Hungry Planet - Australia

On 12/7 I did a presentation about an Australian family and their food consumption featured on the book called Hungry Planet in the english class, and I thought it would be a great idea to share it in this blog, so here we go.

The pictures above show the typical Australian foods. You may have heard about Vegemite, the fermented spread, but there are much more than just that! Timtam, the chocolate bar is a classic Australian snack, and just like in Great Britain they eat meat-pies, fries, burgers, and grilled chicken. The unique one is fairy bread, a simple sugar toast commonly eaten by children at birthday parties in Australia. Also, major part of Australian cuisine is based on seafoods due to its location.

This is the Molly family and their weekly consumed foods. In the middle stands Emily, the mother of the family. The man next to her is the father John, and the girl is their daughter Nathalie. Finally, the boy staring at the huge vegetable is Sean, smallest child of the family. 

In total, they spent $303.75 on the week.

The family spends the most of their food expenditure on meat, fish and eggs ($84.31). However, unlike common Australians the family doesn't eat much seafoods. This is because Emily can't stand with seafoods and she is the one who does all the shopping, although John and Sean love seafoods.

Nathalie loves Vegemite smeared on a toast. I personally could not imagine eating it, but its the matter of being used to it I suppose.

Besides on the list, sometimes they get to eat asian food too, since Sean's day care provider is from Sri Lanka. 

Lastly, I compared the similarities between my diet and Australians'. Australia and Japan has one feature in common, and that is the fact that both countries are surrounded by sea. Therefore, we both eat a lot of seafood, but also meat since globalization affected largely on our diet. Although there are varieties in this category, eating fermented foods is also in common. I was quite shocked that Tonkatsu sauce was listed on the Molly's weekly consumed foods. Is it commonly eaten by Australians? Let me know in the comment section if anybody knows.