[2banana]

1. It is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. You are NOT SUPPOSED TO LIVE off of it.

2. To live in $29 for a week? Rice, beans, bread, PB&J and Ramen Soup. I did it in college for 4 years...

[yarddog]

I would fail at that too and I am poor.

[headstamp 2]

Yes, $29 at the gourmet grocery store.

[SamAdams76]

I'm going to live like a spoiled rich person for a week.

Check out what I just bought for the kitchen counter!

[OldMissileer]

How many people see the word “supplemental?” The money is supposed to be in addition to their own cash and not enough to entirely feed them.

[fhayek]

If anyone, anywhere, uses Gwyneth Paltrow for life advice, well then, just maybe they would be qualified for little else than fodder for Soylent Green. Just my opinion, of course.

[mowowie]

The closest that i ever got to supporting Gwyneth was watching her mother act in the movie Futureworld 40 years ago....

[zerosix]

Interesting that these families getting SNAP $$$ also get their children fed three meals M through F at school and can also go to the local food pantries, who are all clambering for more $$$$$.

Note to food pantries: when you give away something for FREE you get more people standing in line for your FREE STUFF!

[twister881]

Hollywood’s Hillary Clinton...born with a silver spoon in her mouth...ignorant, arrogant...clueless.

[bray]

She gave the rest of the crap she bought to the food bank and savored her Kobe beef.

Pray America is waking

[boycott]

Gosh she is getting uglier everyday. She’s not aging well.

[DemforBush]

In the words of Pulp (though the William Shatner cover is a lot better)

You’ll never live like common people
You’ll never do whatever common people do.
You’ll never fail like common people.
You’ll never watch your life slide out of view,
And dance and drink and screw

Because there’s nothing else to do.

Sing along with the common people.
Sing along, and it might just get you thru.’

Laugh along with the common people.

Laugh along, even though they’re laughing at you

And the stupid things that you do
‘Cause you think that poor is *cool*...

[Talisker]

So Gwynnie took 4 days to blow through 29 dollars?

More like 4 minutes for 1 sip of champagne, if you ask me.

[GeronL]

Does the writer really think families are getting $29 a week in food stamps?

[higgmeister]

As a kid in the early Sixties, Mom fixed many a meal of mackerel patties or peanut butter sandwiches. Dad had a huge garden that he plowed with a neighbor's mule. It was the ultimate chore for young siblings in elementary school to hoe weeds on 80 yard rows of vegetables. And no, if you wondered, we didn't get paid anything for work we were born to do. What vegetables we had more of than what we needed, we gave to neighbors and they often did the same for us.

Dad's number one rule of life was to never take welfare from anyone, under any circumstances whatsoever.

I'm not saying my family was poor because we were not. Yet anyone observing us from the outside may have felt otherwise.

[minnesota_bound]

$29 a week per person means a box of Foster Chicken.
6 pieces of flash frozen chicken breasts for $10. For the $19 left I can get vegetables to help make a big pot of chicken soup with 2 chicken breasts that would last 5-7 days along with either 1lbs of hamburger and or fish. Throw in some bread. I would have money left over if not for the big bottle of booze....

Not hard at all unless you want to pay a chef to fly in to cook your meals or roll sushi for you like she has done.

[Ellendra]

I’ve posted elsewhere about the nutrition plan I’m following. I did the calculations, and if I stuck to it strictly with no cheats, and in keeping with my normal appetite, I’d be spending just over $50 a month on groceries.

That’s not taking my garden into account, which is being expanded this year.

I freely admit that most people wouldn’t want to eat like I do, but I’m learning what’s possible.

[Iron Munro]

Mac & Cheese from Save-A-Lot - 3 boxes for $1.00.

Makes 3 servings at 390 calories each.
Mix with 10¢ worth of milk and 10¢ worth of margarine.
Or just plain water and a little vegetable oil if you have it.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

"As I suspected, we only made it through about four days, when I personally broke and had some chicken and fresh vegetables...

As I suspected, her celebrity greatly eclipsed "the cause".

[twister881]

“The Stupid is strong in this one, Lord Vader.”