Jack Monroe #376 Schrödinger's Poor Person

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Dogrose

Dogrose

moaningmyrtle24 said:
There's little point to her doing this if we can't see how it translates into a meal plan because I really doubt this is enough food for two adults and one child (even if there are only there half the time).
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I just don’t see why it’s so ~labour intensive~ to share the meal plan. I mean, since she’s so forensic surely she does a rough meal plan before she shops? Can’t she just share that?
We’re lucky enough not to be on the bones of our a and we have a rough plan before we shop to minimise food and money waste.
 
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Mrsoverall

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Tabitha D said:
I actually think there’s something rather disordered in her behaviour here. She’s kind of fetishising the weekly shop and all the palaver around it. The photo before she sets out, the list of all the “equipment” she needs for said shop, the photos of her haul, and the endless explanations plus detailed written notes. It’s just all too much. It doesn’t need to be this complicated and it’s pretty unhealthy that she makes it so. And she gets all gleeful and giddy about it too, which is a sign things are not quite right.
For most of us, it’s just a mundane weekly task. We make a quick list, tot things up as we go along, buy our stuff, go home. It really shouldn’t take hours and hours. People in the real world, with real jobs and/or family responsibilities, just DON’T HAVE TIME for this crap.
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Tabitha D said:
I actually think there’s something rather disordered in her behaviour here. She’s kind of fetishising the weekly shop and all the palaver around it. The photo before she sets out, the list of all the “equipment” she needs for said shop, the photos of her haul, and the endless explanations plus detailed written notes. It’s just all too much. It doesn’t need to be this complicated and it’s pretty unhealthy that she makes it so. And she gets all gleeful and giddy about it too, which is a sign things are not quite right.
For most of us, it’s just a mundane weekly task. We make a quick list, tot things up as we go along, buy our stuff, go home. It really shouldn’t take hours and hours. People in the real world, with real jobs and/or family responsibilities, just DON’T HAVE TIME for this crap.
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Tabitha D said:
I actually think there’s something rather disordered in her behaviour here. She’s kind of fetishising the weekly shop and all the palaver around it. The photo before she sets out, the list of all the “equipment” she needs for said shop, the photos of her haul, and the endless explanations plus detailed written notes. It’s just all too much. It doesn’t need to be this complicated and it’s pretty unhealthy that she makes it so. And she gets all gleeful and giddy about it too, which is a sign things are not quite right.
For most of us, it’s just a mundane weekly task. We make a quick list, tot things up as we go along, buy our stuff, go home. It really shouldn’t take hours and hours. People in the real world, with real jobs and/or family responsibilities, just DON’T HAVE TIME for this crap.
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Hmmm. Reminds me of this...
 

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MooBelle

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No you didn't.
You applied for the RAF like your brother and you failed pretty much every test they set you.
Again, for newbies and lurkers .
Jack left school with few exams. Her father was a Para and her brother was in the RAF. Jack decided it was really easy to join because she is 'military round the edges'.
Basically she wasn't of the calibre needed and she stomped off in a tantrum, never to mention it again until she sued Katie Hopkins and she was the most upstanding of patriots and just bloody loves the RAF.
Never mentioned the bleeping army or being a chef.
 
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Malkiavelli

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ishant said:
So, you’re a misleading POS

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This is so unbelievably, and purposely, vague as to be totally pointless. True to form. “Some store cupboard and freezer stuff” could essentially mean ‘whatever the duck I fancy’ whilst allowing people to believe that she’s scraped by on that 18 quid shop…

God she’s horrible.
 
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Onestorytoomany

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ishant said:
So, you’re a misleading POS

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She shops stupid.

I went shopping on Thursday, i bought what i needed and meal planed as i went, what i have will mostly last( with bread, milk, fruit topups) until next thursday where i will buy another weeks food, she would save herself a fortune of she would shop and eat what she has. I run my freezer down most weeks. Sometimes hubby will buy bits of hes near a nice butchers or something, but other than we buy what we eat.

Also the whole process takes me an hour and a half from start to sitting down with a cuppa. I hate dandering around shops i am in and out.
This also includes tolietries and or cleaning stuff. I buy them on constant roatation.
 
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bladiesla

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Dogrose said:
I just don’t see why it’s so ~labour intensive~ to share the meal plan. I mean, since she’s so forensic surely she does a rough meal plan before she shops? Can’t she just share that?
We’re lucky enough not to be on the bones of our a and we have a rough plan before we shop to minimise food and money waste.
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And this is what some people are paying her £44 a month for.
 
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FreezePeach

I'm not as cash strapped as when I was with small kids and only my Harold's income but I still have a meal plan in my head doing my weekly ship. I hate food waste and the only way to avoid it is to plan every single meal and snack or be willing to eat random collections of food units as I call them, with no thought to taste or preference. These £20 shops are ridiculous.
 
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Mrsoverall

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Dogrose said:
I just don’t see why it’s so ~labour intensive~ to share the meal plan. I mean, since she’s so forensic surely she does a rough meal plan before she shops? Can’t she just share that?
We’re lucky enough not to be on the bones of our a and we have a rough plan before we shop to minimise food and money waste.
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Yeah. She's got feck all else to do 🙄
 
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Valiofthedolls

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Dear Jack, thank(space)you. Turns out this performative laying out of a very small selection of your groceries and photographing them to post online

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Tin Can Crook

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I can't believe that asda would preemptively steal her work and idea, those guys. Thank goodness we have squigs to help the poors out.

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Nonah

Nonah

NellieBoo said:
That's nice dear. So you lied then? It's not a 'weekly shop' for 3 - 42 'generous meals' plus snacks? You are making people think they are doing things wrong. Stop it.
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I give it 30 seconds before either a mass delete spree or IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT I HAVE FOOD IN MY FREEZER NOT THAT IT’S ANYONES BUSINESS
 
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