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Gwyneth Paltrow Vows To Live On $29 Worth Of Food Per Week To Raise Awareness For Charity
UK Daily Mail ^ | : 15:04 EST, 10 April 2015 | By CHARLIE LANKSTON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bubblehead; goop; gwynethpaltrow; hypocrite; stfu; twitter
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To: TomGuy

We have a boat in Ventura and I go by myself a lot. Sometimes I spend a week or more there. I stop at the 99c Only store and buy my groceries. I then stop at a fruit stand and buy a few things. I usually spend around $20 and bring groceries home with me. It’s not steaks but I have plenty and fresh veggies.


141 posted on 04/10/2015 6:05:22 PM PDT by sheana
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To: mountn man
Plus that nasally, whiny voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard.

You got that right!


142 posted on 04/10/2015 6:29:59 PM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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To: tumblindice

That ain’t no Pepper Potts!


143 posted on 04/10/2015 6:31:25 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: drewh

Sounds like she’s going on a diet


144 posted on 04/10/2015 8:04:23 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: drewh

Sounds like she’s going on a diet


145 posted on 04/10/2015 8:05:39 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: Tax-chick

:-) Large Christian homeschool families could teach everyone how to live on a budget. I know so many, and they have their meal planning down to a science. And they eat healthful food.

My homeschool brood is not as large, but teenage boys get very hungry. I have the food budget down to a science, too. There have been weeks when I had $29 total to feed all four of us. (Not an exaggeration.) It’s amazing how creative your meal planning becomes when you’re desperate. Lots of looking for bargains and baking from scratch. Now I’ve spoiled them with all the baking from scratch, though. lol


146 posted on 04/10/2015 8:32:46 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Sherman Logan; PapaBear3625
My wife volunteers at a food bank. There’s no means testing. They give food to anybody who shows up.

Yep. I know people who volunteer at a Catholic food bank. They said people pull up in SUVs or minivans, and they just pack the food into the vans and drive away. No one questions them.

147 posted on 04/10/2015 8:44:49 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Safetgiver

Like to see that Librocrite live on 250K per year. She couldn’t make it two months.


148 posted on 04/10/2015 9:04:55 PM PDT by bray (Cruz to the WH)
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To: drewh

no Pepper, find somthing more worthwhile


149 posted on 04/10/2015 9:16:25 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: sparklite2

Agreed


150 posted on 04/10/2015 9:17:04 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: Tired of Taxes

After my original post I called the wife, who’s out of town at the moment.

Turns out lots of food banks get state or federal money, and so they have paperwork, means-testing, etc.

But the one she’s with are run by a small church and don’t have any such nonsense.


151 posted on 04/11/2015 5:08:38 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: mrsmith
“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.

For a family of four, the max benefit would be about $200/week. I feed my middle-class family well, and I doubt I spend much more than that on food, on average. Of course, I buy lots of fresh produce, chicken, meat, and seafood, and we cook it, rather than buying a lot of pre-packaged microwavable crap.

152 posted on 04/11/2015 5:48:03 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: tumblindice

Who in the world ever considered this skank ‘hot’?


153 posted on 04/11/2015 6:05:57 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: PapaBear3625
You've hit it spot on.

Cooking... real cooking like our grandmothers did... is far, far cheaper than ready-to-eat meals. Also, a lot of money can be saved simply by avoiding waste. Our grandmothers didn't throw a lot of food out. At least mine didn't.

My wife does regularly buy one ready-to-eat thing, though. She gets a rotisserie chicken from Costco. Day one, she has the legs and I have some breast meat. Day two, she picks the chicken clean and makes chicken tacos. Day three, the carcass goes in a stock pot and she makes vegetable soup.

I'm pretty sure that chicken is less than $5, and she gets at least six meals out of it. Good meals, too, and I would classify a rotisserie chicken as "convenience food."

When you factor in things to round it out... rice, beans, fresh vegetables... it's still a healthy stretch of eating on not much money.

154 posted on 04/11/2015 6:43:37 AM PDT by TontoKowalski
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To: drewh

VA EBT for one adult and one child you get $367 per month.


155 posted on 04/11/2015 8:57:26 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: tumblindice
she sure doesn't look like much without the warpaint...


156 posted on 04/11/2015 9:42:27 AM PDT by drewh
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To: Sherman Logan

That explains it - private charities. The food banks I was talking about are run by Catholic churches.

Also, there are other food “ministries” I know about, and no one is questioned when they take the food because they’re run by churches, too.


157 posted on 04/12/2015 9:39:16 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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