Jack Monroe #301 Jack Monroe Cheap and Cheerless

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can i just echo earlier posters by saying how annoying it is that someone who thinks cooking is such a chore gets paid to be a recipe writer?! i went to a hen party last weekend and offered to cook the dinner for 15 people (including blurst beans!) - i loved being in the kitchen for hours with a glass of wine and having people come in and chat to me while i prepared everything. how can anyone who follows on her twitter want to buy her book i’ll never understand…her hatred of cooking is so obvious
 
Cucumberthunder said:
Her response to that pants comment shows she has no idea about autism.

My husband's cousin's son (close family so not as distant as it sounds) has autism and is now 10 and it's almost impossible to consistently get him to wear clothes. At home he is in his pants. At school he wears very specific clothes and still tries to strip off. They can barely go on a day out as a family in case he has a breakdown over his clothes. They only come to a select few family events for that reason.

As a 1 year old liking being naked is cute. As he gets to 13/15+ it's downright dangerous. His mum is terrified about him exposing himself when he gets older and getting in trouble with the police, or beaten up etc. The school are confident that with work they will get to a place where he'll be happy in clothes. But it's not about just liking being in your pants ffs.
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Completely agree. We had lots of students in our provision who didn’t wear uniform but their own clothes/had thunder vests on under uniform/wore sports compression clothing instead of or under their uniform. But that wasn’t a fix-all and as you say there were still challenges regarding those clothes.

As we always say here, you meet a person with autism, you have met one person with autism.

She is such a danger with stereotyping conditions- there is not one she touches that is free. It is baffling how she continues to get away with it.
 
Into_the_tunnel said:
Ina wasn’t formally trained in cooking.

Just saying. Obviously there are other examples, but if I can mention Ina, I will.
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For years, Ina has been my depression TV distraction. I don't have to focus too much, she's warm, comforting and easy to watch. Just gentle, feel good TV with no triggers.

Imagine watching Jack? With her nasal voice whining away, gross descriptions of food, and slop. No doubt peppered with self indulgent snippets of The Poverty woes and gloom. I'd rather watch the bloody news, it'd be more cheering.
 
blurstoftimes said:
why does she keep pushing people to use sunflower oil, i suppose she hasn’t meticulously transcribed any news from Ukraine recently
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It's odd, because she herself trotted it out at least twice as a part of cost of living rises.

Yesterday, all my sunflower oil troubles seemed so far away...

As for make up artist trowel compliment fishing, don't worry Jack, just ask them to bring the wobble head filter and you'll be fine
 
TbilisiPeach said:
Icing sugar - yep, that tip works. It's been doing the rounds for ages. However, you need to own a blender. And the only way it truly saves you money (rather than a few pennies) is if you bake regularly. Home baking is tasty, but it's one of those things where it often is much cheaper to buy ready made from a shop. You could never bake biscuits from scratch for 39p for a whole packet. Or bake a ginger cake for £1. If it's all about budgeting, the best advice would be to buy baked goods.
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I’m catching up so don’t know where this will land! And I’m sure someone may have said this but.. guess who highlighted you could do this about two years ago on their cooking show when some ingredients were hard to come by because of panic buying… oh! That’s right.. THAT MAN did on his lockdown cooking show. Once again, making out she is just really maverick but hasn’t got an original thought in her head 🙄
 
I tend to go through phases (okay, decades) of only wanting to wear one colour apart from black or white. Dunno why. I’m just emerging from my grey phase into a sage green phase.
The way she talks about ADHD and autism makes me not want to go for my assessment for the former. That said anything makes me not want to go to anything because I’m an idiot.
 
DisgruntledGoat said:
I’d just like to add in a gloating “nyaaahahahaha” at her publishers not considering her enough of a name to allocate any wardrobe budget for the shoot for a cover. Guess this is what happens when you’re over a year late on submitting the manuscript and your last book sold about 3000 copies.
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Not only that, but Jack seems to be doing all the cooking? I thought most recipe book shoots involved home economists and food stylists doing all the work, only for the author to turn up and smile next to some dishes?
 
Lucky her being able to afford to buy three identical items at a time.

I'm a chronically early person. I don't sleep at all well when I know I *have* to get up for something. I set loads of alarms out of fear. I wear a kind of uniform because I know my style and what suits me, and what suits my messy life. I have ADHD but I don't recognise myself in her depiction of it. Her problem is immaturity, not ADHD.
 
Cucumberthunder said:
Her response to that pants comment shows she has no idea about autism.

My husband's cousin's son (close family so not as distant as it sounds) has autism and is now 10 and it's almost impossible to consistently get him to wear clothes. At home he is in his pants. At school he wears very specific clothes and still tries to strip off. They can barely go on a day out as a family in case he has a breakdown over his clothes. They only come to a select few family events for that reason.

As a 1 year old liking being naked is cute. As he gets to 13/15+ it's downright dangerous. His mum is terrified about him exposing himself when he gets older and getting in trouble with the police, or beaten up etc. The school are confident that with work they will get to a place where he'll be happy in clothes. But it's not about just liking being in your pants ffs.
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Absolutely this. I've worked with lots of autistic children, some of whom you wouldn't know were on the spectrum without spending time with and some who displayed clear signs - none verbal, spinning, agitation, not being able to abide clothing, labels, fabric or even bedding in very severe cases. Autism is a spectrum for a reason. Each individual is so very unique. This cherry-picking appropriation of autistic 'quirks' makes be shudder. She is vile and her language is demeaning at best and damaging at worst.
 
Into_the_tunnel said:
Ina wasn’t formally trained in cooking.

Just saying. Obviously there are other examples, but if I can mention Ina, I will.
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Pretty sure that Nigella Lawson has no formal training either. On the other hand, every morning I slice a banana to have with my kefir and
granola
using the technique I learned from a Jamie Oliver programme on cooking on holiday with limited equipment, using the banana skin instead of a chopping board. And then I put the banana skin in the compost bin, where it belongs.
 
It's interesting that, having not mentioned Savers Squad at all during its run, she's now crowing left right and centre about having a 'slot' on an unnamed morning show. Almost like she didn't want people to actually see it but was looking forward to it finishing so she could retcon its importance.
 
WTFDidIJustSee said:
I have multiple alarms to get me up in the morning, none of them are any of my children (pain meds can sometimes make me sleep through just 1 alarm so my watch, phone and the HomePod all have alarms set - I have been known to forget to charge my watch and/or phone before bed hence the 3).

My feet hit the floor a good 30 mins before theirs do.

It’s hardly exclusive to ND people to be unable to sleep when nervous or anxious, there she goes again, appropriating normal behaviour for her hashtag bollocks.

Yes I know some ND folks who have a wardrobe of The Same Items (middle sprog does) but again it’s not something everyone does.

When I tit post, I always include “Anyone else or nah?” as it encourages people who don’t have the same quirk to post and therefore we can discuss the differences. Cos we don’t all live the same experience.
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She just uses it all in place of a personality. My wife is autistic and I am not, unless my parents have been hiding my diagnosis, but it's me with the wardrobe full of the same stuff just because it's useful for work and I know what looks good on me. However I may have ADHD and so far this morning I've had to open Gmail four times because I kept getting distracted by other emails and then forgetting about the one I needed to find, and I've totally lost the PS3 controller I got from my Dad last week. It is not quirky it's just bleeping annoying.
 
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