My friend's Jack-like wife is like this, but she at least has some level of self awareness that her adult life post education has amounted to very little (which is why she is always over compensating/trying way too hard). However, if you challenge her bragging/bullshit, she crumbles PDQ.The problem with our pumbling pixie is that because she tries to elevenrife everything, she forgets that usually there is always someone who knows more.... ( normally its tattle tbf) she seems to live under this impression that she is the most clever, well read, lived person that ever lived and feels like by sharing her 'vast' knowlege that she is somehow improving the country/ world. Someone needs to sit her down and tell her that clever people normally admit they are always learning.
The commenters on that post are all “of a type” (to put it politely)Is the horsey lasagna among the choices here? Esp if Xanthe is determined to diss on guest.
HahahahahaThe commenters on that post are all “of a type” (to put it politely)
Jack Monroe mostly eats with a spoon these days.Just piping in here after a few vinos:
1) do foodies usually eat lasagne with a spoon?
Of course you do, petal. How's Jasper's fencing coming along?Hahahahaha
The prep advice on ready meals often says to pierce the film lid then place them on a plate in the microwave.2) why leave it in the packaging if you’re going to put it on a plate?
Wait, wait, wait..... Shoestring you say, Jack? So why the fuck did you brand yourself as bootstrap then?!!!!From Patreon. Correct me if I’m wrong, but today not one thing here is true:
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Shop-bought & fingered?As well as horse spunk lasagne we had lasagne with a prison shiv sticking out of it, and pork lasagne made with pints of water, am I forgetting any?
Ok this Xanthe Clay sounds like a right twat. Didn’t know she championed Jack so Thankspaceyou for your continued education on all things Jack related dear CanalHahahahaha
Ah that’s when she fibbed to Ol’ Xanthe in 2013 to show off. Sokay tho. She “cleared it up once and for all” seven and a half years later in Potatoes. When “her Wikipedia” said she had 7. That’s cos you told Xanthe Clay you had 7, you fucking fantasist liar.
The costings rarely work, IME. Either they do a Jack and cost 1/10th of an onion or they do a Xanthe and stealth bulk buying because they present a per person cost you can only get when cooking for a family of four with leftovers.I had to find this article in its entirety (no Torygraph paywall for me) and it's here:
I understand the points ninnies are making with regard to Jack. Xanthe Clay is an accomplished food writer with many years' experience and she has a better attitude to research and recipe testing than Jack, for sure.
However, my hackles were raised immediately by the blurb for this piece saying you could eat healthily and maybe lose weight for £26/ week.
A very clickbaity approach that, when you read on, is just more of the same claptrap about budget cooking that so many other middle class food writers spout.
For one thing, she claims this is a full 7-day mealplan but the economics don't quite add up.
For breakfast, she suggests baking your own bread but then she doesn't cost any other ingredients like the eggs she recommends you eat it with.
Likewise, she suggests making your own yoghurt -- okay, that's fine at a push -- but then doesn't cost the fruit and toppings she suggests to make it more interesting.
Also, the £26 is supposed to be for one person but all the recipes are for 4 people. So, if you're one or two people in a household, these costings don't work. Unless you bake one loaf and only eat a quarter of it over a week's breakfasts and lunches. Really?
A lot of what she's proposing involves making things from scratch -- bread, yoghurt, stocks etc -- which isn't great for people who are time poor or who have limited cooking facilities (like I do, in shitty temporary accommodation). And, while she loves organic homemade yoghurt, she wants us to all give up meat except for turkey legs because organic, free range is too costly. You have to run your oven a lot to bake bread, roast turkey and beetroot too.
There's nothing much here for harassed family cooks catering for fussy eaters. No suggestions about how to swop out ingredients that are increasingly unaffordable (like butter or olive oil). No sweets or snacks at all. Just a lot of overnight oats, lentils and abstemiousness. No convenience foods like baked beans that really help to stretch budgets and fill tummies.
Her point about weight loss? This isn't supported at all by what she's recommending here -- just clickbait to lure you into the article.
She's not giving Monroesque absurd economics of costing half an onion and a teaspoon of spice but there's no real substance here and little understanding of what it takes to eat well on very little money.
This is just one more middle class foodie telling the povs to eat turkey legs and lentils every day. I'd lose weight too if I had to face that.
Sorry, Xanthe, I'm out.
I can't believe you forgot the unholy creation that was her cheesy fish finger lasagne, tenderstem.As well as horse spunk lasagne we had lasagne with a prison shiv sticking out of it, and pork lasagne made with pints of water, am I forgetting any?
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