What is wrong with this picture?: Food Stamps at Whole Foods

Gwyneth the Waif Starving on Food Stamps

Born out of touch with reality to fund raise and snack out of touch with reality. Destined to starve if ever forced to live in a real world. m/r

Gwyneth Paltrow Fails the SNAP Challenge | The American Spectator

By Emily Zanotti on 4.17.15 

I know you were all waiting with bated breath to find out if Gwyneth finished her food stamp challenge after spending her "weekly allowance" of $29 in SNAP funds on the ingredients for guacamole, some eggs and seven - seriously, seven - limes.

Well, I'm sorry to say that poor Gwyneth, saddled as she is with the burden of caring for all of us little people, was not able to successfully navigate a single week of eating like an ordinary human being. After posting the photo of what she'd used her $29 to purchase (which, I suspect was just the first $29 worth of items on her extensive Whole Foods, delivered-in grocery program) on Thursday, she cheated almost immediately, attending two pricey fundraisers, one of which saw her chowing down on couture food truck cuisine from famed LA chef Roy Choi.

Gwyneth Paltrow got off food stamps, then promptly went back to extravagant meals — including an $85-per-person gourmet barbecue dinner and a Beverly Hills affair hosted by David and Victoria Beckham, in the same night.

Paltrow last week took a charity challenge to spend $29 a week on food, as if she were on food stamps. On Thursday she tweeted, “This is what $29 gets you at the grocery store.” By Tuesday, she was attending an $85-per-person pop-up dinner hosted by “Iron Man” director Jon Favreau, chef Roy Choi, barbecue god Aaron Franklin and others.

That was just the first meal of the two on Tuesday evening. …

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