Hard-up and out of work actress Mischa Barton was left humiliated at a supermarket checkout counter this week when two of her credit cards were declined.

RadarOnline snitches were in the house when the English actress blushed as they were returned to her and she didn’t even have any cash to pay for the groceries she had been snacking on while she shopped at the Whole Foods at Fairfax and Crescent Heights in Los Angeles.

Spywitnesses claim Barton, who had been digging into cooked pasta from her basket, hung her head in shame as a friend picked up the tab.

Poor dear….The checkout ordeal comes just a few weeks after Barton put her six bedroom Beverly Hills home on the market and was sued for unpaid rent on her Manhattan apartment.