Gwyneth Paltrow Admits She Cheated on Her $29 Food Bank Challenge after Four Days
Gwyneth Paltrow Admits She Cheated on Her $29 Food Bank Challenge after Four Days – Did anyone really think Gwyneth Paltrow could feed her family on a $29 budget ?
The actress wrote in her Goop newsletter “Last week, chef (and great man) Mario Batali challenged me to raise awareness and money for the NYC Food Bank by trying to live on $29 dollars for the week (what low income families on SNAP are trying to survive on). Dubious that I could complete the week, I donated to the Food Bank at the outset, and all of us at the goop office began the challenge.” Paltrow then admitted she only lasted 4 days on budget.
Paltrow’s food choices, particularly, limes and avocado, came under a lot of fire. But by stirring a controversy, she did raise awareness for the program and the plight of low-income families.
Paltrow says, “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.”
SNAP or Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program is a federal program that helps low-income families with food stamps that they can exchange for healthy foods, thus supplementing their food budget. The federal program works with state agencies to provide the benefits. Twenty-nine dollars is the amount that the average food-stamp recipient receives via SNAP.
