What do you eat?
I have just visited a very interesting website from Time magazine. It has a slideshow showing what fifteen families around the world eat in a week. Which family best represents your family and why? Compare the costs per person rather than per family. Why do some families have mainly fruit and vegetables with a grain like rice or maize? What is the difference between food eaten in developed countries like Germany and USA and Great Britain and those from less developed countries like Chad, Mexico and Ecuador? Create a graph using some aspect of these photos. Research two of the countries and compare developed/less developed. This website might have some interesting facts about the two countries you chose. How up to date is the information?
March 30, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
Hi from Jacksonville, Florida, USA. I am so happy you added us (Tech Explorers) to your blogroll. I am the teacher, Mrs. Hernandez. My students are mostly 4th and 5th graders and one third grader. I know they will be so excited to see that they had a visitor from the other side of the world! Please have your students visit our blogs and comment. Our Tech Explorers group is an afterschool group that meets every Monday. We will be visiting your students’ blogs this Monday and will leave some comments for you, too. Look forward to learning more about you and about Tasmania!
-Ms. H
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March 31, 2008 @ 7:49 am
hi there,
Me and my friends just had a look at your blog. We really liked looking at your post about ‘What do you eat?’ – our favourite foods are: prawns, pork, and ham.
We just wanted to know some stuff that you put on your blog:
How did you get that colourful title that says HAPPY EASTER?
Have you had many people come onto your blog?
Oh and if you want to reply come to
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From: jock, iosa and CJ
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April 2, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
This is an awsome blog.
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April 5, 2008 @ 9:14 pm
Dear Miss W & class,
Warm regards from the state of Kansas in the USA.You have a wonderful thing happening in your class, when you can so easily interact with people around the world. I think it is so exciting to think what the future holds for young people.
When I saw your blog and this post about foods we eat, I knew that I had to comment for several reason. I was a sailor in the US Navy, and my visit to Hobart, Tasmania on the USS Missouri in 1991 was one of my most memorable experiences of my life. I dream of the day I can afford to return for another visit. I met some wonderfully friendly people during my short visit there and was able to explore a great deal in only four days. I even managed to take a trip to the Great Lake and catch a beautiful lake trout for dinner-Yum! So there’s one food I like. It was April, and I recall it was quite chilly on that fishing trip to the highlands of Tasmania. I plan to do a little fishing again soon, although it is still cool here right now. We are looking forward to warm springtime very soon.
Another reason I wanted to comment on the food post is that when I am not teaching my computer classes at Kansas State University, I am helping my wife operate her home-based business, Wendy’s Party Treats. You can see what that is all about at http://www.wendyspartytreats.com. Right now it is mostly about snacks and dessert foods, but we are discussing adding more healthy foods to eat. At least you can see what Americans in Kansas like to have to eat at a party.
Well that is all for now. If you are interested, and would like to learn more about the Battleship Missouri, or anything I can tell you about where I live for that matter, drop me an e-mail at billgx@ksu.edu.
Have fun and learn a lot!
Bill Genereux
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April 17, 2008 @ 2:11 pm
hi miss w
i like to eat lots of things. The most favorite thing i like to eat is an apple.
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April 18, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Hi,
There is many different families that eat completely different foods. The price of grocerys per week vary from family to family. Some of the families I would not like to be!!!
Lisa
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May 2, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
Wow!!! I cant believe wat some families eat. I think my family would be more like the revis family the casales family and the caven family.
My family and I eat some junk foods but have a serve of veggies and/or fruit a day.I wouldnt consider my family healthy but then I wouldnt consider my family not healthy were kind of in the middle.
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May 7, 2008 @ 2:53 pm
Hey Miss W,
far out some people eat some junk, and some people eat hardly nothing a day.. My family eats some junk food and fare bit of healthy food… we have vegies for tea most nights and fruit for lunch.. ok cya
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May 7, 2008 @ 7:28 pm
Hi
I thought that it was great to see what other people eat and can hardly afford.
Here in Australia we take food for granted while others are in need.
It really opend my eyes about what I eat.
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May 7, 2008 @ 7:29 pm
Hi
I thought that it was great to see what other people eat and can hardly afford.
Here in Australia we take food for granted while others are in need.
It really opend my eyes about what I eat. I now pay for donations like $1 doller a day helps a family. I hope others do aswell!
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May 8, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
Hey miss w
Watching that just shows how luky we are here in australia my family spends about $200 dollers.
cya
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May 8, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
Hi Miss W
There are some families that eat a lot of junk but there are some others that only have a helthy food. My family have veggie nearly every night for tea. Some people spend a lot of money on their grocerys and some spend hardly anything.
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May 8, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
hey miss w
it was awesome to see what other people eat lol they eat a heaps of junk and i wonldn’t like to be like those people that gotta have a certain amount of food a week.my family eats some junk but i usally have vvegies and salad for tea and fruit for lunch. My family dont eat that much junk all though i wouldn’t say they are not healthy….cya
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May 8, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
hi miss W
I could not belive that some people only lived a $1 dollar a day I could never live on a dollar a day. But some spended more them we do but i happy that i can buy food with out going broke.
see ya
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May 8, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
hi Miss W I checked all the famillies to find that the family eating food simmilar my family is the Bainton family living in Great Britian.
its very shocking to see some people live on just a bit more than a $1 a day
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May 8, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
I can`t beleave that Chad only spends $1.23 a week.When Germany spends $500.07 a week
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May 9, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
Hi Miss W,
I just had a look at the families and what they eat. I was really suprised at the amount of food some families have, while other have hardly any. It shows how different we all are.
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May 9, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
Hi Miss W,
I had a look at all the photos of families and what food they eat.
Some families spend twice as much as what my family spends on food!
I wouldn’t like to eat what some of the families eat.
I don’t think any of these families would represent my family!
But it’s good to know what other families around the world eat!
Hannah
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May 12, 2008 @ 4:09 am
Did anyone notice how many families included soft drinks / soda pop in their weekly foods? I’m curious what the favorite drinks are in your class? Do you drink a lot of soft drinks in Australia? What do you call a drink like Coca-cola where you live? Around here, a lot of people call it “pop” but when I was in the Navy with a lot of people from different parts of America, I learned that more people call it “soda” than “pop”.
My kids drink a lot of water, milk and juice. We try to limit how much soda pop they drink. My favorite drink is simply water, but I enjoy a cup of coffee now and then. I do not drink much soda, but my wife loves it! I don’t think that soda pop is good for you, and it’s expensive too!
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May 15, 2008 @ 9:51 am
Hi Miss W,
I had a look what other people eat.
We take things for granted to much and while we are stuffing our faces, others are dying of hunger.
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May 15, 2008 @ 9:52 am
Hi Miss W,
I enjoyed looking at all the picture on the web sit my family is like the Ahmed family of Cairo in Egypt.
Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53
The best Binga
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May 15, 2008 @ 10:00 am
I think some of the food other familys eat look kind of weird. But some people might think of them as a treat.
I still can’t understand how they can live on less than $2.00 a week.
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May 15, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
Hi miss W
I woad love to live in the Reevis family. We usually spend $200 on grosses and the mayn thing we spend our money on is chips.
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May 15, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
To Miss W
That is a really good website for people to learn about how much people eat and how lucky we are. The JApanese, American and Germans had the most money a week and Chad Nigeria Egypt and Ecudor have the least.
But they might not want money.
Like a little story my dad told me. The Americans gave some crops and a tractor but the people didn’t want tractor. They planted all the crops with the tractor. But that night they all blow away. The people wanted a truck to get some rocks from the mountain. So they planted the crops and put the rocks around the crops so the wind counldn’t get to them and the crops turned into a great corn feild and there was enough for every one.
Dotti
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May 15, 2008 @ 8:34 pm
Hi,
It’s really interesting to see that many families live on only $1.28 per week, we are so rich looking at some of these families. The most expensive family is the Revis family of North Carolina with $341.98 each week!
Our family is mostly like the The Al Haggan family of Kuwait City, we eat mostly fruit vegetables meat and salad.
It’s interesting to see that most families buy bulk, while other families can not even afford to buy or recieve enough food to survive.
Lisa
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May 30, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
hi ms.wyatt when i looked at the front page of the foods and i went into where peple have heaps of food. and on the front page i sore snall shells it was very gross
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May 30, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
Hi miss w
I had trouble finding a family that resembles me and at the end I couldent find one at all. But thanks I like the ones that have lots of junk food and soft drink. Bye
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