I think I read she lasted 4 days. It was more about yielding to temptation that necessity?
Define "necessity". She would have had zero health consequences from eating only what she bought(as poor as it was). It was merely lack of self control.
Just read an news report about Paltrow and then came here to find this thread.
Just pitiful. She gives the 1% a bad name.
Define "necessity". She would have had zero health consequences from eating only what she bought(as poor as it was). It was merely lack of self control.
Her purse costs 3500 dollars.
Just her purse.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/10/gwyneth-paltrow-food-stamp_n_7043010.html
THose on Food stamps get $29/person per week.
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.
Participants can use coupons, but they cannot use food that was already in their homes or food given to them by others.
This is what she bought:
The haul included limes, cilantro, corn, whole grain brown rice and eggs.
limes? Cilantro?
And she had a team helping her come up with recipes, and still failed.
With a challenge like that, I'm not sure what you're supposed to do about things like cooking oils, spices or condiments. If you were doing a year or even three months, it wouldn't be a big deal, but you can't really buy anything at all pricey that might last you a couple of months.
The whole point of a liberal, rich public figure conducting a hokey experiment like this is to "prove" how difficult it is. So by failing, she succeeds.
You don't need oil and a majority of condiments.
Why the hell do you think you need luxuries on a budget?
I just bought a pork shoulder for $10 and 5lbs of chicken for $4. I'm nailing this challenge without even trying.
http://twitchy.com/2015/04/17/c-for...ouples-from-snap-challenge-after-only-4-days/
C- for effort! Gwyneth Paltrow consciously uncouples from SNAP challenge after only 4 days
C-?! That's more like get GTFO out of my school! You're a distraction to the students that came here to learn!
The more I think about it, the more irritated I get. It's really a shameful display. It's like volunteering to read a kid's book to a school while on TV, and revealing you're illiterate while the cameras are running. I wonder if she realizes what trivial piece of fluff she is? Probably not. I bet she has the self-awareness of a houseplant...
If true then she could have eaten for at least a day or two off the money she spent on it.
Just reading the news can really depress a person. There are the 1% (or less) and everyone else. The elitists just show you how bad our society/species can sink. That, and Britt McHenry might get you a coffee at Paltrow's fav coffee shop.
No, you're just buying cheap meat.
You don't need oil and a majority of condiments.
Why the hell do you think you need luxuries on a budget?
C-?! That's more like get GTFO out of my school! You're a distraction to the students that came here to learn!
The more I think about it, the more irritated I get. It's really a shameful display. It's like volunteering to read a kid's book to a school while on TV, and revealing you're illiterate while the cameras are running. I wonder if she realizes what trivial piece of fluff she is? Probably not. I bet she has the self-awareness of a houseplant...
No, you're just buying cheap meat.
What's wrong with pork shoulder and a chicken? (I'm assuming on this one, but $4 for 5 lbs makes me think he just bought a whole chicken)
The funny thing is, some of the 'cheap' meats aren't bad cuts, but just time consuming to make anything out of. A pork butt, smoked and slow-cooked, is awesome and super cheap.
Agreed yet she commands a high salary because we, the common folk, are willing to expend our meager earnings to watch the schlock that Hollywood craps out each year.
Sure but of those friends with $100k+ debt aren't they all doctors and lawyers? That's been my experience. I think the bigger issue is liberal arts schools charging $20k a semester with 30% graduation rates and abysmal job placement staying stayistics. So we're left with 70% of their students with $40k in debt for no degree. I hope the other 30% got full rides.