Gwyneth Paltrow Fails Her Food Stamp Challenge After Day 4
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The actress admitted that she gave up on the Food Bank NYC challenge after only four days, saying, 'I would give myself a C-.'

AceShowbiz - Gwyneth Paltrow left the $29 food stamp challenge she joined on Thursday, April 9. According to a newsletter she posted on her Goop website on Thursday, April 16, she gave up on the challenge after only four days and helped herself to chicken, fresh vegetables an a bag of black licorice.

"Last week, chef (and great man) Mario Batali challenged me to raise awareness and money for the Food Bank For New York City by trying to live on $29 dollars for the week (what low income families on SNAP are trying to survive on)," Paltrow starts the story from the beginning. "Dubious that I could complete the week, I donate to the Food Bank at the outset, and all of us at the goop office began the challenge."

She continues writing, "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)."

She admits that she learns something from the challenge. "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," so she writes.

She adds, "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."

She then gives herself a C minus due to the failure. "After trying to complete this challenge (I would give myself a C-), I am even more outraged that there is still not equal pay in the workplace," so she writes. "Sorry to go on a tangent, but many hardworking mothers are being asked to do the impossible: Feed their families on a budget which can only support food businesses that provide low-quality food."

She believes all women should be paid an equal wage so their families can afford real food. "The food system in our beautiful country needs to be subjected to a heavy revision - it is a cyclical problem, with repercussions that we all feel," so she explains. "I'm not suggesting everyone eat organic food from some high horse in the sky. I'm saying everyone should be able to afford fresh, real food. And if women were paid an equal wage, families might have more of a choice in the grocery aisles, not to mention in the rest of their lives."

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