Jack Monroe #79 Big mistake. Big. HUGE.

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I don’t get how a 50 minute walk to Lidl (probably actually 5 then given this is Jack) would negate any savings she made? Does walking cost money in Jack’s strange world or something?
 
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I don’t get how a 50 minute walk to Lidl (probably actually 5 then given this is Jack) would negate any savings she made? Does walking cost money in Jack’s strange world or something?
By the time she’d walked home the veg would’ve gasped it’s last breath
 
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I don’t get how a 50 minute walk to Lidl (probably actually 5 then given this is Jack) would negate any savings she made? Does walking cost money in Jack’s strange world or something?
Don't you know her time is precious and time is money. Those 100 mins there and back not too mention the twenty mins to walk round is quite alot time she could put to better use tweeting about everything that had happened to her in her whole life twice over.
 
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Because when I think of the qualities of a typical lasagne, the first one that springs to mind is "sharp."
Be more successful using the pasta sheets as a knife and fork to eat something else rather than attempting to chew that fossil of a lasagne
 
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The single most annoying part of Jackie's know all approach to shopping and cooking is the complete lack of any attempt to shop ethically. Shitty meat, crap eggs in plastic boxes. If she got her act together and stopped racing to the bottom and going for the easy cheap shopping list she could have an actual marketable niche: ethical low cost food. But that would take some effort and improvement of her skill set, and as we know she's too busy, so I'll take my opinion and fuck off.
 
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She copied Nige with the raita.
‘Jack, it’s a tomato recipe.’
 
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Buying the yellow sticker stuff for herself makes me so mad !!!! Because she doesn't need to!!!! Does she not ever think back all those many many years ago when she had a poor 5 minutes and she went to the supermarket with her last £1 to buy something yellow stickered to feed her starving Son only to find some rich fucker had nabbed it all first? Unbelievable and selfish!
 
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That’s the next book x
 
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Who the hell rinses lentils? When cooking lentils, barley or pulses please skim off the scum as you go. No one ever taught me this / just seemed like common sense.
Actually, it’s pretty standard for south Asian and other ethnic people to rinse their lentils. You rinse until the water is no longer cloudy. We also do the same with rice.
 
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I wonder if at any point during the Dhansak Ransack she thought wtf am I doing with my life. I could be making a lovely sweet and sour veggie stir fry with this veg and pineapple, but instead I've got several pans on the go boiling shredded veg into submission, killing any nutritional value it had left.

I hope she had a moment of clarity, but I doubt it.
 
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Morning you hateful little lot. How are we doing?
I use this app! Last week I got a bunch of stuff from my local bakery for £2. Gave a pastry to a stressed neighbour and popped the rest in the freezer. They are perfectly fine after defrosting. You can even make cheapo bread and butter pudding with old croissants
 
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I love making a savoury bake with old croissants, cheese and ham in sliced croissants, then baked in a dish with milk and eggs poured over. Of course Jack would probably turn the croissants into some sort of weird lentil filled dim sum.
 
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Dhansak Ransack. That has to be a new recipe title for her.
 
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