[TigersEye]

Once Paltrow accepted the challenge, she tweeted a picture of her $29 in food choices — brown rice, black beans, peas, eggs, tortillas, cilantro, limes and fresh vegetables.

Drop the peas and cilantro and use that money to buy some bacon ends or ham hocks. Buy white rice not brown. Stretch the budget further by making your own flour tortillas. If Gwyneth Paltrow ate $29 of all of the above each week she'd probably get fat.

[Farmer Dean]

Aldi has chicken legs/thighs for .89 this week,hams for 1.19 a pound.I think if a person shops smart,29 bucks a week is more than enough.