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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we she also live in a crappy house, with not enough heat, and make sure she shuts all unnecessary lights off when not in use, and will she sit around worrying about whether to buy more food OR medicines, OR heating oil? Will she sit around worrying about whether her electricity bill will be paid or whether it gets shut off until she pays? Will she forgo being driven around and have to rely on friends who have vehicles to pick her up and bring her places? Will she feel like a loser for having to be such a burden on everyone like really poor people do? Will she go for days without taking a shower because she can’t afford driving up the electric bill via water heater?
She hasn’t got a freakin clue
Beat me to it.. I will be impressed when she has her children live off the 29 dollars a week with her. That’s more like the common woman. And let’s make it money you earned and that’s all you have left after the bills are paid. For someone to have to classify women as common or not, is completely mortifying.
That’s the problem with the ruling class and their ilk.. they are always looking down up on us.
A 20-pound bag of rice, a few bags of various kinds of dried beans, supplemented with some chicken breast ($1.99/pound on sale at my local supermarket), and she's all set.
The problem with "malnourished" kids on food stamps is that Mom never learned to cook, so they live on junk food.
Take a gander at Post 17 by tumblindice
I told you what some paint and putty and designer clothes can do...
FROM THE ARTICLE:
“Gwyneth Paltrow has vowed to live on just $29 worth of food for a week”
GWYNETH PALTROW QUOTE:
“I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.”
AND ANOTHER ONE FROM GWYNETH:
“The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.”
She’s probably thinking how stupid Americans were to give her an Acadamy Award.
People on food stamps also have access to food banks/food pantries. They get staples there, and then use SNAP for what the food pantry didn't have in stock. Like steak.
$29 bucks a week wouldn’t be THAt hard to live on per week. Of course soup can get boring, but I think OOg said the same thing to Mrs. OOg
I knew a welfare recipient who actually had to cut back to 1 pack a day cigarettes just to make ends meet....
It takes a village to house those humongous egos.
Gwyneth Paltrow Quote:
“The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.”
my wife and I don’t spend anywhere near $58 dollars a week on food unless we eat out
I don't see how it's such a big hardship. $29 per person per week is 10 lbs of leg quarters ($7 at 70 cents per pound), 10 lbs of cabbage ($5 at 50 cents per pound), 10 lbs of bananas ($5 at 50 cents a pound), 1 loaf of bread for $1, 1 jar of peanut butter for $2, 1 jar of grape jelly for $2, one 5 lb bag of rice for $3 and $4 for various spices to prepare the food. Cookbooks can be borrowed for free from the library, or bought for a couple of bucks at thrift stores.
$2.49 # for ground chuck...Marsh supermarkets...Indiana
She will delegate that important task to a nanny she hired for the purpose. Meanwhile, she’ll dine on quail eggs, beluga caviar, and imported kelp.
No, they get the full benefit- about $200/mo- even if they have some income.
They get the full benefit if their income is not sufficient to buy food after paying allowed expenses. There’s a complicated formula.
I think we both mean the same thing though.
Exactly
You only go hungry in America for 3 reasons
You’re too young or old to feed yourself and your family is mean
You’re too lazy to go to the store or fast food
You’re too picky
I'll know this dilettante/poseur is really serious when she does without toilet paper for a week.
Leni
“My food budget is $100 per person per month. “
So your food budget is about half of the SNAP benefits for a person who gets the maximum benefit.
Big deal I live on that now
I have survived on ramen noodles
Mix cheap tuna in to splurge
Mix with soy sauce
I have also survived in bagged dry soup
Makes a buttload of soup
Once in 77 I had 19 bucks to last two weeks
Dry soup in a 10 pound bag
Macaroni and beans mostly
And still has money left over for some sticks of Marlboro Reds
How forgettable are the faces of these new actresses! I laugh at how quickly the ingenues go “stale” and their brief shelf lives.
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