I'm very much a beige food person when I can't deal but need to feed us. Add a bag of mixed salad, some carrot sticks and cucumber on the side to look like I'm making an effort. Definitely no scattered rose petals though. Trying to hunt down a specialist ingredient would just mean the recipe never got made tbh
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When Nigella does this sort of thing, she gets criticised for it. But some of her recipes are aimed at people who have spare time and cash to visit that one shop in north London that sells some obscure ingredient. And she usually provides an alternative for us mortals.So helpful, Jack, for all those people who have bought your book which is aimed at people too depressed to put on a pot of pasta, only to find themselves trying to track down edible rose petals and lavender flowers
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Perhaps Jack thinks that trying to source edible flowers will distract her depressed followers? Or more likely, she bunged pot pourri on her dish and concepts such as ‘dangerous to health’ didn’t come into it because she never eats her own food anyway.
They’ve not been anywhere near Mauritius have they? It wasn’t oil, m’lud…it was something far worse…
This is a really interesting line of questioning. I've just finished diving through some newly-unearthed Jack archives (that have resurfaced due to her website issues, lol), and this is the issue that plagued her early career.
2013 was very clearly the year Jack peaked - her blog was booming and she got loads of media attention. This is from January, a feature in a local newspaper:
Here she's clearly saying that you can live well on a tiny budget. But a couple of months later, she did the Live Below the Line challenge (in fact, she did it twice!) which involved spending just 1£ a day on food, and apparently it left her malnourished and ill:
Her USP is (allegedly) healthy, nutritious food on a microbudget, but she also wants to say that you can't eat good food on a microbudget! And yeah, this has always been at the heart of her career, and she flies into a rage whenever anyone questions it.
Incidentally, in 2013 she went to a ton of conferences and panels - it was clearly her career peak, and she's been going downhill ever since. And frankly, she bleeping well deserves to, because after one conference she came out with this:
Well then surely Frank can go to Sainsbury's and rustle up some kale pesto like Jack, can't he? No? She is such an insufferable, self-centred bleep, utterly blind to her own privilege.
As an aside, seasoned Jack-watchers will recall this gem:
How does this fit with the timeline of media attention and fame throughout 2013? I can't say. Records do not suggest that she ran out of her Telegraph interview early, crying, "Sorry Xanthe, got a punter in 20 min!" nor that she filled her handbag with canapes when she spoke atthe Conservative Party conference that year. And shame on the Southend Echo for nor paying their journalists enough to even buy food!
How does this fit with the timeline of media attention and fame throughout 2013? I can't say. Records do not suggest that she ran out of her Telegraph interview early, crying, "Sorry Xanthe, got a punter in 20 min!" nor that she filled her handbag with canapes when she spoke at
Maybe Jack is referencing themselves, in that they are in fact the non-working cook(er)?
Mom’s recipe of the day is the Ruby pasta cooked in beetroot and I’m remembering Jack’s 3 day old beetroot water 
Her equating herself to Frank, quite predictably given my background, gives me the utter, utter rage.
Ah yes, the Live Below The Line challenge. Remember when she used the photos from that as proof that she was actually starving and struggling in a later post?
Where exactly are these protein packed soups and piles of fruit and veg for £10? Because if I remember her £10 a week cooking, many people pointed out her dishes were far too low in calories and nutrients for an adult to live on for a long period of time. For example, there was a pasta bake that had 200g of pasta and one tin of tuna that was supposed to serve four people.
I think we’ve had someone (sorry can’t remember who or if they’re even still posting) state they know the landlord and they’re not a relative? I’m crap at finding/searching for receipts here but maybe someone else with a better memory can confirm?
My bet is someone has paid the rent for Jack (a guarantor?) and/or Jack is easily able to pay for it themselves and the cosplay poverty is as ever for the continual grift. Also not like Jack would find it hard finding a smaller property to rent given Daddy is a landlord.
Was gonna say why can't she just go to her local frozen food establishment and go beige? I do exactly the same as you when I'm skint/can't be arsed, salad at Lidl is cheap enough and bags of hash browns/chips/pizzas whatever are usually less than a quid. It's got to be better than faffing about with slow cookers and lentils and god knows what else. I can do a decent shop for around 15-20 quid a week at Lidl and do just fine alongside the huge bags of pasta and tinned veg in the cupboards which also cost very little. Then the cats cost about 25 quid a month to run, wonder how she copes with that? My idiot ragdoll has ramped the cost up a bit cos he's massive, surely Coopsy costs a bit.
Molly-Mae Hague: We all have the same 24 hours
Meanwhile, worker exploitation and sitting on me arse doing selfies
Jack Monroe: We all have the same £20 for our weekly shop
Meanwhile, Ocado and a book advance/court case sofa throne of lies
Meanwhile, worker exploitation and sitting on me arse doing selfies
Jack Monroe: We all have the same £20 for our weekly shop
Meanwhile, Ocado and a book advance/court case sofa throne of lies
Who remembers these <points at something still readily available and regularly bought in quantity at Poundland>
Yes. Have you ever BEEN to poundland??
Thank you for being the thread archivist - I start reading and get too enraged to continue reading with a level head/analytical view. The inconsistencies are incredible aren’t they? Yet no one else seems to connect the dots - it’s so infuriating.
I get in the grand scheme of things Jack is barely a Z lister so no one is likely to invest the time to blow Jack’s lies out of the water but a lot of what Jack spouts is so bloody dangerous (and toxic) and they need to be stopped.
Sorry tagging this in here but unrelated - I really tie myself in knots when typing about Jack and using pronouns. As in I get confused as to whether Jack wants to be referred to as they/them or if she/her is ok to use? The old Times article I dug up Jack contradicted themselves on the matter but realise that’s quite old so am none the wiser.
This also isn’t a criticism of anyone who does use ‘She’ when referring to Jack as it doesn’t seem clear either way and no one is doing it to be malicious. Also sorry this is probably old stuff that’s we’ve covered before and I’m likely over thinking it.
This also isn’t a criticism of anyone who does use ‘She’ when referring to Jack as it doesn’t seem clear either way and no one is doing it to be malicious. Also sorry this is probably old stuff that’s we’ve covered before and I’m likely over thinking it.
Jack herself doesn't make it easier
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The bio on her own website refers to her as 'her'. She's taken they off her twitter profile. I think it's fair to say that she isn't bothered about pronouns.
What was it she said snippily to some poor squig who thought they were standing up to her when Caitlyn Moran referred to Jack as "she"? "My pronouns are getting the starving children fed!!!" or something to that effect.
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