Word. I guess she might have really good nonstick skillets? (Though my pans claim to be nonstick and you still need to use oil or regret it.)

Well, it has to be a freebie because she didn’t buy it and there’s no way I know of to cook eggs without oil unless she boils them all. That’s pretty much my entire logic. You’re right it doesn’t make much sense, but the whole challenge is fake to start with.

I dunno. I was assuming it was just for her, but Madeline commented somewhere saying the actual allowance was $29/week for three people. If Gwyneth can see three people making it for a week on that, she must have already lost all her brain cells to starvation.

Grocery stores always have cilantro in those enormous bunches. I don’t know why; half of it usually turns to slime in my fridge.

She could make a veggie stock with sweet potato peel, corn cob, onion and garlic. A lot of books/websites on vegetarian cooking say to just save veggie scraps and boil them for a long time, and bam, broth. Alternately she could just use pureed sweet potato thinned with water as the base.

... there are also 18 tortillas. I’m pretty sure those count as a basic carb.

See Madeline’s correction. It’s for an individual, not for a family.

I don’t know how the cost of seven limes compares to the cost of a bottle of vinegar, but here in Virginia limes are pretty cheap too.

The rice and bean bags have at least 10 servings in them each; assuming she combines them, that’s 10 meals. Two eggs plus a tortilla is a meal; she can do that six times and still have a dozen tortillas left. That potato is as big as the bag of rice, so it’s a 1-lb. potato; that’s easily a meal, and probably with…

Yeah, all the limes is weird but I bet she uses it as an acid for seasoning — it’s probably cheaper than buying vinegar.

It’s not a feast, but that’s plenty of food for one person for a week because of the rice, beans and tortillas. I don’t know exactly how many servings of rice to a bag that size, but based on personal experience it’s got to be upwards of 10. Ditto dried beans. I think people are getting thrown off because she didn’t…

Those suckers are huge — a baked sweet potato is a meal. Or she could chop it and cook it with the kale for some kind of stir fry/curry/soup thing.

Gwyneth did good — the beans and rice will probably generate 14 (boring, but still) meals for her, and then she has eggs for breakfast and a bunch of limes, cilantro and onion to make the beans and rice less monotonous. I’m not sure how she’s going to use the lettuce without some type of dressing, but whatevs.

To me, the worst of it isn’t so much that he said that shit on his Livejournal, since the newest posts there are five years old and most are significantly older. People change; plenty of us said dumb shit on the Internet in our younger days that is best forgotten. It’s that he deleted the posts and ignored the…

Yeah, I'm happy she's happy with her work but being in a sex scene is different for a girl than for a guy, and knowing that wouldn't make her a prude.

Babies that age love “sharing.” Usually by sticking something covered in germs directly into the mouth of the nearest adult. Why Joe went along with it instead of catching the binky in his hand is a mystery only the Vice President can answer.

That’s actually a really good point, and I hadn’t thought of it. But you’re right — there’s a conflict of interest there.

I don’t even know what I meant, man. I reacted emotionally to this article and was trying to explain my feels and my comment got away from me.

No, you’re right. I based my claim on having read elsewhere that 1 in 5 wasn’t valid, and didn’t read to the end of the Time article before linking. I’ll do better homework next time.

The thing is this.