Jack Monroe #112 Is that it? IS THAT IT

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SweetTransvestite

SweetTransvestite

Candytuft said:
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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Agree 100%❤
If fortunate enough to have a choice then it should be whatever you damn well please. We've all picked up little traditions from family/friends that might differ from each other. Usually, Christmas is the most expensive meal of the year (whatever your budget) & the thought of people spending what little they have on a JM recipe plan has made me genuinely sad.
 
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Themaninblack

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KebabGirl said:
Wow, quite the day. Poor BB. Why not create a small database with the prices? For easy access and reporting.
Charlie Bingham. Were these not a small batch product years ago and now more mass produced? So able to keep a price point.

And just seen this on Insta. Why have they chosen him for Seriously Good ads when JM could have done it :ROFLMAO:

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She was contracted to a rival. Therefore on gardening leave. This also explains the nails.
 
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DinosaurSenior

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This was in the very first cook book I ever bought, in 1984, "Off the shelf" by Evelyn Findlater, which is full of "store cupboard health food" recipes.

At first I thought this one was very " Jack", but actually it sounds quite tasty, especially if made with quite dense wholemeal bread.
 
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Blurp

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Blurp said:
After several years of finding the starter still in the fridge on Boxing Day, we gave up. My dad used to share around copious amounts of champagne before lunch (two bottles as our Christmas treat!) and I was usually too bleezing by the time I'd finished cooking to remember the starter, just get the hot stuff on the table! One year I actually forgot to put my veggie meal in the oven so had a lovely playful of veg and roasties.
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For goodness' sake, autocarrot, it was PLATEFUL when I posted it! Jeepers.

Ooh, I've gone all vippy. Again.
 
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SweetTransvestite

SweetTransvestite

Lanie said:
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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She is absolutely not what it says on the tin.
If was her raison d'etre truly is to pass on her knowledge & experience, it is this that should provide the most professional gratification. Instead, her career high has been the GQ 'gig' & I think that particular embarrassment speaks for itself.

Oh squiggles, Mackie Antoinette wants you to eat cake🙁
 
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jenny2603

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Veronicaaa said:
a. how do you 'maraud' through magazines? b. Oh you all can afford just prawns in your prawn cocktail? Can you buy little old me a house please? Pathetic.
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Oh God, it's going to be a chopped fish finger cocktail, prawns are too pricey for ever so 'umble Jack.
 
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NP

NP

Minky McMoneypenny said:
Imagine one day she tweets: "Keeping it simple tonight with baked salmon fillet with salad and boiled potatoes. Not exactly a budget meal, but as part of my week's food planning, it's nice to include something that SB and I enjoy, feels like a treat and it's quick and easy so we can spend more time together." IMAGINE!
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We live in hope. Unfortunately she would NutriBullet the salmon, the salad would be last week’s yellow-sticker sludge that walked from the fridge to her plate by itself and the potatoes would be boiled in leftover beetroot pasta water.
 
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Gnomic Gnome

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Ellabella said:
No-one gives a tit Jack if you've got a forensic knowledge of food pricing. There is no demand for a Rainman of the Retail Price Index, with an ability to recall the price of soft cream cheese for the last ten years off the top of your head. It's not a memory contest.
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Thread title: The Rainman of the Retail Price Index
 
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Lanie

Lanie

NoseyParkour said:
What does this mean? Who is she quoting?
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I despise the fact she called him son. I really hate that patronising phrase. ( Obviously unless it is in fact your son) makes me mad.

Who does she actually think she is to call him that.🙄
 
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