She'll blame tattle for any bad reviews. I have no intention of buying this book or writing any reviews.
Jack Monroe #16 Queen of the freezer, bathtime teaser & blue tick pleaser
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Depressed. Want popcorn. Buy a bag of the ready made stuff or at a push the micro stuff. There is no way I would do any dishes. It’s a thankless task at the best of times but how insurmountable does it seem when you are down.
When I’m down it’s about al I can do to make up fish fingers and chips for tea.
Exactly, nothing with a mess. Basic freezer food is my max effort or pasta pesto. Why can’t she just accept most of us fo beans on toast, pasta with pesto and frozen peas is my standby! The whole small boy breakfast actually made me jittery. It reminded me I need to take my “happy pills” this morning. Just toast the roll and put some jam or honey on it? We know she keeps a kilo of butter handy at all times, so no prob there
I know a 'fluffernutter' sandwich is an American thing involving peanut butter, and that marshmallow fluff you buy in a jar. Not sure I'd want to eat it however
And *spew* at putting lemon curd in fried rice. Rice pudding perhaps, but definitely not fried!
And *spew* at putting lemon curd in fried rice. Rice pudding perhaps, but definitely not fried!
Oh totally. I know everyone's experience of depression is different and I know that I am talking about a period of my life when I was in the midst of a full on breakdown that had been 20 years in the making, but still. I managed to make my child food, and it was the bare minimum that I could manage, things that could be shoved in the oven and taken out 20mins later, so I didn't have to smell it cooking or stand over it. I'd eat toast or cereal. And sometimes I'd order a takeaway, as long as it could be done on Just Eat, and by the time it turned up, I was often too fraught at the thought of it to eat it and my part of it would go into the fridge until I could deal with it the next day. I'd go to supermarkets to try and buy food and end up just standing in an aisle, feeling entirely overwhelmed, let alone shopping with an actual recipe in mind. I once had to ring a friend who had to guide me round the supermarket and out of the door. And I know, I know this is at the extreme end of things, but I'm sure plenty of people have similar stories. This book is SO far removed from my experience. I just don't get who it's going to help.
These days, if I have a bad day (and I am not talking anything as bad as I was) I retreat into my well-worn pattern of things I've cooked for 20+ years, or dig something out of the freezer. Stuff that I can do without thinking about, because I know I need to eat properly, but I need to manage what energy I assign to that process. It's not a time to pick up a new book and try and work out a new recipe, however simple it is.
I just don't get who this is aimed at.
Yes. The mess thing is so crucial. Even a dirty saucepan felt too much some days.Exactly, nothing with a mess. Basic freezer food is my max effort or pasta pesto. Why can’t she just accept most of us fo beans on toast, pasta with pesto and frozen peas is my standby! The whole small boy breakfast actually made me jittery. It reminded me I need to take my “happy pills” this morning. Just toast the roll and put some jam or honey on it? We know she keeps a kilo of butter handy at all times, so no prob there
All of this to say what is one line on the back of the packetOne of the extracts is how to make popcorn
I wonder if you could substitute tinned spaghetti juice for the marmite?
i just can’t overstate how much I dislike her writing style. My opinion of course, your honour.
Me too, totally unnecessary adjectives. Trying to be dramatic and sounding like a Mills & Boon! You can tell she really rates herself as a writer
Rates herself as a writer, cook, model, firefighter, Dr, TV presenter, journalist , campaigner.Me too, totally unnecessary adjectives. Trying to be dramatic and sounding like a Mills & Boon! You can tell she really rates herself as a writer
Just my opinion M’lud.
Every bleeping recipe has a dreadful, flowery prologue and a load of bullshit about how she (thinks she) invented it. Her editor should be sacked.
Totally agree with you, this happened with Brummy Mummy’s book of poetry, if you don’t know what that is then stay in the dark, she claimed to all her fans that the negative reviews were all tattle trolls.
They clearly weren’t from Tattle but she sent all her fans over to Amazon to give her 5* reviews!
I bake a lot more when I'm depressed. It's not even so much that I have a bigger appetite when I'm really bad either, but it's almost like trying to create something which will make me feel again, if that makes sense. Lots more beige food too.
When we were discussing the bad reviews yesterday I was half expecting a twitter meltdown about us leaving them all, as if we could time travel back to early 2019 and make a verified purchase.
None of us will be leaving reviews cos none of us are buying it so it’s not a review of the product is it! We’ll analyse our snippets here thank you very much x
I’ve never been babed by the Land Rover class before
Someone bring me to speed!? Last time I checked in she had camped in her urban jungle garden with a she wee and a disgusting so called ‘toddy’
And she thought that was a good idea to knock that up at 8am on a school day when she’s been up all night painstakingly writing her book and he’s in his pj’s and probably has to be in school by 9am.
sure, sounds like responsible parenting to me.
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Once.. ONCE I forgot to get food in for breakfast. Still not sure what happened, but just one of those things where everything had run out and the shop wasn't coming until that evening. I could have looked for a bag of sugar and sprinkled it on an old dry bap, but why would I send my child to school as high as a kite and starving an hour later?
We ended up having a Sainso cafe fry up- she was 4 at the time, and demolished it all. She still talks about it now age 6 as being the "best day of my life"
We ended up having a Sainso cafe fry up- she was 4 at the time, and demolished it all. She still talks about it now age 6 as being the "best day of my life"
Where have you been?
You have missed;
Lugging paint to the shed.
Decorating said shed and tweeting about her new show.
Shaving her hair.
Dying a rats tail strand of hair that she left.
Taking messiah style photos of new hair.
Taking photos in the bath.
Taking photos in her bra.
Fridge breaking.
Begging for Smeg fridge.
Lightly Releasing new book.
Making a ton of mashed potatoes and comparing it to proper chef.
A bit more sobbing, ranting, enlightening and deleting.
Think that’s it? Am sure I have missed something.
Edited to add, we still haven’t seen new shed nor is lockdown larder happening now JO is off the screen!
Ughhh, that fluffernut bollocks. Why the bloody hell does she have to preface every single thing with her fake ‘I’m such a workhorse’ shtick?? Literally nobody works all through the night until 5am, as a matter of habit. People have insomnia, people have night shifts, and people work in the day. Nobody works allllll day and allllll night, forgetting along the way that they have a kid to get to school. This whole last egg thing, why is everything the last, a scrap, an end, or cobbled together? If she had nothing to put on French toast, but had a roll, an egg, and some form of veg, why wouldn’t she just toast the roll and scramble the one egg with a bit of milk and butter? Or make the French toast and just pour some honey over it? The reasoning behind the recipe just doesn’t add up! Why would you send your kid to school on a marshmallow breakfast, when you’re pretending to be writing your ‘depressipies’ 
Based on their nutritional content? Regarding that nutrition angle, did she actually consult a professional for that side of things??
Based on their nutritional content? Regarding that nutrition angle, did she actually consult a professional for that side of things??- Status