food for a week

The picture above shows some parts of food that my family consumes in a week. That's for a family of six. Our diets seems quiet healthy, the fruits always take a big proportion in our weekly food spending. Since I am in host family with another Chinese girl, rice is always one part of our spending and sometimes noodles. The following are the receipts of my family food expenditure for a week. My family does weekly food shopping and we mostly go to stop& shop, which is the nearest food stores from home. And we always do shopping separately. (Long receipts is for whole family and short one is my food shopping receipts) 

Total: about $200

Meat: about $20

Grain and starchy food: about $30

Fruit: about $80

Vegetable: about $30

Milk and juice: about $40

In my family, we eat together for about twice a week. We sometimes get take out (Chinese food or Mexican food) once a week. And we eat food outside mostly every Friday. The picture below shows a meal that we eat together. And Mrs. Ryan is the one who cooks if we eat together. For the rest of week that we don't eat together, we always cook our own meal separately.

And the following is the looks of our kitchen:

What the world eat

Country: Mali

How much spent for food per week: $26.39

Grain and other starchy food: $ 11.77

Diary: $0.3

Meat, fish and egg: $1.49

Fruit, vegetable and nuts: $6.5

Condiments: $6.03

Prepared food: $0.3

Homemade food: none

Beverage: water from community 

The weekly food expenditures of this 15-members family is only $26.39 in Kouakourou, Mali. It means there is only one quarter spend per person a day. And with the fact that 90% of the family in Mali living  on less than $2 a day. The population of Kouakourou village in Mali has only 2,200 approximately. And the population living below the poverty line in urban is 30% and 70 in rural area of Mali. There is big amount of population in Mali is farmers or fishermen (80%). And 10% of the population is nomadic. Only 1% of the household in rural area has electricity access.
The picture above indicates that the diet is not balance in this family. 154.4Ib of grain and starchy per week consumed in this family but only 4.4Ib of meat only. There is only 1.1 gal sour mild per week for 15 people in this family, which only o.o1gal per person a day. About 65% of land in Mali is desert or semidesert which could not grow grain well.