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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I knew of someone with 7 kids who was getting 1200. Ain’t buying the 29 dollar myth.
She looks like she only eats a celery stick a day anyway, so how hard can it be for her?
Costco has pork loin (about as nice a cut as you can get, and darned near fat-free) for $1.79/lb.
And Walmart usually has 10lbs chicken pieces for $0.50-.60/lb.
It’s not really that hard. I eat on about that much, and I don’t suffer for it.
Breakfast is about 1/3 box cereal a week (about 1.75), a quart of milk (2.50) and a yogurt (7 for about $4.66) total $9.
Lunch is a can of tuna and half a sliced tomato, about $1.50 a day, though I only eat breakfast on weekends, so that’s 7.50. That’s $16.50.
For dinner I alternate ground turkey burger or grilled chicken. That’s about $1 a day. Half a box of frozen mixed veggies is an additional 50 cents. That’s about $10.50.
That’s 27 dollars a week. The rest can buy some stuff 12 grain bread and I’ll have a slice or two with lunch and dinner. On sale $2.50.
$29.50. I drink water, too. No soda or coffee.
Now I eat this was to drop some weight and keep my BP under control. But I’m not starving myself at all.
“Have her do it with her family for a year.”
Why? What is your point, other than sneering at someone successful?
She gets it. She bothered to sit down, address the challenge, and came up with a nice assortment of food for the week at just $29. Obviously she’s capable of continuing it for a year if need be ... but instead, she’s worked her a$$ off, got rich, and can enjoy the fruits of her labors (which she likely gives a generous chunk of to the poor, something most rich do even though they don’t publicize it).
Well with all those limes at least she won’t get scurvy.
Those limes are also a necessary ingredient in a good gin & tonic.
‘a quart of milk (2.50) and a yogurt (7 for about $4.66) total $9.’
You can actually get one natural non-additives yogurt and put a spoon of it into a milk and put your milk into a warm weather for a while. This way you can get any amount of natural organic yogurt at a price of milk.
See, even your nice ballanced budget has a room for improvement!
Aldi’s is our twice a month store and I love it. Really good fresh fruits and vegetables. By shopping there I feed two adults and an always hungry homeschooled teenager for about $175.00 a month—and we eat well. Along with Aldi’s I take advantage of Dollar General’s $5.00 off $25.00 coupon that they offer every week or two. By doing that we spend only about $100.00 or so each month for paper products, laundry soaps, extra coffee and milk, and my hopefully soon-to-be-broken Coca-Cola habit. If we went on food stamps we would be getting $348.00 per month—that’s more than I’m now spending in even the most expensive months of the year!
Exactly. She is a clueless, celebrity elitist. Her cookbook had recipes for meals that cost $300/day to prepare. Not exactly a best seller for the average person.
Limes are really cheap sometimes, like several for a dollar, at our local produce store.
I think they were “organic” limes, compounding the poor choice.
BTW, how do you squawk 8888? (Yes, I get it)
Most liberals have “good intentions” and always with harmful results. Whether it’s just their shitty voting habits or trying to increase EBT card amounts through idiotic stunts like this.
I took the costs from my recent grocery receipts and my total of her purchases came to only $12.73. That isn't half of the $29. Either she had the groceries delivered from Rodeo Dr. and included a tip or she LIED. That would have left $16.27 to buy a $1.47/lb ham shank, $1/lb chicken and more foods real people eat.
Of course, she conveniently forgot to address the WIC foods. Also, that kids eat breakfast, lunch and sometimes dinner FREE! at school so their $29 dollars is included in the total family SNAP.
Ah, see, and I posted ham at $1.47 and chicken at $1. Your $29 would go even further. I still say she lied that that was as far as her $29 would stretch. See my post up thread with my total of her purchases being $12.73.
No, she did not. Price out her purchases at your local grocery store. Guaranteed your total would be less than half of that $29.
Limes here last week were about 8/$1.
I doubt it. In any case I was referring to choices from a nutritional standpoint.
I’ve posted before that I can make five 6-7” homemade Schlotzsky sandwiches (homemade sourdough bun and the fixin’s) for the price of one restaurant bought. That would come right about that $6.40 SNAP. You’d gain weight eating that much a day.
Today, I had a glass of milk for breakfast and semi-homemade enchiladas for lunch and dinner so would have change left from that %6.40.
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