Posted on 04/12/2015 5:48:53 PM PDT by Paid_Russian_Troll
Gwyneth Paltrow is slashing her food budget to raise awareness about hunger. But sometimes even the best intentions are met with criticism, eye rolls and sarcasm.
Last week, the Oscar winner announced that she had accepted The Food Bank for New York City challenge to live on food stamps for one week, with a grocery budget of $29 or about $1.38 per meal.
According to the #FoodBankNYCChallenge, needy families are given $29 per person as part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, after Congress cut food stamps twice since 2013.
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.
But apparently the tweet left a bad taste, with many Twitter users eating the “Iron Man” star alive.
“Vast difference living on food stamps for 1 week knowing you’ve a safety net of millions, and that being your life every day Gwyneth Paltrow,” tweeted one person.
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That’s actually why I posted it.
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.
Sound like she did a good thing: took up the challenge of eating on that little a week, making sensible choices, and showing that it can be done. Having millions of $$$ behind her is irrelevant: whatever the circumstances, it’s a liveable amount - which should be lauded by the Left who demand a living wage (but instead go batshit crazy about getting what they demand).
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.
Yes,exactly true.
“I’m sure she had good intentions.
Agreed. And I can’t see where she did anyone any harm here.”
She didn’t do anyone any harm. She did, however, expose the childish envy and feeling of entitlement of most leftists. Of course in the convoluted and self-righteous thinking of most of the internet snarkasauruses who spend their time twittering with other folks with their third grade dirtbombs, she’s of course projecting her white privilege. Because she’s conducting a social-science experiment by mocking those at a lower plane of economic success, indeed, at a near-survival level. Those at that level cannot perfrom social-science experiments, they are too busy surviving in their auto-righteous modes.
They can eat dogturds for all I care. That goes for Gwyneth, too.
Liberal symbolism over substance.
The path to liberalism is paved with good intentions that accomplish nothing... just like hashtagging ...
#IFeltYourPainSoIAamBetterThanEveryoneElseAndThinkIActuallyMakeADifference
It’s easy to get by on cheap and free food, until everyone is trying to do it. Then people start to die.
“Agreed. And I can’t see where she did anyone any harm here.”
Have her do it with her family for a year.
You are of course right, but I want you to look at it from different angle. If indeed $29 is enough to eat for a week, it mean that the ‘starving’ minimal wage protestors are liars.
I just checked my freezer and the ham shanks were $2.99 lb.
WTH??? I was robbed!!!
Anyway, after viewing the pic of her groceries I would also recommend skipping the ear of corn and the avocado. The former is not worth the money and the second is good but pricey. She also bought seven limes. I’d make it three and put that savings on something else.
All in all she did pretty good for her first hobo rodeo.
Then again maybe she started out poor.
The problem, her choices weren’t particularly nutritious. And she bought SEVEN limes, at more than $1 apiece. Those are practically “empty”, aside from vitamin C.
Unfortunately, your observations are spot-on: I live in TX, and worked at a grocery store, for a time.
One of my friends in HS was (is) on food stamps; I once had the poor fortune of having to bag THREE FULL cart-loads of food that she bought. 80-90% of the total cost was covered by food-stamps. Most of it was indeed processed food.
The kicker: She babysits at home, while her mother runs a small consignment shop not far from where I live. Owns a house, SUV, and a car, and probably has FIVE telephone lines between them, and the latest smart-phones. (From Southwestern Bell Mobile, no less) Mother has five kids, none of them share a surname but for the two youngest.
By now, I don't even need to tell you that they are descendants of Obama.
And I can't find steady employment. Imagine that.
Looks like I'm white, until election season rolls around, when the far-left "Hispanic" identity groups pander to us. (TBH: I used to look as pale as Rafa' Cruz Jr; working at the grocery store changed all that: I pushed carts a lot during the summer)
(I started a job last month, only to be laid off two weeks later; those that remained but for Affirmative Action: they weren't even the best workers!)
We did the same thing at Stanford where the business majors were “required” to undergo this experience and write your paper about it. Yes, we spent 2 nights at a homeless shelter pretending to be poor. Lib professor was adamant he could turn us into liberals...
The experiment backfired. My classmates and I were in agreement: the homeless dudes PREFERRED to have free stuff from the gubmint’ and didn’t make an effort to work. Seriously. These were their words. They get free medical, dental from other pre-med and dental majors working there for their internships.
TWO, Once the experiment was over, one of my classmates was asked by the lib prof ‘what did you learn from this experience?” My classmate answered “I’ll work my ass off and get rich so I don’t end up in that place.”
$29 per week is the AVERAGE amount of Food Stamps collected.
It is adjusted according to your income and your expenses.
In Washington state, a single person with no income gets $194 per month.
That’s $44.77 per week, or, $6.40 per day.
If someone has access to a refrigerator and a place to cook food, you can gain weight on $6.40 per day - and that does not include food from free kitchens and food banks.
In Washington state, a single person is actually eligible for $16 per month in Food Stamps if his annual gross income is below $23,340.
That equals a full time job at $11.22 per hour.
And, just to keep all this in perspective, people living in Seattle’s poorest neighborhoods are 4 to 8 times more likely to be obese than people living in Seattle’s wealthiest neighborhoods.
Aldi has deals on selected meats.They just had spiral cut hams for 1.99 a pound.We bought one and it was amazingly good.About once a month they have boneless/skinless chicken breasts for 1.89.We save a LOT of money shopping there.
Maybe she wanted to both prove you could make healthier choices with little money and being willing to go back to work should also inspire the takes.
As a lefty she probably didn’t want it to be understood this way, but most decent people should have had misunderstood her the way you did. Welcome to the club!
Safeway has drumsticks, thighs or whole roaster chickens on sale for $1.49 lb. this week. Four of those seven limes would cover the cost of two pounds of chicken.
Make some chicken on rice w/sauteed bokchoy and green onions seasoned w/lime w/side of black beans. Call it General Paltrow’s Chicken! lol
Dang! I better go make dinner.
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