Besides scrambled eggs and maybe corn on the cob, there’s not really anything for the kids to make at home while their parents are at work, unless they’re precocious chefs. There is no string cheese for them for when they get home from school. There are no canned soups or frozen entrees for when their mother is called in for an extra shift and comes home exhausted — nothing that can be prepared in less than half an hour, at the most. Those beans would have to soak for half a day before cooking. Even the lettuce would have to be washed — if there is a grocery store nearby that carries fresh lettuce, which is unlikely in many urban American neighborhoods.

There’s no meat in the basket, so maybe the expectation is that low-income families are vegetarian. And if you’ve even once been worried about your next paycheck, you would likely not buy seven limes on a $29 weekly budget.

In short, this shopping basket suggests Paltrow never seriously regarded the challenge as an attempt to understand being poor in the United States.