As I predicted, Gwyneth Paltrow’s attempt at taking the Food Stamp Challenge was a huge hoax, as she was caught eating at a swanky restaurant a few days later, then said actually that she had started the challenge much earlier, and then the GOOPster (that’s her brand name) just admitted she couldn’t finish it.
Here was the original start of the challenge:
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. pic.twitter.com/OZMPA3nxij
— Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) April 9, 2015
That was the ninth, and then this appeared two days ago, on the fourteenth – only five days later:
When she was criticized for going to fancy restaurant while supposedly being on the challenge, she said that she had *whoops!* actually started the challenge BEFORE she posted the picture on Twitter, she had just *whoops!* forgot to post it! Riiiiight.
Now it’s being reported that she “celebrated” the end of the challenge at a BBQ:
But then she also says she only lasted four days on the challenge on her blog:
As I suspected, 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). 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. A few takeaways from the week were that vegetarian staples liked dried beans and rice go a long way—and we were able to come up with a few recipes on a super tight budget.
Yeah sure. The whole point of the challenge is to fail it! Ah well, at least she screwed it up in the most impressive way she could.
The only thing more disengenuous and inauthentic than the GOOPster on the Food Stamp Challenge is Hillary Clinton trying to appear like the populist “champion of the every day American”!