Jack Monroe #541 First do no honk
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Never shop pre-menstrually or you'll end up with a trolley full of carbs and have to go back for actual dinner ingredients.
Thank you tenderpresident
All good points @ForgettyBetty
In my personal budget, I've had to give up salmon and have massively reduced the amount of cheese I eat. And I no longer buy wine (which makes me immensely sad because I rarely eat out and never drink wine in the pub).
I used to post on Twitter quite a bit
about the challenges of living on benefits. Once, I complained about the astronomical price of cheese and a sympathetic person reached out to me and sent me a voucher for a fancy cheesemonger. That was quite a day! And my one and only accidental social media grift.I’m hoping I can just lure in enough amazon drivers to reduce my petfood bills atm…we don’t have pets but keep getting hopeful random scrawny wildlife critterlings turning up opportunistically.
Cheese prices seem to have gone absolutely crazy recently. I think I’m going to have to go to the park and wait for a dealer to pop up.
Salmon is a bit pricey really, but a) I have an autoimmune thing and b) am really gullible and overoptimistic, so as soon as I read about the Next Amazing Thing that’ll magically cure it, I leap on the bandwagon for a few weeks until I get disillusioned and move onto trying Epsom Salts or Mammoth Collagen instead…
Mmmmmmm, stolen sweaty underpants cheese, yummmmm
I'm still confused by the bodyguard reference unless she thinks everyone with a shaved head is a hard man in the same way that tv directors think working class women aggressively chew chewy at all times. This was around the time she was talking about her rolodex of muscle wasn't it, the beggy desperado.
Called nob cheese round my way, the girls are only busy here near pancake day with the fanny batter. Although some do battered fish .Mmmmmmm, stolen sweaty underpants cheese, yummmmm
Have we had “The Beggy Desperado” for thread title yet? It feels like we should.
My friend's daughter will only eat one specific pasta shape that is only available in the premium brands (won't say specifically because
a friend is unfair). The not basics/hubbards sains pasta I get has risen from 70p/500g to 75p/500g and the premium brand one has gone from £1.50 to £2.I also think a lot of people don't realise that Tesco and Sainsburys now price match Aldi on a lot of basics and as well as that some basket comparisons have form for comparing Aldi Essentials with Tesco/Sains/Asda etc Regular Brand (or Aldi regular brand with eg Heinz) so it's not actually an even comparison.
In my experience neither Aldi or Lidl is now that much cheaper like for like than the bigger supermarkets and while having only the one option for most things does stop people pricing up and being tempted by a brand the flip side is that if they don't have something you really need you're going to have to go to another supermarket. Whereas in the bigger ones, in most cases you can price up and save another trip (time saving and also often money saving in terms of petrol/public transport costs getting somewhere else).
Recipe pls!"Beany Pie" is still a staple fave
What about her private adhd meds she buys every month, though?
Theres no way she wouldn’t breadcrumb her basal temp stats or summat, show a pineapple with clear blues and pink sticks in it, ask “for a friend” about hormone injections. Nah. And she’d let people believe it’s on the NHS.
Ivf is heavy dough compared with private prescriptions though. I don't know if it's different rules for different health authorities but my mate had successful ivf on NHS so she wasn't entitled to any further rounds- she'd have had to pay. So I don't know if she'd even get it on the NHS with already having had a child.
What’s the opposite of a grunk? Where you just skip a few pages, hope for the best, and just dive on in (ir)regardless(ly) with your mithering (pronounced ‘mithering’)?
I feel it needs a name.
I feel it needs a name.
Grunking, but.... It would probably need to involve pitchforks. Either so everybody has an allotment and we reduce food miles (suspect some of the uplift in prices involves diesel for deliveries and farming), or we all go a bit Guy Fawkes in Westminster and Whitehall. There may be other options.... Obvs.Still thinking about supermarket pricesif there is a diagnosed gifted Frau who knows about this I’d love to know more. Is it inevitable that price increases will affect those on lowest incomes the most? Because anyone who is currently making more expensive retail choices has the option to trade down to basics and cut things out, but those who have already done that have no choice left but to bear price increases. If that’s the case what is the VBI meant to do? What policy could change that situation?
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How would she even know if the expensive ranges are going up if she never buys them and hasn't asked/researched those who do?
Thinking about it, the last time guest tweeted was the comparatively modest humblebrag after Green Belt and before that was July when she went off on her fruit pastilles Barbie movie adventures. Even though we're counting the silences, it's good to be reminded that her social media engagement has fallen off a cliff in the last year.
Nobody knows what she's been up to and nobody cares, except us. It's very heartening to realise this.
Nobody knows what she's been up to and nobody cares, except us. It's very heartening to realise this.
Has no expert ever pulled her up on this absolute whopper of a mistake?
People have mithered about her bleeping up her exams because she’s lazy, I put it to you that it’s solely because she is a bit thick (on top of a huge ego).
Radiators ahoy!
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