Jack Monroe #27 Jack's career move after cooking with cans? Who’d have thought it would be OnlyFans?

[blurstoftimes]

Also, total nonsense. Most good hummus recipes recommend adding some of the silky (slimy?) chickpea water to the hummus when blending. It's the traditional way, make it very creamy and means you can save on the amount of oil you add. Adding milk to hummus is a disgrace. She really is clueless. Here's a really nice recipe: https://www.jamieoliver.com/features/best-basic-houmous-recipe/

MILK?!!! Also is tahini really that much more expensive than peanut butter anyway? Hummus is the most wonderfully simple recipe why does she have to ruin everything

 

[Falkor]

Sympathies to those with the draining exes/friends. When I told my emotionally abusive ex husband I wanted a divorce he would say things like 'Make sure you've hidden all the kitchen knives really well, or I might not be here when you get back from work'. One night he dramatically stated he was going to take every pill in the bathroom and I was so fed up with it by then (he refused to move out for ages, so we got stuck in my one-bed flat together for about eight months) that I got him a pint mug of water and told him to bloody well get on with it then. He took 6 ibuprofen (which weren't going to have a huge effect, he was about 17 stone) and then stopped and demanded I drive him to A&E, where I'm glad to say they gave him VERY short shrift.

Do not miss him one little bit and wasn't even slightly sad when I heard he'd died of a heart attack last year, even though we were together for 9 years.

Ooh, I've gone to chatty member!

 

[MooBelle]

On the news they've just announced that the government have backed down about the food vouchers and that they will be issued through holidays.

Bet your bum Jack will bang on about how she was 'leading the campaign'and it was all down to her.

 

[Motherwellgirl]

On the news they've just announced that the government have backed down about the food vouchers and that they will be issued through holidays.

Bet your bum Jack will bang on about how she was 'leading the campaign'and it was all down to her.

Well done Marcus Rashford. Someone who grew up in poverty and is using his voice to do good for others.

(Others could watch and learn).

 

[MrsOgre]

And she's off...

 

[Raker]

There a load of idiots on Insta but most of them know that peak engagement time is 8pm, wouldnt you advertise your paid job around that time and make sure it was you looking your best!

I haven’t had timeto go back to the thread that originally brought me here, but surely she could learn something from FOD

(*Peeps through fingers* Is he still posting?)

 

[Figmentofimagination]

Hi Jack, I am fairly sure you check in here regularly. I am going to give you some unsolicited advice now, it is coming from a good place, but it is going to be of the 'take no prisoners' variety. While I'm sure you'll disregard it as I am an evil troll, it is well meant.

Shut up about your woes. What you are suffering from is a case of 'being a human'. I will not play misery top trumps with you, but I certainly could, and the truth is it's most likely that the person next to me, and the person next to them, and the person next to them (you see where this is going now, right) could do it too. Sometimes life is hard, sometimes life throws crappy things at you and you know what, that's just what it is. We have all got our baggage, and we could all be drowned in it. It really sucks.

But you know what, it also throws good things at you, all the bleeping time. And you are not getting that. Sure, I've seen posts from you about the positives, but they don't ring true, and when the chips are down you always circle back to the bad stuff. You've got to stop doing that. For your own sake. And something else for free, all that bad stuff, there's things in it that are good. Firstly, and basically, pain teaches us things, even if it's just that we can cope with it, that it builds us, and strengthens us. It teaches us about human kindness when people show it to us when things are tough. It teaches us that, often, humour and laughter and smiles are to be found in everything, every day.

I will give you a personal anecdote here. I was once waiting for an MRI to assess the stage of a cancerous tumour. I was scared, so scared, I was not a big, brave person, I knew I had cancer, but I did not know how bad it was and I did not know what treatments I was going to have to go through, and I was *not* a good, strong cancer patient. I was a nervous wreck. There was a huge backlog for the MRI machine that day, as I'd been raced through to get it done quickly, so my mum and I were sitting for hours in a waiting room. She eventually got out a pack of cards (duck knows *why* my mum had a pack of cards in her handbag, but she is a clever woman) and to the bemusement of everyone around us we started playing knock out whist. Then, eventually, we drew an audience, then a couple of random players, and the whole room was full of people connecting. You know what, I could choose to remember that day as an awful day, and it is my tendency to do that, but I don't, I choose to remember that hour or so, where everyone laughed and the world was ok for a bit. And the bit after, when my mum and I went and sat on a bench in the pretty hospital garden for a bit before we left, and just chatted about plants and gardening and medical students and made up names and lives for them all. The point is, I'm nothing special, I don't have a huge inner strength, or a particularly stunning personality, but everyone can choose to do this. Not be a Pollyanna, but there is always joy if you are prepared to pick that.

I don't see you picking joy. I see you doubling down on whatever sadness there is currently in your life. I'm truly sorry, but there will always be sadness, and it is ok to spend a few hours or a few days dwelling on that (though I would always suggest doing that privately and with people you can trust, the ideal would be with professionals who can guide you through it), but I have learnt, starting when I was so very young, that there is always a possibility for joy and laughter and, it sounds trite, but don't underestimate it, fun, to be had, even in the darkest of days. Fix on that, remember those moments and let the painful ones go. It's harder than I make it sound. I know. The pain will keep coming back, and you can let it in for short periods, but don't wallow, keep on going. Not manically, but calmly, just let the days happen until you wake up one day and realise that there is less pain. However, there's a problem. Pain can be attractive, having it bad can be attractive, you get sympathy, and love, and attention. I know, I've gone in for that too. It's so easy to endlessly recycle pain and never move on from it. I see you doing that and you should stop. Plus, it feels unfair, so you (generic you) focus on that too. 'Why me? Why is it always me?' I can help with that one though. It's not always you, or rather it is, but it's always everyone else too. There's always something, nearly always, and I think the best thing I can say here is that you have to accept it, maybe some level of pain (mental, physical, emotional) is part of the human condition and rather than rail against those parts, accept them (this is dull constant work for me and for most) and celebrate the days that are wonderful as shining lights in your life, rather than your right all the time. We are all of us both not special and incredibly special all at the same time.

Now, to the toughest love part. You're being ungrateful, everyone is sometimes, but you are being especially ungrateful in my, obviously not so humble, opinion. I will compare you to me now, and to millions of other people, I have pain, I have a lot of pain, I also have very limited opportunities. I have to work in a job that I find often dull, it's certainly not what I thought my life would be. I have to do it, because I have bills to pay, on my own, and a child to support. I live in a small house, I struggle often, I don't have any *big* chances to do good. I would like to do some good, but I am short on time and energy to do that once I'm done with the business of living and staying alive. But mostly I have no platform. You, though, you have choices. You have a platform, you have opportunities (please don't tell me that you don't and that you are too much of a maverick, you've written in newspapers, you've been on a daily TV show on BBC1, you have sold many, many books). You have a voice and a career doing something that you apparently love. Those are such huge gifts and I feel like maybe you have lost sight of them, because they are somehow normalised to you now (that's not a criticism, that's just the way of people, we get accustomed to what we have). So, stop using that platform to explain to everyone that your life is hard, I'm happy to accept some of it is, because, as extensively covered, it is for us all. Use it to bring joy, to lift the world up a little bit, and celebrate that good fortune (that, ironically came out of some of your pain, as a lot of good fortune does). Well done on managing that, by the way, now stop cycling back to the pain, and move on. Focus on people having a worse time than you, that helps me, and lift them up. Stop being thirsty, you don't need any more validation, follow that need up in therapy, not online. Stop misery top-trumps, they are awful and they drag *everyone* down. Crack on and be better. Talk about this in therapy. Not what has gone wrong, but how it's made you who you are, and what positives and negative there are from that. Resolve to fix the negatives (even if it feels unfair that you have to do that, I'm afraid it's only you who can). Good luck. It's hard, but you're obviously an intelligent woman, you could do this if you chose to. If you feel you are at rock bottom, then I know it seems unfair to have to do more work, but when could there be a better time to start? Don't recycle behaviours, find new ones.

Ok. That is an essay.

TLDR - Jack. Shape up. You're just experiencing life, not some exquisite form of torture only inflicted on you. Make better choices. Go back to therapy. Celebrate your gifts and your opportunities. Stop looking for external validation. For god's sake STOP PLAYING MISERY TOP TRUMPS FROM TODAY. Best of luck.

Wow. This is amazing.

 

[MrsOgre]

Get your screenshots in people!

 

[HarderFaster]

And she's off...

Why's she being such a COCK to someone who was in the same situation as she was once upon a time?

It's true, you can only use Trussell Trust foodbanks 3 times in a year, and you have to be referred by a JSA adviser, a GP, a school etc. This seems restrictive but it's because the whole point is that the volunteers signpost users to services which can help them in the long term.

Independent ones are less regulated. Interesting to me that Jack was using one which asks fewer questions/ is less concerned with why you are there.

 

[blurstoftimes]

Jack does not care about feeding vulnerable children, she cares about exploiting another situation to remind people of her six months of poverty and making a further case for her eventual Sainthood as the working class hero of twitter

 

[Saint_clemmie]

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does she have a PR? She’s single handedly destroying her career. Why do this morning have her back? Her experience isn’t even relevant to this topic.

 

[Yel]

On the news they've just announced that the government have backed down about the food vouchers and that they will be issued through holidays.

Bet your bum Jack will bang on about how she was 'leading the campaign'and it was all down to her.

Unpopular opinion, but as someone without children and once reliant on just jsa I find people like jack really unhelpful in this all. Claimants with children are far better looked after and less likely to slip through the cracks. If you think support for a single parent with a child is low you should try being a single person. I wish jsa / universal credit was set at a reasonable level for all. Anyone not able to feed themselves regardless of if they have children or not should get help.

Of course jack never actually faced the lightbulb and toy dinosaur selling poverty she claims to, probably why she's such a detriment to the cause.

Just learns a few stats about food banks to regurgitate and gets put on the telly.

 

[Silver Linings]

She’s tired and grouchy and shouting at people now, which is going to make giggly, friendly Jack even more jarring later. Hellmanns must be fuming.

 

[MrsOgre]

1 of these is a reply to her tweet, one she liked that basically sounds like she has been campaigning alongside Marcus.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

She's winding herself up on Twitter. Pobably not a good idea just before an Instagram live which she can't cope with anyway.

 

[Harrybosch]

Does Jack not have proof readers or an editor then? ‘Militating?’

That's Nigella, also too verbose for my taste.

 

[Motherwellgirl]

Unpopular opinion, but as someone without children and once reliant on just jsa I find people like jack really unhelpful in this all. Claimants with children are far better looked after and less likely to slip through the cracks. If you think support for a single parents with a child is low you should try being a single person. I wish jsa / universal credit was set at a reasonable level for all. Anyone not able to feed themselves regardless of if they have children or not should get help.

Of course jack never actually faced the lightbulb and toy dinosaur selling poverty she claims to, probably why she's such a detriment to the issue.

Just learns a few stats about food banks to regurgitate and get to put on the telly.

Absolutely. I’m single and on UC and it’s an absolute struggle. No in work allowance for a start.

Adding to say I know kids are expensive and no one should be living well below the line.

But as someone said a few posts ago being in poverty is some people’s reality daily. For years. Jack managed to get herself out of that situation (good for her), but she should stop acting like she’s the poster girl for austerity. She’s not.

Her books will have helped some people who are very poor be slightly less poor. I know she’s donated to an Edinburgh foodbank. 300 quid.

If you can give that kind of donation to a foodbank you ain’t skint.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

MILK?!!! Also is tahini really that much more expensive than peanut butter anyway? Hummus is the most wonderfully simple recipe why does she have to ruin everything

Much of a muchness once you get out of the Basics range (ie, full of sugar and palm oil). Couple of quid a jar for organic, less in Turkish shops.

To do it round here would be 29p for a can of chickpeas, 20p for a lemon, 20p for a bulb of garlic, £1.50 for the smallest jar of tahini, plus some oil just to drizzle on the top and pine nuts, about 69p, if you want to be fancy. And you'd still be left with loads of everything except chickpeas afterwards.

Could also make Fava with those ingredients if you get a tin of foul medames (39p round the corner, the Lebanese version is Fava and Chickpeas, btu there are lots of different versions. Possibly slightly more authentic/less 'I want something I can buy in the supermarket for £1'.


I'm currently boiling some pearl barley and split peas in stock with a celery stick, carrot and spring onion, plus thyme and dill prunings. Once it's done, I'll shove in some parsley from the garden and it will be lovely for lunch. Cost - bugger all.

 

[Saint_clemmie]

She's winding herself up on Twitter. Pobably not a good idea just before an Instagram live which she can't cope with anyway.

I don’t know why she said yes to this morning when she has her live this afternoon, we all know what’s she’s like. Will she do a Chaos again?

 

[Silver Linings]

I can’t believe (I can) that after not a peep about this issue all week and then 5 mins on TM and she’s @‘ing herself into the celebratory tweets to what an amazing young man has achieved. Singlehandedly solving racism and now kids meals. Honestly did the gov who she consults not want her valued opinion on this issue? Yet another pond she’s waded into and got herself into a pickle.