frozen fish sticks

 Guatemala: The Mendoza family from Todos Santos

Expenditure for a week’s supply of food: $75.70

Favorite recipe: Boiled turkey and Susana Perez Matias’s lamb soup

 Luxemburg: The Kuttan-Kasse family from Erpeldange

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $465.84

Favorite food: shrimp pizza, chicken with wine sauce, kebab

 India: The Patkar Family from Ujjain

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $39.27

Favorite food: Sangeeta Patkar’s Poha

United States: The Fernandeze family from Texas

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $242.48

Favorite food: Shrimps with Alfredo sauce, barbecued ribs, pizza

Mali: The Natomo Family from Kouakourou

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $26.39

Favorite recipe: Creative rice recipe

Canada: The Melanson family from Iqaluit

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $345

Favorite food: Rhino whale meat, polar bear meat, pizza, melon

France: The Le Moines from Montreuil, near Paris

Expenditure for a week’s supply of food: $419.95

Favorite food: Delphine Le Moine apricot tarts, Thai food, carbonara

Greenland: The Madsen family from Cape Hope

Expenditure for a week’s supply of groceries: $277.12

Favorite food: Polar bear meet, Rhino whale meat, boiled seal

 Turkey: The Celik family from Istanbul

Expenditure for a week’s supply of food: $145.88

Favorite food: Melahat bread