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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Really?
And how can she relate to someone living on a fixed income?
Its not as easy as it sounds.
Probably needs to drop that last 10 lbs for a movie
Nobody believes she will do that.
How much of her own money has she donated?
$29 worth of food.
$2900 worth of cocaine.
In all honesty, the kale and treebark tofo she normally eats is not that expensive.
Incredibly asinine
It ain’t hard.
A couple loaves of bread and a 24 pack of Ramen will do. It ain’t gourmet but it will do.
She is strictly organic and paleo. She can buy a carrot for that much.
I don’t think the “common woman” lives on $29 of food a week
She plans on going to her moms house for dinner;) Blythe Danner.
The $29 per person per week average is not meant to be the full amount to survive on. It is the average value so it is for someone making money which they have in addition to food stamps. A better comparison would be for the full ride 100% amount.
People on food stamps buy steaks and lobster - most don’t even need the extra handout but take it. Like the recent guy said when taking food stamps and didn’t need it, who am I to judge this system?
As long as we are performing meaningless gestures.
Given how skinny she is I think that might be an increase in her budget.
Um,um, um.
Ramen sandwiches.
Here is Paltrow's home in Los Angeles; pretty darn big carbon footprint.
Here is her home in London:
Again, nice place. I am betting I live on less than these people live on...so I won't feel bad if I go out to eat and have a $30 steak for dinner.
source for pics: virtualglobetrotting.com [some celebs have begun blurring out their mansions on this site, so they can hide their extravagance and hypocrisy]
I cannot understand what anyone sees in this Hollywood airhead.
Without $10,000 worth of makeup and clothes and the right photographer she is a hawg.
FReeper Grania and I had a $32/week food contest to show that it can be done. We both did very well indeed, balanced diets with very different kinds of food preferences.
She can go to Taco Bell and get bean burritos for $1.29 each. They are good for you. I should do that myself and lose a few pounds.
So a woman born with a silver spoon in her mouth is goignt o show us common folk how to eat on 29 bucks a week. Now thats rich! I lived in foster homes growing up in the early 1960s. At one home in Phoenix,AZ. we had to stay in the fenced in back yard all day. The two fat nasty women would bring out beans and corn bread once a day around 3:clock in the afternoon. One day a kid about 10 years old took two pieces of cornbread. He got the crap smacked out of him right there. And this is just one story. One day me and my brothers just walked out the front door. About an hour later the cops picked us up.
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