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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No, she will never know what its like to be poor.
She has the comfort to know that her “experiment” will soon be over.
What she is doing is like saying is that she is going to take time away from her loved one so that she will know what its like that loved one to die.
That’s like, what? Three Starbuck’s coffees?
Ok.
What a nitwit! It's $29 PER PERSON, so, no, Gwynnie. FAMILIES don't have to live on that amount of food -- only one person.
Poor Mexicans don’t buy a handful of pricy ingredients. They buy enough rice, masa, lard, beans, and chickens to last a month. And then they produce food that tastes wonderful and kills you quick!
Yes.
A poor person who only buys their food with food stamps gets about $200/mo.
The absolute income limit to disqualify one person for any food stamps is about $1200/mo in Virginia.
The benefit is VERY generous.
Yea, right, sure. When pigs fly.
I guess it was a smart move stockpiling all the fat from her liposuctions ...
Is the purpose of this challenge to show that $29 is plenty to survive on for a week and that food stamps need to be limited to that amount?
Remember, this is the same preening, pretentious ass who said that she’d rather “smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin.”
$29? Total BS.
Go to any Walmart on the 1st and watch all the OVERFLOWING shopping carts make their way to the checkout, paid with EBT...
http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/how-much-could-i-receive
Where does the $29 figure come from? Isn’t CA SNAP something like $150/month per person?
It can be done easily if for just one person, even a few people. What is not mentioned are overhead charges of transportation, who’s paying the rent and in what portions,
electricity, wifi, gym memberships, astrologer home visits, hair salons, mani/pedicures and other bare necessities of life.
I went shopping with a single mother for a Mother’s Day picnic a few years ago. She was using a SNAP card to make the purchases at Wal*Mart and her shopping cart contents had little (no) regard for value, nutritional, quality or how long the food would last. It was all impulse buying like she was on a shopping spree and off her A.D.D. meds.
ok lets see her live in a studio apartment with a folding bed, and roaches...
People like her have egos bigger then their houses..
Notice how it never enters her vapid, empty head that these people could work, even part time, to earn money to supplement their food budget.
Hawg?
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