Btw,the Sicilian family definitely don't represent the 'typical' Italian family- way too much bread,cereal and fizzy drinks. When I've lived with Italians, they mostly had biscuits for breakfast and hardly ever drink things like coke. Plus they're quite snobby about consuming things like hot dogs and frozen foods, instead favouring fresh produce.

Yeah, but they have 3 children... when I stayed in Italy, I noticed a lot of younger people drinking sodas.

at least they have fresh fruit & veggies to help balance out all the bread etc. wow, that's alot of money for a table half full of fruits, veggies, and bread! i will never complain about my grocery bill again.

Less bread and only two bottles of light soda. More meat and fish (mainly 'white' meat though which contain more proteins and not much fat) and that's what we have here at home.
I live in the South of France hence the similarities.
We don't have candy or chips ever but we do like to nibble once in a while on a piece of dark chocolate of high quality.

Just an add concerning the bill : I have about 150€ a week for two. Fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and quality meat costs a lot in Europe... I do often buy "bio" products which makes my grocery bill about 30% more expensive than if they were "normal".

WOAHHH lots of grub, who for?

sugarspin - it's part of a series of photos of families in different countries surrounded by a week's worth of food - it's really interesting, you should check it out!

This is one interesting series! The book is now on my wishlist... But something is missing: Since the cost of living can be very different from country to country it would be more interesting to relate there expenditure to their income.