Food

I don't believe the figures of that page, the German family spend an average of $6 per meal (£4.50?) this is huge when you consider that breakfasts probably costs way under a quid...which would give them a budget of £6.25 for lunch and the same for dinner, you'd have to have pretty expensive tastes to maintain that all week.....you could probably eat on takeaways and restaurants for every meal on that budget, which is not what the picture suggests...and we all know how cheap german beer is!....where's Oliver?

I was speaking to a Prison chef in the USA last week, his budget was $1.37 per day, per prisoner.

I haven't lived in Germany for a while, so I'm really not up-to-date on food prices. However, this is clearly a well-to-do middle-class family, and their budget will not be at all reflective of what an average German family spend. Injustice in Germany is deepening and the gaps grow wider. Someone on Hartz IV (social insecurity payments) will be on a budget closer to that of the prison cook.