This shit wouldn't have carried you in 1953!

$113.00 monthly.

It is rough to say the least.

The politicians who keep cutting food stamp benefits

are evil and cruel.

She's a bit of a loony toon when it comes to these things, i.e., diet and health, etc.

Why anybody would listen to her, I have no idea. With regards to such matters, she has a mind untroubled by thought.

Don't try this at home.

Followed immediately by her expose on douche.

Of course, we here at DU know all about douche.

I forgot about that!

Get it?

I am glad to oblige those who share my affliction.




Peace, my friend.

One of the funniest articles last year was over at Jezebel, someone attempting to eat according to her diet plan: http://jezebel.com/everything-i-fucked-up-while-trying-to-eat-like-gwyneth-1596037126

She does give props to some of it, but I suspect that was because the best seasoning for any food is hunger.

One of the least likely people to cope on a poverty diet, though, isn't Paltrow. It's the yuppie of either sex who orders takeout from the office every night and picks it up on the way home, relying on breakfast out and lunch out.

The Colorado Springs Independent is basically a hipster rag available for free at the front door of a lot of businesses.

One of these guys writes restaurant reviews. He calls bites of food things like "succulent rock stars" and once went off on a rant about the amount of truffle oil and Parmesan on the fries he bought from a food truck.

Gwyneth would look like Ghandi compared to a hipster trying to cope on food stamps.

Well, they're a smaller niche but yeah, after a month of a food stamp allotment, they'd be angry at the world and everybody in it but especially at poor people because they ran out of money a week or more before they ran out of month.

The Jezebel article put a 3 day Gwyneth diet grocery bill at $300, and that was last year.

Back then most of the folks seemed to be evangelical rapture-ready types. Are they still there? How do they mesh with the hipsters?

When I first got there, my brother in law dropped me off downtown (Platte & Tejon) and I pretty much walked the entire downtown area prospecting for Web Design clients.

As you walk toward the Library (Penrose Library, on Cascade), you see that the homeless / "street people" population has skyrocketed. The Library itself is pretty much "base camp." There is a sign on the door that says "No food or large backpacks" and you will see large backpacks EVERYWHERE, and the day I went in and sat for a while with a book, some guy sat down with one of these large backpacks and a McDonald's bag and proceeded to spread out his drink, fries, and McNuggets directly under a "No food in the Library" sign. As I was on my walk one woman...very politely...asked me if I had any spare change. I was flat broke, the reason my brother in law dropped me off is I didn't have money to feed the meters (for those unfamilar with Colorado Springs, parking meters are ALL OVER the downtown area, INCLUDING the Library parking lot).

On the other hand, I saw Facebook reports on the local TV station's pages about aggressive panhandling becoming an increasing problem in the downtown area. One such person followed a woman down the street, insulting her with profanities, and she eventually went into one of the local businesses and asked them to call the cops.

After doing this for several random and not consecutive days, I realized that white guys with dreadlocks and rainbow knit rasta caps sitting on the street corners with shitty electric guitars singing and playing shitty off-key versions of Bob Dylan and Dead songs with a cup or open guitar case in front of them is not an "unusual occurrence."

On the first day, one guy WAS standing on a concrete riser across from U.S. Bank and he WAS preaching the holy-roller gospel. His efforts were met with a mix of "preach it brother" and "fuck off."

I also want to be very clear, because I see things taken out of context all the time on DU...this is not intended as an indictment of homeless people. I help people whenever I can, and if I can't, I make sure they know where they can get help. The people I am talking about in the downtown area are hustlers and sharks, people who have made a professional career out of being a confrontational asshole. There are days when you walk into downtown Colorado Springs and it feels like you've wandered into a crack house.

So I left. For that and other reasons. It was not my dance at all.

So I guess she succeeded in getting some publicity for the issue.. Which is the whole point, so KUDOS to Gwyneth.
People who make fun of people just for where they are on their journey? 👎

Until she starts flapping her gums about toxins, and coffee enemas, and steamed vaginas, and every other bit of woo-woo wackaloon newage crap she spews ("newage" == new age, only pronounced as to rhyme with sewage, which it most closely resembles).

Basically, Gweneth is an uneducated idiot.

I get tired of celebritainmentizing poverty. How about she do something real for folks who are struggling?

Which is the whole point for Gwyneth, Kim Kardashian and all of the other narcissistic twits who take part in public challenges.

If your journey leads you to a spa to get your vagina steamed then Wunderbar!

When you use your "lifestyle" blog to coo about it and advise others to do the same, you deserve every guffaw directed at you.

Along with the inevitable lawsuits brought by angry women who were stupid enough to listen to you.

and have had to get really creative in order to keep our stomachs from hurting while keeping our strength up and our health intact. If she stopped in 3 days, she just looked like an entitled rich person who didn't care to try.

But yes, publicity about how Spartan and nasty a food stamp diet can be is always welcome.

Someone put the calorie count per day on what she bought at just over 800 calories. Not even someone as small as she is should be eating that little amount. The fact she ate a half bag of licorice sounds like a testament to how hungry she was on so few calories, if she had been rationing in an attempt to finish out the week.

She must have stocked up on Bombay Sapphire and tonic water ahead of time.

Now the eggs I can support. But I would have bought peanut butter, jelly (or honey) and Raman noodles. I buy my jasmine rice by the ten pound bag. (Lasts months.) And yes, beans are an important part of my food stamp diet, too. I always have bread for PB&J sandwiches, or tuna.

Pork is cheap, so I always have chops in the freezer, when it is on sale. Living alone, fresh veggies don't last long enough for me. But I eat quite well on food stamps because I am very frugal.

Gweneth should have shopped someplace else other than Beverley Hills, or wherever she bought that stuff. She paid too much.

and I don't consider my self deprived of anything

I eat chicken , rice , lettuce , sometimes pork , drink water , buy cheap coffee and drink it black no sugar , that's how I like it anyways

If I see a sale at price chopper on fruit I'll buy a few apples also

Batali could have shown her how to make that in ten minutes with money left over LOL

I eat 2 meals a day. 2 bucks for a dozen eggs.

A dozen eggs plus carrots? That sux.

No soda or milk just buy food

Walmart Perdue value pack chicken thighs are $7.00 a pack of 9

Just as long as you have flour to bread them, and a little oil to fry them in. Plus make some home made gravy to smother the rice. Add some green beans -- I buy canned -- and eat like royalty.

Love thighs!

Indeed. Cheap.

I buy my meat on sale. My freezer is fairly well stocked.

Walmart or Price Chopper in my town is always good for that.
Another thing I always look for is if it hasn't sold and it's the last day before they pull
the meat they will price it 2 to 3 dollars off so a pack of $7 chicken thighs for 4 or 5 bucks.

There's nothing wrong with them at all just freeze it when you get home.


My self I just like to bake them , salt pepper and a little oregano and I cook the rice in some chicken broth