{"id":3327,"date":"2013-10-17T16:19:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2015-09-17T13:45:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T19:45:24","slug":"we-are-what-our-nation-eats-a-week-of-groceries-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/2013\/10\/17\/we-are-what-our-nation-eats-a-week-of-groceries-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are What We Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A week of groceries from around the world<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/eating-around-the-world.jpg\" rel=\"wp-prettyPhoto[3327]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3778\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 12px; border: 0px none;\" src=\"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/eating-around-the-world.jpg\" alt=\"eating-around-the-world\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>In the checkout line at the supermarket, do you look inside your shopping cart and wonder if you have enough fruits and veggies, or the right amount of carbohydrates?\u00a0What about the cart in front of you in line? Do you judge their packages of red dye #40 hotdogs or sugar-coated Fruit Loops? If so, you are not alone.<\/p>\n<p>We can be conscious consumers, and choose the right foods for the right reasons. These choices are shaped by availability (season, shopping location, and growing zones) and hopefully by the sustainability of the products. We want to share with you an eye-opening series photographed by <a href=\"http:\/\/menzelphoto.photoshelter.com\/gallery-slideshow\/G0000dcX0a5UM_Vk\">Peter Menzel<\/a> where\u00a0he traveled around the word showing just what <a href=\"http:\/\/fstoppers.com\/what-a-week-of-groceries-looks-like-around-the-world\">a week&#8217;s worth of groceries looks like<\/a> &#8212; family by family, country by country.\u00a0Note the amount of processed, package food vs. fresh produce and how this varies by country. Pizza anyone?<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" title=\"What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" src=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/00175392.jpg\" alt=\"00175392 What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The United States<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" title=\"What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" src=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/00175372.jpg\" alt=\"00175372 What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong> Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" title=\"What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" src=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/00175442.jpg\" alt=\"00175442 What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>France<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" title=\"What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" src=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/00175452.jpg\" alt=\"00175452 What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" src=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/00175482.jpg\" alt=\"00175482 What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Kuwait<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" title=\"What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" src=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/00175512.jpg\" alt=\"00175512 What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mali<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" title=\"What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" src=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/00175552.jpg\" alt=\"00175552 What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Ecuador<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" src=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/00175542.jpg\" alt=\"00175542 What A Week Of Groceries Looks Like Around The World\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Chad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Changes the perspective a bit, doesn&#8217;t it? For more interesting photos in the series, see the full article posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/we-are-what-our-nation-eats-a-week-of-groceries-from-around-the-world\/\">Fstoppers<\/a>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the checkout line at the supermarket, do you look inside your shopping cart and wonder if you have enough fruits and veggies, or the right amount of carbohydrates? What about the cart in front of you in line? Do you judge their packages of red dye #40 hotdogs or sugar-coated Fruit Loops? If so, you are not alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1344,1359,1345],"tags":[10,1310,1306,1311,1313,1312,28,1314,1309,1307,1308,8],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-featured-post","category-health","tag-carolyn-parrs","tag-cultures","tag-food-around-the-world","tag-food-buying","tag-fresh-food","tag-international-families","tag-mind-over-markets","tag-peter-menzel","tag-photography","tag-processed-foods","tag-produce","tag-women-of-green"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5242,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions\/5242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}