Jack Monroe #78 All of your food is brown
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When I lived in the UK there used to be a TV show about people trying to get their products into supermarkets or high street chains.
A bit like Dragon's Den but for food. It's always stuck with me that it seemed to be seriously difficult with very, very, many, many hoops to jump through.
jack if you sell the Tracy Emin hanging in your bathroom you could buy enough moisturiser for an entire lifetime! Youāre welcome
Microsoft paperclip!! Ah gold
So true too, all the doggo/catto/brendas get completely ignored but if Marcus is tagged sheās on it like a flash.
Once again about 6 months behind the rest of the country, most of us have been terrified of what is happening to the economy not on Harrods.com
She really needs to find another high profile media/food industry lesbian to lure in otherwise her professional future is looking very bleak indeed
Plus the downside of absolutely raking it in is her quarterly VAT & a plethora of other taxes will be due soon
Likely whatās causing the sudden frugality, think she hit this problem last year looking at her accounts.
Ah, thank you. Itās basically a bag of Quorn mince, 1 leek, 1 courgette, 2 carrots, 2 tins of tomatoes, mixed herbs, 1 tin of baked beans, 500ml of vegetable stock, vegetable granules to thicken, salt, garlic, a smidge of chilli flakes to taste and a reasonable amount of black pepper.
Slowly cook vegetables until softened, add garlic and chilli, add Quorn mince. Cook out for about 5 minutes then add tomatoes, mixed herbs and stock. Add seasonings to taste and granules to your preferred thickness. Sorry, not very good at writing down recipes as I usually just make them up as I go along.
I made a variation of this recipe up (sorry Jack) in 1996 when I left home for the first time and itās been a mainstay ever since. I usually serve with mashed potatoes, perfect for how autumnal it was yesterday.
Aldi beauty products are cruelty free, mostly vegan and their moisturiser is around Ā£1.50. Superdrug has a cheap, fully vegan range. She's an idiot.
Sheās realised that any further TV opportunities are few and far between after spunking the Ā£10,000+ she earned over lockdown, which would have been quite handy in a savings account right now. Still, at least she has a nice sideboard to lie on.
Um I think youāre forgetting the groundbreaking avant garde YouTube cooking show that Jack bravely wrote, directed, starred in and edited all under the witness protection program
She needs to be upfront about her current high standard of living now, people still think she's slumming it and those kind and generous people who are offering to buy her stuff are probably the ones who are paying X amount on her Patreon. (which incidentally now stands at 289 people contributing to her income).
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A zillion reasons why. Yeah, and we know what they are-scarf, Burberry jackets, sentient mirror, hammock, pizza oven, sideboards, air pods, water rower, phones etc etc.
Also thought she bought things like the Burberry coats so she could flog them later if she wanted cash? What you waiting for jack? If youāre slyly inferring that you canāt afford basics like bus fare & moisturiser you could do that-or use some of the money from your ābestselling booksā, work as a āfood consultantā, tip jar, patreon etc?
All that twee, flowery language & she acts as though she doesnāt understand the implied meanings of her tweets-namely that people just swallow the image of urchin Jack & bung her more cash to spend on shite.
Also thought she bought things like the Burberry coats so she could flog them later if she wanted cash? What you waiting for jack? If youāre slyly inferring that you canāt afford basics like bus fare & moisturiser you could do that-or use some of the money from your ābestselling booksā, work as a āfood consultantā, tip jar, patreon etc?
All that twee, flowery language & she acts as though she doesnāt understand the implied meanings of her tweets-namely that people just swallow the image of urchin Jack & bung her more cash to spend on shite.
Sheās setting herself up for another beg.
What has she actually done? I know she reels off a long list of her activism efforts, but what has she achieved?
Donated (at her followers expense) some books to food banks, but can any of these receivers say that her books have actually been helpful for them in their situation? Would it not have been better to donate money or food instead? Or actually work long term to finding a way into government to combat some of the issues that results in food poverty? Like that man has campaigned long term for better school meals and Marcus is now campaigning to help support low income families, but what has Jack done except twit about on twitter? There seem to be more articles written about her than her mission. Her projects donāt always align with the big picture... what is she actually doing to warrant being so up her own arse?
Ets - AND of sheās so passionate about poverty how could she really spunk all her money on fancy items? If she has had that much disposable income why not use it to ensure sheās comfortable in life and not terrified of being in poverty again? Or she could donate cash herself to help people?
How many tins of beans could you buy instead of a Ā£400 hammock?
itās like the vegan thing? Once you become vegan for ethical reasons you couldnāt go back to eating animal products, especially poor quality ones. You just couldnāt, your morals wouldnāt allow you to.
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Wikipedia is a good starting point if you want a basic gist of a topic you dont know anything about, plus their reference lists are normally quite useful for links to studies and such (especially if its one of the highly locked down and well moderated subjects, wikipedia isnt as much of a wild west as it used to be sadly/thankfully) but its absolutely just that - the very STARTING point of getting info on a topic.
She should have read those on day one then started her proper actual research. This book is going to be terrible, i hope she delays it to do the research needed to do the topic justice. Otherwise it will just be overly simple, often wrong/unable to back up its point, and at least 50% fiction where jackie gets autobiographical. I find that a great deal more offensive than a sloppy cookbook
People are still offering her things and sheās ever so sanctimoniously telling them to give them away and she would hate to think of things going to her instead of others.
why on earth would squiggle want money saving hacks from someone who has published 6 books, appeared on TV, had a food column in the guardian yet still can apparently only afford to live off of eyelid sausages and smart price beans?!
I would actually have some respect for her if she said āpeople your offers to buy me stuff is (very very) incredibly kind, but listen up, Iām actually good for money at the moment, I can afford stuff but Iām just trying to be a bit frugal and budget. I know many of you are in a much more difficult financial situation than me. For those who arenāt I think your money would be better put to use at a food bank. That would make me feel so much better.ā
Instead she infers sheās poor for āmany reasonsā and like the little street urchin martyr she likes to portray sheās like ādonāt worry about poor old me not having stuff, just give food to food banks in my honour, Iāll manage to limp along, I may die of hunger but I know (many many) will be saved as a result of my sufferingā
Sheās done this because nobody on her list of celebrity helpers is begging and pleading poverty like she does and she recognises she has done zero for the cause so this is her gift forgoing gifts from deluded fans. Reminds me of the big TV charity shows like children in need when manager of Tesco store Stoke comes on with a big cheque and they say āTesco store Stoke donates Ā£xā. No fuxkers your customers donated whilst they also lined your pockets buying your products!
Soz for rant!
Insufferable twit!
Instead she infers sheās poor for āmany reasonsā and like the little street urchin martyr she likes to portray sheās like ādonāt worry about poor old me not having stuff, just give food to food banks in my honour, Iāll manage to limp along, I may die of hunger but I know (many many) will be saved as a result of my sufferingā
Sheās done this because nobody on her list of celebrity helpers is begging and pleading poverty like she does and she recognises she has done zero for the cause so this is her gift
forgoing gifts from deluded fans. Reminds me of the big TV charity shows like children in need when manager of Tesco store Stoke comes on with a big cheque and they say āTesco store Stoke donates Ā£xā. No fuxkers your customers donated whilst they also lined your pockets buying your products!Soz for rant!
Insufferable twit!
Those leeks arenāt diagonal!
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