Jack Monroe #135 No measurable outcomes

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Holy shit.

Recap: she left the fire service in Nov 2011, having moved home a month before. This entry is after Hunger Hurts, after the Open House Sale, in the grip of full poverty:



Hardship is affording 725£ a month and not even having a garden.

(No parking? Car truthers, have at it!)

Here's something frustrating. The initial entry in this series was deleted early - as in, before the rest of the blog was deleted - and is not archived. But the whole conceit of the very cheap recipes started out as her doing the Living Below The Line Challenge, which some of you may remember. It was quite a big thing at the time, to live on a pound a day. Apparently she set out to do it for 28 days instead of 5. In another recipe, a month earlier, she made a cake with chopped caramelised plums, brandy-soaked sultanas and chopped hazelnuts with orange zest, and a Guinness glaze.

So yeah. Poverty tourism, defined.





And finally...she always did hate That Man 🤍

 
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Raydog

Also would it not be more expensive to waste socks as fanny pads, than to just buy fanny pads? The socks wouldn't work well, her underwear would be soiled, and she would then need to spend time and washing powder trying to unfuck them up.

Of course, she could have just nipped round the corner to Mum's and asked them to lend her a couple of quid.

Also toilet roll ! Who hasn’t used that when caught short ? My check cheaper than fecking socks ! God she’s a twat - I’ve come to the place of the poster earlier that said ‘why has no one ever questioned the selling of light bulbs ffs’ it is so beyond true it makes my head explode and that’s before I even start on the American ‘yard sale’ !
 
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gracebevsescapingboobs

It’s been said endlessly but I’m so shocked at “feral”. She may as well have called them freaks. I bet they’ll remove it!
 
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gracebevsescapingboobs

Yep in that situation I’ve used tissues or asked someone else to borrow some. SOCKS??????
 
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LyraBalaqua

To say food poverty was ever a niche says all you need to know about the stupid, dopey idiot who wrote it.
 
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Fruitjack

imagine how she’d react if Annunciata had suggested using home grown herbs in cooking school box lunches?????
 
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I’MBUSY!

I also love the bit in the article that says Jack is “heavily surveilled by the tabloid press”. What? Has anyone ever seen a pap shot of her?

Or does surveillance now mean “sometimes we report some shit she’s said on social media, but not often because no one really knows or cares who she is”.
 
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Emmapism

Wow. Her rent when she was 'poor' is more than I have ever paid in rent. And it's more than I pay for my mortgage now. I was renting two years before Jack and never paid that much.

Am I.....poor?

Fucking hell if that's the criteria are we all poor?!
 
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Fitnessqueen

Sir Matt of the Forearms was caught swearing right at the beginning of SKL this morning. Unfortunately it was only “bloody hell” rather than “ I don’t care what Twitter says, I‘m not having fucking Monroe back”
 
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Fruitjack

Regular readers will be happy to read that I’m keeping up in real time so tomorrow morning is safe
 
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Walkdengirl

moosesauna said:
I'm still traumatised by the godawful blended beans and pickled onion 'soup' i saw on a Facebook group. What's the obsession with pickled onions ????
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Most mugshots are no longer free. Avocado has lots of calories/fat, hence why it is full of syns.

Lean meat and veggies are free to eat as are beans and pulses

I don't do a lot if sw recipes as I can make nicer with either the same, or less syns. The Iceland sw range is generally rank and that's being kind
 
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FunnyFuneral

No music studio or office !! I'm obviously doing all this keeping a roof (it's on a house) over my kids heads all wrong. Should have made sure I had a minstrel's gallery or mezzanine
 
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Lumpyspaceprincess

For those interested in secondary school places, the forms needed to be in by end of October where I live. We find out in February where you are allocated.
 
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Walkdengirl

moosesauna said:
I'm still traumatised by the godawful blended beans and pickled onion 'soup' i saw on a Facebook group. What's the obsession with pickled onions ????
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I don't think they are, but they want to see their grandchild, and it's good for him to see them. Easier to say nothing then risking narc rage.
 
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heretoreaditall2019

Emmapism said:
Wow. Her rent when she was 'poor' is more than I have ever paid in rent. And it's more than I pay for my mortgage now. I was renting two years before Jack and never paid that much.

Am I.....poor?

Fucking hell if that's the criteria are we all poor?!
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Especially considering it was 2012/3 too that feels v high, I wouldn’t have spent that much on rent (and subsequent bills) from a £27k salary and that’s without a child and potential car.

Shockingly - it doesn’t really add up! And suggests some additional help from somewhere? Imagine if this decade long crusade against her parents was the result of them cutting off an allowance
 
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colouredlines

FunnyFuneral said:
No music studio or office !! I'm obviously doing all this keeping a roof (it's on a house) over my kids heads all wrong. Should have made sure I had a minstrel's gallery or mezzanine
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Also why was the room acting as a music studio when she had just sold her guitars (plural) and piano (gifted), and poverty famously made her stop singing for years?!

Speaking of that...selling her camera was hugely traumatic, right? Because she had a photography business up and running by the end of 2012, complete with local exhibitions, so I guess she...bought a new one?
 
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Ninch55

I made that version of Avgolemono, back in the days before I Saw The Light. It was absolutely rank, and I followed the recipe to the letter.
 
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