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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Oh not again....
The ONLY good role she was in is the movie Seven, and that’s only because in the end her head is in the box.
I think SNAP tops out at $180 each, based on an online calculator I looked up during a discussion about welfare bennies. But my budget is $100 each, including snacks, ice cream, milk and so on. But I seldom buy things that aren't on sale, so my prices are actually lower than in the example I quoted. And I go to dollar stores for things that are near or just past expiration. People who are eligible for food stamps can also go to food pantries, where they can get significant amounts of food to supplement their Federal bennies.
Good for her. Dollar Tree is the best of the lot, particularly in our area and ours has frozen foods, too. Some of their stuff is not really the best, like their coffee, but they are stocking more things made in the USA. I even buy my toothpaste, shampoo and some cleaning products there.
For $40 you can get 25 lbs of pinto beans and 50 pounds of rice at Costco. That’ll easily feed one person for over two months, maybe three.
Righto!
One of the more hilarious memes of recent years is the healthy, low0fat Mexican diet.
We used to eat regularly with a recent Mexican immigrant family in Billings. Only time I’ve ever seen anybody with a 5 gallon tub of lard on the floor next to the stove.
My wife volunteers at a food bank. There’s no means testing. They give food to anybody who shows up.
Load of horse manure! Families receive a lot more than $29.00 per week per person. Another liberal elitist, I want her to get out in a public forum and explain to Black Americans why she is for illegal immigration which cuts into the money to assist struggling American and the importation of cheap labor to take jobs away from Americans.
$29 a week? Hell, when I was in college I thought I was living pretty damn high on $25 a week.
That's just a fact of life. Peasant cooking is bad for you unless you get barely enough to survive.
"Eat, eat, hermanita," she says. "Eres tan delgada!"
When my best friend was pregnant with her first baby in the ‘70s, we ate lunch every day at the Mexican “roach coach”, Bennie’s, in Anchorage, Alaska. And some dinners. When the ultra-healthy kid was born, the doctor asked, “What the heck have you been eating?!” Pretty funny.
I’m not on food stamps but have been doing this as a hobby and for savings for a long time. Trying to make a technology of it, so to speak.
Ramen noodles, Hamburger Helper—a little expensive and not so good for us. Make noodles and bread at home. Practice makes perfect. It gets much easier and faster after a while. And rice. Lots of rice.
About ten years ago, $3 per person per day (not counting paper, soaps, etc.) was good enough for a varied, healthy diet allowing for sufficient exercise. Most who discuss the food topic neglect exercise and the need for enough nutrients. Now, that’s quite a bit more difficult. Plenty of sleep is also necessary.
One who eats little and runs far can encounter problems like stress fractures (see Army). Mean dogs outside of pens should be outlawed or simply exterminated. They shouldn’t lay in wait for those who try to exercise or otherwise walk.
It’s amazing, really. A few years ago, the total food stamp budget was about $80 billion for a year. After cuts to fund increases in public school teacher pay and other salaries, SNAP benefits were $74.1 billion in fiscal year 2014 for 46.5 million Americans. Quite a chunk of the budget goes to states, government employees, administrators, contractors, etc.
Total U.S. Budget, 2014 expenditures: $3.5 trillion
Debt $18.23 trillion
The federal debt is worse than you think (210 Trillion)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3277615/posts
The food program won’t be shut down, and more cuts against it won’t make much difference. We need layoffs of regulators in federal, state and local levels of government and regulatory office closings at local levels (planning, building in rural areas, etc.), cuts in public education, policies for more new defense contractor competition and increases in defense. ...and many more spending cuts.
Fat and protein are important for babies’ development, before and after birth. Skinny mothers, not so important.
In “Once Upon a Time in China and America” with Jet Li, he and another Chinese man were in the old American West, eating beans next to a camp fire. They suffered, farted much, complained and realized the insanity of western movie food. The evacuation effort is worse (see thick, orange-brown paste, little visual there).
I’m not on food stamps, but I eat a lot of rice and bread with some vegetables, a little meat and much hot stuff. Pinto beans, not very often.
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Bingo! These fools donate “time”, etc. How may poor can go to bed at night with a stomach full of time. She should lead by example, by donating at least one million dollars of her own money to something!
Her second meal of Ramen will be the end of that.
Plus that nasally, whiny voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
She has absolutely no figure
Except if you consider straight lines figures.
With her voice, the moment she starts talking, I want to start hitting someone in the head with an iron frying pan. Doesn't matter whether it's her or me, just to make the horrible racket stop.
Same sort of pretentious, phony PR stunt.
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I have a 66 yr old cousin whose husband cheated on her and left her flat broke. She qualifies for food stamps now. She told me she’s never ate better than she is now. Of course up til this point she always had to pay for her own food.
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