Jack Monroe #112 Is that it? IS THAT IT

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Candytuft

My cousin Doreen lives in Huddersfield and makes the best Yorkshire puddings ever. Tasty clouds in fact. I think that at Christmas you eat what you want if you are lucky enough.
When we moved sort of across the world ten miles from Huddersfield folks there ate crumbly cheese with Christmas cake a step too far. Just too foreign !
 
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Fraggle

Vlad has either started his vodka early today, or the full moon is having an effect....

 
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TheDragonWithAFlagon

OK, prawn cocktail. In the spirit of what was done in the 70s by a widowed mother of 5 (plus one grandchild that was a bit of a surprise shortly after #5 child appeared on the scene).

1 tub prawn cocktail from the Coop (£2.30, 170g).
1 pack of tomatoes from the Coop (£0.75, approx 6 in pack)
1 lettuce from the Coop (£0.60 for Iceberg bleurgh) or £0.90 for Little Gem x 2)
Salad Cream, 2 big blobs (£0.90 from M&S at Ocado, so about 30p)
- or as we're being FANCY - get one of the jars of Hellmann's stashed under the bed (free) or M&S £1.30 and a splosh of vinegar/kombucha (negligible cost) so about 26-39p
Tomato Ketchup, 1 big squirt (M&S at Ocado, 65p or nicked from a pub/cafe when open, so about 6p.
Lemon juice. Jif, obviously, 1tsp (£1.20, so 2.4p).
Pepper.


Empty tub of prawn cocktail into a bowl. Add the tomatoes, deseeded and cut into quarters and then sliced (so effectively prawn shaped). Add the salad cream/mayo, lemon and pepper. Place on lettuce leaves. Total cost to buy the ingredients = £5.50-ish. Actual 2020 equivalent cost for the 7 people who had it = £3.44 or 49p a portion.



On our first Christmas together, Me and Mr D had the smallest piece of beef in the world (it made 3 slices each after it had shrunk down from roughly the size of a tin of corned beef - thinking about it, it was roughly the same shape, too) because it was yellow stickered at 9am Christmas Eve for less than £3.

I made a proper Yorkshire pud, half an Irish field of potatoes, cooked 3 large carrots and some cabbage. It probably cost in all around £6 and we were stuffed for £3 each. Now, I did have a fuckton of condiments to choose from already, but there's only so much you can eat at one time - and a big slab of Yorkshire pud goes a long, long way with the potatoes in making you feel warm, sleepy and full.
 
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MrsOgre

Are they being serious that they don't think children would be more deserving than Jack? Is she managing to brainwash people about how poor she is?
 
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TVC15

“Bit-part bolshy budget baked bean blogger.”

Can’t remember the origins of this Twitter bio, and I believe we’ve moved on from words JM doesn’t know, but I’m feeling petty on my lunch break and would like to point out that “bit-part” makes no sense here. Are they saying they are an an actor playing a small role with few lines in the grand scheme of things? Never heard it outside the context of a show or performance. Did they mean “two-bit” (insignificant, cheap, worthless), but it didn’t fit with the B alliteration? Is “bit-part” common British slang I don’t know? Have they mistaken clang associations for clever writing?

Or is JM a writer who literally doesn’t care much about the literal meaning of words and “bit-part” seemed like appropriate faux humility?

Any thoughts appreciated, but I’m really busy with my smoked salmon salad (don’t worry — just won the lottery) so FUCK OFF.
 
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jenny2603

MrsOgre said:
Are they being serious that they don't think children would be more deserving than Jack? Is she managing to brainwash people about how poor she is?View attachment 329576
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Surely... I mean Christ...there is no way this can be anything other than a piss take.

I'm sorry it's just the almost psychedelic weirdness of it. What is it they imagine she does? Do they look at someone like Mandela and say "well he was OK I suppose but he never shared his recipes on a free blog".
 
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Lanie

I honestly don't get the tin thing. I have lived to relatively strict budgets all my life and I only eat beans and soup out of a tin occasionally.

If you shop around and shop right you can actually make pretty frugal meals for little that contain less salt and preservatives. I know she bases stuff on stuff from food banks but she makes already quite a sad time for people even worse by making the food seem inedible ( well to me anyway)

Most people myself included want to know fun, easy recipies to make that will actually feed and sustain a family on little money.
 
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ChickenPorridge

She's caught up here and is now pretending she's also hashing this out on WhatsApp with imaginary friends. Also she's completed it mate when it comes to becoming a parody of herself.
 
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ChickenPorridge

What happened to her severe tomato allergy for which she was carrying epi pens and got a tattoo about #nomato
 
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