Gwyneth Paltrow lasts 4 days on $29 food stamp budget
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It was a brief but torrid relationship: Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow and a weekly food budget of just $29. It lasted just four days.
Last week, the Goop curator announced she would take up a challenge laid down by chef Mario Batali and the Food Bank For New York City to live on what families on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) would be allowed to spend in a week: $29.
| Paltrow 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.” |
It was not destined to go the distance, however well-intentioned.
“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),” Paltrow wrote on Goop. “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.”
She graded herself a C- on the project, but Internet reaction to her efforts was swift and critical early on. For one thing, after shopping at the store on April 9 and spending a little over $24, she tweeted a photo of her purchases:
While her selections of beans and rice might make sense to the average shopper, fresh vegetables and herbs like cilantro are unlikely to be staples of cash-strapped families, who may be forced to purchase cheaper bulk items like cereals and canned foods.
Then on Wednesday, Jon Favreau posted an Instagram of himself with his “Iron Man” co-star at a $80-a-ticket promotional event for Austin Midnight Dinner that would have broken the budget for anyone truly on food stamps (though perhaps Paltrow did not partake in the food).
But maybe the fault wasn’t all Paltrow’s. She was operating on the low-end of the scale of SNAP funding; according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the average benefit per person is about $125 per month (or $31.25/week). But maximum SNAP benefits in 2015 can go up to $194/person (or $48.50/week). A household of three (Paltrow is a single mom with two children) can receive up to $511/month (or $127.75/week). Those are still far from grand, luxurious sums, but all are higher than $29/week for a single individual.
A representative for Food Bank For NYC explained its $29/week amount in a statement to TODAY.com.
“Because there are so many variables when it comes to determining SNAP allotment, to determine a total ‘food budget’ for the challenge, Food Bank For New York City took the average monthly benefit per person enrolled in the SNAP program over a six month period,” the statement said.
“As we challenge people to live on a SNAP/food stamp budget for one week, this is a way to capture an appropriate number for a broad audience, It is true that SNAP benefits fluctuate based on income, number of children per family, and other factors — but it’s also worth noting that 92 percent of SNAP recipients are either working or aren’t expected to work because they are children, elderly or disabled. Regardless, the challenge has inspired people to think and look at the obstacles SNAP recipients face each day — together, we can work to end hunger.”
In the end, it was a good-hearted effort but not necessarily fully thought through. As Paltrow wrote, “I know hunger doesn’t always touch us all directly — but it does touch us all indirectly. After this week, I am even more grateful that I am able to provide high-quality food for my kids. Let’s all do what we can to make this a basic human right and not a privilege.”
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thank you, Greg, for this article! very important to prove that little money gets little value in form of food. the consequences will be normally diseases starting off with malnutrition related ailments many times, etc.
this is what is intended not just mere carelessness…people as valuable and creative individuals are not important anymore unless as put into the calculator as mere working forces.
also the question arises if all the damage done to countries would mean to get paid for this what they or their families before were unable to do, namely to save those from death who were led to death chambers.
be it fake khazar holocaust jews – most of them – or israelites (few are left, not too many) or any other minorities and even their own flesh and blood, “human” mankind doesn’t care anymore too much! did they ever?
did they ever care or which countries still really care about their own people but imposing laws on their citizens
making life thus less democratic and more difficult…forcing citizens back into a parent and child relationship in which the child’s only duty is to obey its parents?
if the deal of Gwyn is controlled opposition media or not, not relevant. this is an attempt to contemplate on all this
bloodshed and cruelty – many times behind closed doors – and why it is happening. do former nazis from germany as part of the elite want to prove that anybody can be as ignorant, anxious, careless or brutal as they were?
so any contempt against former nazis would be wrong for most?
paltrow, another khazar, is no hero of the people.
she is cute and talented and a good liar, erm, actor.
good morning! yes, you are right! lol. recently, i read Pal was sighted at some seance with a more famous star than her. so she seems to be divided. anyway, her call for provision of basic needs for
everyone such as organic food wasn’t the first call around in terms of providing for basic needs. sounds good to me. but even if those from the elites go for positive things, such things still remain positive. am i mistaken, TLC?
otherwise provision of basic needs for everybody as soon as the world population is taken down to half a billion or less? all the time travelers or religious outlooks into the future talk about an extremely reduced society.
yesterday morning i had an interesting talk to a russian hockey player who is well aware – and obviously not only him from Russia – that the U.S. corporation is playing many games and sanctions imposed on
Russia hurt Europe more than Russia. he seems also to know that europeans underwent some type of brainwashing. i wish they would know it. but what should not be…cannot be!!!!!
by the way, hope everybody doesn’t keep his funds on his bank account anymore, after Cyprus and New Zealand, it was Greece’s turn. only due to missing funds or all planned and arranged ahead? so
governments can test on the populations while flexing their muscles?
they seem to do fine here. STARS
Food should be free…
enjoy a society without money, read “Ubantu Contributionism” by Michael Tellinger
and get moving!