[FOXNEWS] Gwyneth Paltrow...Hollywood interchangeable blonde and Eva Braun taste-alike, who's convinced herself that it would be
wonderfulif Obama were given
all the power that he needs. She was married to a guitar player in a rock band, but now she's becoming long in the tooth so he's moved on to somebody else...
is less like the average person than she would like you to think.
After Chef Mario Batali challenged the actress to feed her family for a week on a $29 budget -- what low income families on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) receive -- Paltrow admitted in her Goop newsletter that she failed.
"As I suspected, we only made it through about four days, when I personally broke and had some chicken and fresh vegetables (and in full transparency, half a bag of black licorice)," she confessed. "My perspective has been forever altered by how difficult it was to eat wholesome, nutritious food on that budget, even for just a few days--a challenge that 47 million Americans face every day, week, and year."
Paltrow shared a picture of the groceries she purchased with the $29.
Her list included things like cilantro, limes and avocados -- items many people on Twitter pointed out were not smart buys.
| Eggs, store brand frozen vegetables, a basic multivitamin, baked or refried beans on toast, occasionally fresh meat from the marked-down-because-almost-expired bin at the end of the display, ditto overripe fruits and vegetables, powdered milk and powdered mashed potatoes, store brand boxed mac'n'cheese -- and all of them bought on sale if possible. Surviving poverty takes a lot of time, effort, and self control. |