OMG, her sacrifice, I'm truly humbled by her humanitarian effort..........
Here’s her latest home in Brentwood, Los Angeles
And here’s her last house in Malibu….
Posted on 04/10/2015 1:37:54 PM PDT by drewh
wyneth Paltrow has vowed to live on just $29 worth of food for a week, after agreeing to take on a charity challenge aimed at raising awareness and funds for New York's food banks. The 42-year-old mother-of-two, who founded popular lifestyle wesbite Goop, posted a picture of her $29 grocery shop on her Twitter account yesterday afternoon, showcasing a range of healthy options, including a variety of fresh vegetables, some brown rice and some black beans. 'This is what $29 gets you at the grocery store - what families on SNAP (i.e. food stamps) have to live on for a week,' she wrote alongside the image.
Unsurprisingly, although the grocery store no doubt offered a wealth of cheaper, yet more unhealthy, food options, lifestyle guru Gwyneth opted to stick to what she knows best, choosing only the healthiest and greenest of ingredients for the challenge. It looks as though Gwyneth might be going for a Mexican theme on at least one of the days of the challenge, including gluten-free tortillas, black beans, and avocado in her food haul - all the makings of a very healthy Mexican-inspired feast. In a second tweet posted yesterday, she said of the challenge: 'We're walking in their shoes to see how far we get.'
Her decision to take on the $29-per-week challenge comes less than a month after she told CNN Money that she considers herself to be 'incredibly close to the common woman'.
It is not known whether Gywneth's two children with ex-husband Chris Martin, Apple, ten, and Moses, nine, will also be taking part in the challenge however, given the limited supply of food featured in her Twitter picture, it is thought the Shakespeare in Love star is going it alone this time around.
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NICE. I could heat some frozen pizza in there!
I could easily live on $29 a week if gave up fine wine.
Dollar stores have boomed in the Era of Baraq.
Wal-Mart has become the middle class store.
My, but those are some lovely hub caps festooning your ears, my dear.
I’m 6’2”
At Aldi’s Food Store, the current prices are about 1/2 of what you have listed.
Last time I was there (2 weeks ago), eggs were 90¢ per dozen, milk was $2.39/gal, bread $1.00, etc. Those are not ‘sale’ prices, but everyday prices.
It's like spending one night out on the street to experience what "homelessness" is all about...
I do applaud Gweneth on this venture. She’s the one that advocates blowing smoke up a woman’s vagina at the spa.
How many times have I wondered, with smoke gently curling from my vagina, how is Gweneth doing today?
Seriously. It’s about time that she looks at a real budget. The kind of things that I bought doing Dave Ramsey is what she’s doing now. Good for her.
((puff... whiff... {{{smokey vagina}}}... {{{smoking}}}...)
I do luv me some smokey vagina.
Yeah. That’s an ‘average mom’.
And that doesn't take into account that the chilrun get free breakfast lunch and sometimes dinner at school.
Mostly, actresses have a certain facial bone structure and heads a little bit too large for their bodies. Everything else can be altered one way or another.
My wife has been a professional makeup artist, so she points out how many actresses do basically look alike between eras or between hair colors and styles.
Correction: $200/month is what a person with ZERO income gets by federal law. It goes down from there.
I've read somewhere that chicken used to cost about the same as beef. Is that right or was this source mistaken?
My first thought as well.
She could spend $29 of her own on food, but that doesn’t stop her friends from picking up the tab at a four-star restaurant whenever she feels a bit peckish.
That’s no challenge. My food budget is $100 per person per month. It’s short on beef, shrimp and lobster, but there’s plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables, pork and chicken. I just buy what’s on sale at the local grocery store. And I shop at low-end grocery stores, which tend to have better sale prices.
OMG, her sacrifice, I'm truly humbled by her humanitarian effort..........
Here’s her latest home in Brentwood, Los Angeles
And here’s her last house in Malibu….
If you ask for a take out bag for the remainder, can I have it?......Please?
Every gets a little easier as you go because you don’t have to buy items like ketchup or ramen noodles every week. Not to mention you’ll have some pork chops left over.
She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at Saint Martin’s College, that’s where I caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded
I said in that case I’ll have a rum and coke-cola.
She said fine and in thirty seconds time she said, I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do, I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people like you.
Well what else could I do - I said I’ll see what I can do.
I took her to a supermarket
I don’t know why but I had to start it somewhere, so it started there.
I said pretend you’ve got no money, she just laughed and said oh you’re so funny.
I said yeah? Well I can’t see anyone else smiling in here.
Are you sure you want to live like common people
You want to see whatever common people see
You want to sleep with common people,
you want to sleep with common people like me.
But she didn’t understand, she just smiled and held my hand.
Rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool, pretend you never went to school.
But still you’ll never get it right
‘cos when you’re laid in bed at night watching roaches climb the wall
If you call your Dad he could stop it all.
You’ll never live like common people
You’ll never do what common people do
You’ll never fail like common people
You’ll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw
Because there’s nothing else to do.
Sing along with the common people, sing along and it might just get you thru’
Laugh along with the common people
Laugh along even though they’re laughing at you and the stupid things that you do.
Because you think that poor is cool.
I want to live with common people, I want to live with common people [etc..]
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