Gwyneth Paltrow Will Live On A $29 weekly Food Stamp Budget

[HeXen]

^Slew Foot's hardcore bro. I bet he doesn't even wear shoes, hence his name.

 

[paperfist]

$29/person for a week. That's too easy. Our local supermarket sells these party size meals for $10.99 regularly. For a single person, these last a good three to four days each. The rest can be used to purchase side dishes.

That would last me 1.5 days and I'd have to drink water. WTF, I'm never going on food stamps!

 

[Fanatical Meat]

^Slew Foot's hardcore bro. I bet he doesn't even wear shoes, hence his name.

Or is his budget simply blown every single week? I can't believe 4 people $70 a week unless its super repetitive and super unhealthy like Raman noodles every meal.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I'm not sure that (diet in OP) would even work out to 1k/day.

Also, anybody working manual labor like that (to require that calorie intake) probably is earning enough money to buy decent food.

If your TDEE is that high, you probably should lose weight.

FTFY

Not that hard to need that many calories. A 30yo male, 6ft, 170lbs, 18% body fat would have an estimated BMR of 1800 and sedentary TDEE of 2100.

 

[zinfamous]

Yep, but oranges would be better. Two birds with one stone (sustenance and vitamin C).

are you sure? I thought limes were the more concentrated and efficient source for vitamin C. They can also be rather cheap (well, I think the lime cartel is starting to force prices)

I recall that when the US Navy first attempted to adapt the British Navy mandate of serving limes to servicemen, the US instead went with lemons because of price and availability, and assumed the V C was the same.

...well, after a healthy does of scurvy throughout the Navy, they funded a study (or maybe just read one of the many readily-available studies at the time), and learned that lemons haven't nearly as much vitamin C as limes. ...or something like that.

Don't know what this means for oranges...It seems to me that weight/vitamin makes limes the citrus winner. I could be wrong.

 

[Rakehellion]

You need way more nutrients than Vitamin-C to live.

 

[MongGrel]

I'd still like to perform Zucchini experiments with her etc.

 

[CZroe]

Maximum Vitamin C is not the only goal. One orange has a day's Vitamin C in addition the calories and other nutrients. Limes are smaller and less caloric and less useful as a dietary staple. Might as well get Vitamin C tablets if that's all you want out of them.

 

[Puppies04]

Surprised there isn't a sleeve of cigarettes under those veggies.

 

[boomerang]

Why do they call it SNAP? What does that stand for again?

Oh yeah, it's an acronym for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Huh. It's almost like it's not supposed to cover all the food one needs. It's almost like it's meant to assist people with their food needs.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

just make a dish u can put over rice (like curried tofu) and its not that hard

This. Rice + lap cheong.

 

[Fritzo]

Holy crap! She'll waste away to nothing!!!

Oh wait...

 

[zinfamous]

You need way more nutrients than Vitamin-C to live.

not according to Linus Pauling! 😀

But yes, I know. I was just making a joke with my first comment, you see.

 

[LTC8K6]

http://twitchy.com/2015/04/12/gwyne...certainly-well-publicized-but-is-it-accurate/

Gwyneth Paltrow’s SNAP challenge is certainly well publicized, but is it accurate?

No.

 

[futurefields]

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?

lol I am a 160lb man and that would NOT feed me for a week or provide nearly the amount of energy my brain would need to function at work'

 

[CZroe]

lol I am a 160lb man and that would NOT feed me for a week or provide nearly the amount of energy my brain would need to function at work'

It's actually a lot of rice.

 

[disappoint]

Surprised there isn't a sleeve of cigarettes under those veggies.

hahaha:thumbsup:

Cigarettes went out of "style" in the 80s. Today's oral fixation of choice for the lower class is weed.

 

[JEDI]

This. Rice + lap cheong.

Costco FTW!
they carry both.

plus mushrooms by the case
plus peas by the gallon
plus eggs by the gazillion

hell.. brown rice, crack an egg in it while it's cooking, then smother w/soy sauce + pepper

 

[JEDI]

lol I am a 160lb man and that would NOT feed me for a week or provide nearly the amount of energy my brain would need to function at work'

then good thing she's a 95lb actress who's main job requirement is to look good

 

[balloonshark]

Costco FTW!
they carry both.

plus mushrooms by the case
plus peas by the gallon
plus eggs by the gazillion

hell.. brown rice, crack an egg in it while it's cooking, then smother w/soy sauce + pepper

So now the poor need a Costco membership, a freezer, the extra electric for the freezer and a place that actually allows you to have a freezer. It would be nice to buy bulk groceries but it isn't reality for most people.

I know two single people, one that gets social security and the other on social security disability. They both get a little over $800 a month each and they get a little over $30 a month in snap benefits.

 

[mikeford]

Nobody where I shop that uses EBT or food stamps is buying anything but junk food, all the core food milk etc is free at the place for people having babies, Mothers or something like that, little non stores all over SoCal.

The issue is that many poor people are poor due to making poor choices, and for various political reasons EBT etc includes the option of very poor choices.

 

[LTC8K6]

So now the poor need a Costco membership, a freezer, the extra electric for the freezer and a place that actually allows you to have a freezer. It would be nice to buy bulk groceries but it isn't reality for most people.

I know two single people, one that gets social security and the other on social security disability. They both get a little over $800 a month each and they get a little over $30 a month in snap benefits.

Yes, but the $30 is to help out, not to live on.

 

[zinfamous]

lol I am a 160lb man and that would NOT feed me for a week or provide nearly the amount of energy my brain would need to function at work'

dozen eggs, lb of rice, lb of black beans.

really?

I think you missed that in the photo...


not gonna lie...I have kept myself going on roughly 2 eggs/day until dinner. for some weeks.

well, I can. not always. It sucks, but shit. time and all that. throw in rice and delicious black beans, there you go.

 

[zinfamous]

So now the poor need a Costco membership, a freezer, the extra electric for the freezer and a place that actually allows you to have a freezer. It would be nice to buy bulk groceries but it isn't reality for most people.

I know two single people, one that gets social security and the other on social security disability. They both get a little over $800 a month each and they get a little over $30 a month in snap benefits.

pro tip: eggs don't need refrigeration.

a little lesson learned from...the rest of the world, HO!

(that's like, a Lion-O "HO!" I'm not actually calling you a "ho," btw.)

also, butter doesn't need refrigeration. never refrigerate butter. If you are doing that, then you aren't eating real butter.

real butter = food and nutrients. Learn to love the shit out of it. I can't imagine some part of $23/week not going towards, at least, one month's worth of butter ($7 or so should give you 1 month's worth of butter, is what I am saying. If we are talking about sustenance). Talk about real food...

 

[balloonshark]

Yes, but the $30 is to help out, not to live on.

But here is where they get you. They (sometimes) get raises in their social security and then their Snap benefits and HUD benefits adjust and are cut to the point to where it takes all of the raise and then some. There is no accounting for inflation (for the time being) so they get squeezed a little bit every year.