In the same article:Oh lol, it's like Asda are trolling her!
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Asda announces huge changes to the price of food at UK supermarkets
Popular products from the 'Free From' range will now be much cheaperwww.cambridge-news.co.uk
Exactly. She lies about everything for attention. 2 plus 2 equals 79 in her world.I'm aware of Jack, I know 'of' her & this thread, I've scrolled through it a few times so I have the measure of her. Whilst scrolling through Twitter when doing the night feed, she had been retweeted or liked so appeared on my timeline so I fell down the rabbit hole of reading down her feed. I hate to be 'that person' as I haven't avidly read all the posts on here - but why is she claiming to be so poor ? Wasn't she in a relationship with a fairly well known tv personality, as I would say Jack is herself ? For someone who is in her position - tv cook, published books etc, £20 a week for a food shop seems very odd.
Also, I would sell the clothes of my back & all my belongings (including my expensive smart phone & digital radios!) before I served my children a constant diet of 'cooking' bacon, cheap sausages & kidney bean curry !! I
Does her long & complex list of ailments include a personality disorder ? As this just seems attention seeking & woe is me as it just doesn't add up at all !
"Austerity's poster girl"An acquaintance of mine was arguing the exact same thing recently about fast fashion, and her right to buy 3€ T-shirts. I had to walk away. There is so much human suffering so that we in the affluent parts of the West can enjoy cheap shit.
I found this old article:
Austerity’s poster girl Jack Monroe, and a storm over her very
Jack Monroe began blogging on cooking meals for pennies when her weekly food budget was under a tenner. Here she tells Richard Godwin about turning her life around with dirt-cheap chilliwww.standard.co.uk
Which is very very funny because it opens with There isn’t much furniture in Jack Monroe’s flat in Southend-on-Sea. How times have changed.
But also, this telling bit:
Jamie Oliver just can’t match that. She points out that in his recent book, Save With Jamie, all of his recipes call for Uncle Ben’s rice. “That’s not really a money-saver, is it? If you really cared about saving money you’d pay 40p a kilo for long-grain rice. I’ve been approached countless times by various brands like that. I wouldn’t rule it out — I do need to earn money. But I couldn’t endorse anything that wasn’t the best possible value.”
Except that it's not about value, it's purely about price. She will never, ever go, "This cheese is 30p more but has more flavour so you can use less of it." She'll go, "30p??? Where are you getting 30p from, Tory?!"
I don't think I've ever eaten Uncle Ben's rice, but it has its place. If you don't know how to cook rice and you're worried about ruining ingredients, it's a starting point. If you have a little more money but a lot less time, convenience food can help. Plus, using those ingredients at first is a good way of gradually becoming confident in the kitchen and more capable of cooking for yourself. There are always nuances. She never sees them.
I am with you. She spends her money as it rolls it, Why did she see the need to save when she had wealthy (or relatively wealthy) partners to pay for the boring stuff and plan for the future. We all know people like that, lovely homes but live with credit card debt to the max, and payday to payday.I honestly would be surprised if she has savings. I think a lot of them have been spunked on Cotswold Co, Edinburgh trips, various high end white goods and electronics, kitten vet appointments, Ocado deliveries, the list goes on.
Very true and I think most of us are probably guilty of that to some extent. We've had such a huge shift in what we value in our society over a relatively short space of time. We might want airpods and sideboards and Vivienne Westwood dresses, but we don't need any of that stuff.Truth three: a lifestyle that prioritises excessive material consumption over food quality is fucked up, and this is exactly what Jack represents, and why she winds us up quite so much.
Yes she does. Whenever anyone criticises her she throws the ADHD back at people and in the process reinforces negative stereo types about ADHD behaviours. Several posters here actually have ADHD and often highlight how Jack is making a mockery of the condition and the genuine people who have it.I don’t know a whole lot about her as a person other than I really don’t like her. Does she by any chance have any “chronic illnesses”? I say “chronic illnesses” because there’s two types of people in this world. People with chronic illnesses and people with “chronic illnesses” and my god I’ve known a few. She seems the type to have a Tumblr and list all her ailments in her bio. “GERD WARRIOR” I get wild heartburn too hun. Survivor.
I would imagine what happened is that she caught up on here, and read us all condemning her for her shittyWhat in the name of fuck is she going on about on Twitter? About the chicken wings? It went from 0-100 real fast. “Oh I’m stripping down some chicken wi...I AM NOT HERE TO JUSTIFY MY ETHICS. YOU ARE SWIRLING OVER ME LIKE VULTURES”
I did this with her lentil thing last week.. I had to add so much just to make it edible.I am willing to take the hit and make this mushroom soup exactly as how she has written the recipe later this week! I will report back.
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