Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village

Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
Family recipe: Mushroom, cheese and pork

What the World Eats is a lovely photo essay in Time, 16 photographs by Peter Menzel from the book Hungry Planet.

Each family is photographed surrounded by their food for a week; its cost, and their favorite foods, are noted.

The family in a camp in Chad has the least food, spending $1.23 a week. (They get rations from the U.N., otherwise the cost would be $24.37.) The Germans have the most, and spend $500.07, including $91.01 for vitamins and herbal supplements.

Use the bottom set of "next" buttons on this slideshow; the top set is broken.

NPR does a nice takeout from the book, detailing the exact purchases of four of the families. It's accompanied by audio from Michele Norris.