Gwyneth Paltrow food stamps: $29 gets you at the grocery store
Gwyneth Paltrow, will be taking a break from being a super rich celebrity to live the life of a poor person.
The actress, 42, is the latest out-of-touch wealthy person to publicly chronicle what millions of Americans do every day. The New York City Food Bank is asking celebs to eat a week’s worth of meals for only $29 — the average amount a food stamp recipient gets, reports US.
On Thursday, she posted a photo of her grocery store haul.
“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 tweeted.
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. pic.twitter.com/OZMPA3nxij
— Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) April 9, 2015
Store-brand brown rice, beans, and peas; eggs, tortillas: Pretty normal stuff. Seven limes, an avocado, and fresh bunches of cilantro and kale: Probably less normal for people eating on a severely limited budget. Sounds like it’s taco week at the Paltrow household! (At least she won’t get scurvy?)
She challenged restaurateur Roy Choi to do the challenge next.
We're walking in their shoes to see how far we get. I nominate @RidingShotgunLA to do #FoodBankNYCChallenge & donate: http://t.co/eBEJ0hqEHG
— Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) April 9, 2015
Of course, you could just ask a person who’s on food stamps what they eat in a typical week. There are about 46 million of them in the United States. But where’s the fun in that? We’re hoping to see Paltrow give up and feed the whole family (gasp) instant soup — not that she cares what we think.
The #FoodBankNYCChallenge is meant to raise awareness about hunger and the struggle to live on a budget of just $29 per person for a week.
Really? Nobody that is on food stamps, and has to feed bunch of children, shops like that!!! Well, Gwyneth – you got two days max worth of food there for 29 bucks! Don’t you guys ever get it??? Most people that are on food stamps cannot afford to purchase “healthy” food!!!
i am single with no children, when i was making minimum wage 4 years ago, i qualified for $200.00 a month in food stamps. people with children receive much more than that! i ate like a pig and gained about 20 pounds. as soon as i got a better job making $10.00 an hour, i no longer qualified for food stamps and came back down to an acceptable weight. i don’t know anyone on food stamps who only receives $29 a week unless they also have a job making more than minimum wage. and if they are making more than minimum wage, well then maybe you can afford the food you want and just get off of food stamps completely.
I think you are making up your story. Even if you had no income your maximum food stamps is less than zero dollars, and the more you make the less you get.
Please stop spreading your hate.
And if the moderators think I am making this up, here is a food stamp calculator: http://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Amount-of-Food-Stamps
Sorry, it should say “less than two hundred dollars”. The “zero dollars” was meant to be the amount of income that would qualify for the maximum food stamp amount for a single person.
This is #$%$ and an insult to those of us who have to live for real 24/7 on stamps and other kinds of help this is not even remotely cute/funny /or a challenge STOP this /she a fake and a bad person /I give you not credit for making a stupid chellenge like this/instead give some money to any local Food Bank
How is this an insult to you?