Can I just add that I'm really offended that someone who is so terrible at both writing and food is somehow a professional (allegedly) FOOD WRITER.
Jack Monroe #548 Recipes that come with a side of electrocution and burnt down house for pudding
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BiB - this is incredibly obvious when you see the advert for her "I'm selling everything I own" sale - several different brands of crockery etc, I HAD A CHESTERFIELD FOR GOD'S SAKE etc etc etc. She must have spent every penny that came her way without ever imagining that a steady stream of money wouldn't be there. There's no other explanation that makes sense from her leaving the fire service in the autumn of ?2011 and being THRUST INTO THE ETERNAL DARKNESS OF POV just a couple of months later.
I wonder if her parents were despairing of her spending rather than saving anything - they do like their spenny things (watches, motorbikes) but also they strike me as people who think about money and investments, hence the property portfolio. I guess she assumed that they'd bail her out and she'd get a nice inheritance from Grandpa.
It’s an awful combination, being entitled and simultaneously thick as duck with a ton of short sightedness thrown in on top and I don’t mean she needs glasses.
Neil Shaw needs to outline how exactly 32hours equates to the 77quid figure (or whatever) in the press release he keeps rechurning out to earn his salary. Bloody charlatans everywhere.
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There is clearly something wrong with her vision though if she thinks pOrtRaIT MoDE does her any favours.
I probably only spend a max of 8 hours a week cooking so wtf is everyone doing that they can save 8 hrs?
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I think it’s more a visual processing disorder as we know she wears glasses
I do love my pressure/slow cooker combi, which in combination with my Bored of Lunch slow cooker book is 
(which I spite bought when Grifty Kitchen landed because of all the lovely Fraus raving about it, and it did not disappoint although [tw calorie counting] I am slightly sceptical of his low calorie count claims for some dishes, and think he underestimates, based on when I've put the exact recipe and amounts into MyFitnessPal when I've been doing a calorie deficit, but hey, it's a better problem than Jack's Dickensian portioning. It's not by a huge amount and nothing to fret over, it just narks me. . I would say it saves me time when I can just bung everything in it and then leave it and often get two meals worth out of minimal prep and not having to stand over a stove. Also reduces the mental load for my ND brain versus a multi-step all-in-one-go meal. But it's not that much of a time saver.
(which I spite bought when Grifty Kitchen landed because of all the lovely Fraus raving about it, and it did not disappoint although [tw calorie counting] I am slightly sceptical of his low calorie count claims for some dishes, and think he underestimates, based on when I've put the exact recipe and amounts into MyFitnessPal when I've been doing a calorie deficit, but hey, it's a better problem than Jack's Dickensian portioning. It's not by a huge amount and nothing to fret over, it just narks me. . I would say it saves me time when I can just bung everything in it and then leave it and often get two meals worth out of minimal prep and not having to stand over a stove. Also reduces the mental load for my ND brain versus a multi-step all-in-one-go meal. But it's not that much of a time saver.Just out of interest, what is 3/4hr x 7 days?! Ffs, some of this shite that journos are throwing out is just nonsensical. Even with AI assisting in the editing.
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I feel like sending him a bleeping calculator.
Always think this betrays a lack of suitable wording to describe what she does. Author? Hmm. Journalist? Nah. She produces words associated with food occasionally.
I looked back at what I wrote and 8 hours of cooking would be a very bad week for me. I’ve totally overestimated there. Unless it’s a week of jacket potatoes that refuse to go softer, I imagine 5hrs of cooking is a fairly generous guess. Everything I cook is done the fastest way possible!
Christ alive the Zingzillas! Yet another memory I had locked down in the basement of my mind alongside Roly Poly Oly and the Wiggles.
A big telly is, to borrow a phrase from those higher up the economic pyramid, "an investment." Not in money terms, because televisions lose value fast, but as you said entertainment and education. Once you've bought that TV it's yours until it breaks and you can use it regardless of weather, illness, or whether you're a bit short that week. A nice television has somehow become the go-to for "poor people spending frivolously" when it's actually delivering a lot for the price.
I might need trauma therapy
That might have been me, apologies if it was someone else but I have talked about something very similar in the far distant past. And it was a lovely day out!
Typical Narc parent. They have to out do the other parent, especially if separated.
The poor kid will almost certainly be given all gifts in front of an audience and would have to show extreme gratitude or face hell. (I speak from experience)
Personally I think this shows most in the twatty photo she posted in his tshirt that time.
Again, speaking from experience, I can almost guarantee that the following happened.
She 'gifted' the tshirt in front of others to 'prove' what a generous mother she is. The tshirt was imo very babyish for an 11/12 yo and he would've turned his nose up. Jack will have kicked off into a full scorned Narc tantrum. That's when she put it on and did those cringey photos to prove how cool she was and tried to shame the kid. She didn't get the Narc supply of adoration from the boy and whoever was there to witness it so she put it on SM for the sycophantic adoration she knew she'd get.
Poor little boy.
Remember when she threatened to sue the Express for calling her a celebrity chef?
It’s only OK to call her that if you’re paying her for a ‘talk’.
I meant to add wrt guest, it also explains the "problem drinking" - her excuse for buying the sideboards was she was pissarse drunk when she did it . Imo she got drunk because she wanted to be able to say "it wasn't my fault I bought these things".
I know what you mean. I have some credit card debt that's realistically gonna take a while to pay off and I know how that can nag at you. Mine is due partly to being freelance & therefore having unpredictable pay and tax, but also to going "lol treat urself" several too many times. I'm working on not doing that and on selling off some stuff too.
I'm not a fan of her recipes, some if them are frankly bizarre and she also has a thing about using unusual ingredients to be quirky. She had a recipe for coleslaw made with baked bean juice that made me think of jack. My friend made it, and even the mention of it now over a year later makes her retch.Oh I’m really interested in which recipes you think Nadiya’s ripped off @CabalofBolorneaise!? I’ve found her refreshingly pretty original in whatever I’ve seen her produce. I’d be disappointed if she’s “doing a guest” and just tweaking Good Food recipes
Ok i am convinced there must a shop somewhere that purely sells ' uglycrapforsuckers' where does she find some of these clothes. I wouldnt even throw them on the immersion if it was freezing, as my mum used to say.
Oh lord, that sounds dire!
Thank duck this self-righteous pissant is off social media. The arrogance is just stunning.
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