Jack Monroe #353 Jack Monroe campaigns for Jack Monroe not to be in poverty

[Helatruralhome]

I'm sure Jack tweeted that she was going to frame the phone she used as she even specified it was sunshine yellow or something- could you even get the blackberry style Nokia's in that colour..

 

[FeelingGroovy]

I just wanted to tell you all I had spaghetti hoops on a baked potato yesterday for lunch and I'm having the other half of the tin on toast today for lunch. Am I a maverick? Beans are gross.

Are you getting all up in my niche?! Do you want me to DIE?

 

[Spooons]

If the VBI was to be truly useful then it wouldn't look at prices but at shelf life and prep time. Healthy cooking of the type out-of-touch politicans often urge, ya know lentil curries and stuff like that, are definitely cheaper than ready meals gram for gram BUT require a large initial outlay to be palatable e.g. if you're going to make pulses your familiy's your main source of protein you need to buy spices, flavourings, herbs and other things to make them palatable especially to children, plus you may also need specialist kitchen equipment (I can't get over how many cheap recipes call for a food processor when I didn't have one when I was cash strapped and neither do most poor people. I didn't even have that much crockery and kitchen tools such as knives etc). If all you have to spend on your food shop is your benefits money you can't afford to make that initial outlay even though the spices and pulses would last longer and work out cheaper in the long run. But you can't make the initial investment so you have to buy ready prepared and processed food because it's cheap and you know your kids will eat it.

So a proper VBI would measure affordability of non-processed foods that are often held up as the 'answer' (pulses etc) and how long they would last compared with the initial outlay and cross reference that against what can actually be afforded on benefits. Palatability to kids, and the fact that poorer people are also time poor, would have to be taken into account. To paraphrase Jack, you can't spend hours bunging stuff in a curry when you work shifts.

There we go Jack, you're welcome.

IRL I support communities to provide store cupboard bags filled with ambient herbs/ spices/ tomato & garlic pastes/ lemon juice/ oils/ vinegars etc for exactly this reason. We include lentils (no soaking needed whatever JM says), stock cubes, pasta, recipes etc so folk can make most of what they get from food aid/ pantries without needing to spend money they don’t have. We also fundraise for kitchen equip.

 

[TreeTrunksApplePie]

"tablet computer"

oh go on and duck off

ETA: Wotcha Mary Poppins accent seems a lot stronger in that, innit?

"I'm a working class girl, I'd never SEEN a Steinway piano before!"

Sure Jan...

 

[Brian Butterfield]

 

[RamblerOfLandandMouth]

I guess, but there's sorting out with a big chunk of money Vs letting move back home or getting them a weekly shop until benefits arrive. Like the managed to bring bags of shopping when she went to the foodbank etc.

When again she was asked about moving back home it was a 'no room at the Inn' scenario BUT her mum was constantly inviting them to Sunday lunch in the comments etc which she would quickly shut down/respond badly to. I think there was bad feeling, she wanted money butvwasnt going to get it, they stood firm with her and she reacted badly and in true Jack style made it into a far bigger tale of woe than it actually was and purposefully pushed away anyone daring to question her rhetoric...even her own family...I seem to remember her mum was also ill around that time if I recall correctly...it's a long time ago and many moons since I was part of her Facebook world and its many accounts...I honestly couldn't keep up.

 

[jenny2603]

I'm sure Jack tweeted that she was going to frame the phone she used as she even specified it was sunshine yellow or something- could you even get the blackberry style Nokia's in that colour..

The yellow one was a later one she bought in 2017 because she was apparently getting racially abused with language more commonly directed at black people. Quite how or why anyone came to believe she was black is anyone's guess.*

I gave up my smartphone for a Nokia 3310 and radically changed my life.

Three weeks ago, I was sitting in the cinema with my girlfriend, waiting for the half-hour of advertorials to roll on. With the brightness on my screen turned down so as not to distract other cinem…

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*She made it up because she is deranged in quite a breathtakingly offensive way.

 

[Ostapbender]

"I'm a working class girl, I'd never SEEN a Steinway piano before!"

Sure Jan...

She was more of a Bechstein type of gal

 

[Cucumberthunder]

When again she was asked about moving back home it was a 'no room at the Inn' scenario BUT her mum was constantly inviting them to Sunday lunch in the comments etc which she would quickly shut down/respond badly to. I think there was bad feeling, she wanted money butvwasnt going to get it, they stood firm with her and she reacted badly and in true Jack style made it into a far bigger tale of woe than it actually was and purposefully pushed away anyone daring to question her rhetoric...even her own family...I seem to remember her mum was also ill around that time if I recall correctly...it's a long time ago and many moons since I was part of her Facebook world and its many accounts...I honestly couldn't keep up.

Thank you, it really is an interesting insight into how she operates.

Do you know if she moved out at 16 or 18?

 

[SmillieKylie]

Jack hasn’t replied to first Squig asking about the writing her book on a phone, kinda thinking Jack shan’t 2nd Squig is offering a helping hand though

 

[Lazarus]

Working title: The Sloppy Swindler

i'm willing to back this even though i still carry bitterness that my suggestion of Jack Monroe: The Tinder Swindler didn't get picked when she went on tinder saying she liked country music and was a gym rat and influencer.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

I'm sure Jack tweeted that she was going to frame the phone she used as she even specified it was sunshine yellow or something- could you even get the blackberry style Nokia's in that colour..

I think that's mixing a recently posted old blog with this tweet:

(ETA just spotted Jenny Numbers has posted the blog)

 

[LavaFlake]

The yellow one was a later one she bought in 2017 because she was apparently getting racially abused with language more commonly directed at black people. Quite how or why anyone came to believe she was black is anyone's guess.*

I gave up my smartphone for a Nokia 3310 and radically changed my life.

Three weeks ago, I was sitting in the cinema with my girlfriend, waiting for the half-hour of advertorials to roll on. With the brightness on my screen turned down so as not to distract other cinem…

cookingonabootstrap.com

*She mad it up because she is deranged in quite a breathtakingly offensive way.

I think at the time it's because she published a viral blog on the abuse Diane Abbott receives. Tbf I can full well imagine she did get abuse for that as the racist nutters come out in force to bat against Diane Abbott. As a white person she should not be writing that word though. Even if Ancient Greeks did braid their hair.

 

[moldwarp]

I think more people are openly hostile about CFS/ME than her other ailments, so she's possibly avoided it for that reason.

I too have a friend from school who also suffers with CFS/ME. She could not carry a dog a mile.

But also, didn't she say she had Ehlers-Danlos once and then never mentioned it again.

 

[RaeRae]

But also, didn't she say she had Ehlers-Danlos once and then never mentioned it again.

I'm pretty sure I recall that too

 

[TreeTrunksApplePie]

I thought the blog came first, then a publisher picked it up and turned it into a book (I may be completely wrong). So it would just be a case of lifting the recipes from the website.

Also, the woman who wrote 50 shades of Grey claims she wrote it on her Blackberry (but again, I think they started off as posts on Tumblr or something similar). It would be literally impossible to write a book on a Nokia 3310 (I used to have one. It only the had the capacity for texts and calls and Snake! It didn’t even have internet, so she much be talking about a later model).

That is right. And I remember her back in the day (OG former fan here) that she wrote the blog on her old phone. She's just twisting the truth but there's a grain of truth in it to make herself sound better than she is in her weird world. Like JK Rowling writing on cafe napkins.

 

[Rekyavikgirl]

But also, didn't she say she had Ehlers-Danlos once and then never mentioned it again.

Yeah, it was when she was waffling on about her loose baggy skin and prematurity

 

[Moneypenny’sfreedom]

Grunking, not sure if this has been posted already.

 

[Trauma Frotters]

Oh God! The cringe!!

She *really* can't sing - but, of course, so desperately wants people to tell her that she can...

What is wrong with me that, despite all warnings, I went and specifically sought out the singing part? How is it worse than the youtube videos? Can your throat curl up like a fruit winder because it certainly feels like mine has. My face is stuck in the "smelled a fart at a funeral" sneer.

 

[Cucumberthunder]

That is right. And I remember her back in the day (OG former fan here) that she wrote the blog on her old phone. She's just twisting the truth but there's a grain of truth in it to make herself sound better than she is in her weird world. Like JK Rowling writing on cafe napkins.

With the sort of phone she had you could probably publish blog posts to a website already created (perhaps on a Sony Vaio laptop?)