Jack Monroe #559 Untitled Jack Monroe Memoir

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No wonder you can "feed three people on £20 a week" if you've already got an entire Asda in your cupboards and your three freezers!

It also comes across as saying poor people would be fine if they knew how to make a shopping list, the feckless idiots. They've been buying extra pasta and wasting their money on a tin of beans that they don't even need because they have a crate of them in one of their spare music rooms, no doubt!
 
Five hundred dogs said:
Under the spoiler is the quarter hack (it makes me cringe just typing that) in all its absolutely tedious glory from Grifty Kitchen. She’s managed to pad it out to nearly three pages and it’s as patronising as you’d expect, at one point she actually says “if you’re running low on fruit and veg pick up some of that”.
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the thing is, when you read the first page of this alone, it's very very clear she doesn't actually NEED anything from the shops, does she? if she has something that's in all of those food groups for say, the next day, two days or three, then all she needs is bread and milk. i get that isn't practical for everyone and many people don't live close to shops that they can just 'nip out' to. But realistically if she has things in all of those categories then she can go with what she has for a few more days.
 
houseofhoop said:
For someone who says cooking is her job, she buys an awful lot of pre prepared sauces in jars ( bolognaise sauce, curry sauce tikka sauce etc) nothing wrong with prepared sauces but seriously… buying a prepared bolognaise sauce… it’s meant to be your job mate!!
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A good ragu is easy and so much nicer than anything in a jar if you have time to do it, which she so very clearly does.

She can be silent forever but the wealth of material revealing what an unmitigated twit she is is endless.
 
I really feel that Carole Tonkinson bears a lot of responsibility for the career ending binfire that was Grifty Kitchen. We saw on twitter how she enabled and encouraged the production of this absolute balderdash.

Surely a good editor and more importantly a supposed friend would have advised guest better to make sure she didn't publish such a waste of paper.

Having said that, guest was probably so far past deadline that Carole was willing to accept any old dog crap, which she did.
 
Five hundred dogs said:
Under the spoiler is the quarter hack (it makes me cringe just typing that) in all its absolutely tedious glory from Grifty Kitchen. She’s managed to pad it out to nearly three pages and it’s as patronising as you’d expect, at one point she actually says “if you’re running low on fruit and veg pick up some of that”.
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No, Guest. Just no. For a start we know you have no friends and if you did (which you don’t) none of them, none, would come up with ‘Quarterhack’. If anything, people would just stare, looking confused, and if you took their utterances as the name of your system it would be called the ‘whatthefuck’.

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SouthendRealEstate said:
Christ, on the bottom right, in the column which is ‘Snacks’ but also ‘Ingredients’ and, as inexplicable as an egg, ‘Meals’, there’s an entry that says ‘Freezer surprise’. Imagine what that could include from her cold pit of despair. Out of date fish? The decaying remnants of a goat leg? The mind boggles. 🤢

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I do love freezer jumble for tea though!
A hash brown, steam veg, quorn southern fried burger and masked 🥕potato, what’s not to love?
 
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VeniVidiVicki said:
When you read GK, it’s blindingly obvious that 50% of the content is filler. I really hope Carole’s abject failure to edit it stains her career. It bloody should.
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The worst thing is the padding is the part she’s proudest of. She really does think coming up with stuff like the quarter hack or use old jars to store screws in is her superpower. When you read the hacks in Grifty Kitchen it’s blatantly obvious that most of them aren’t things she actually does, it’s more like she goes through her recycling pile and tries to come up with things that could be done with it. That’s how we get the stupid egg ring from a pineapple tin hack.
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HotesTilaire said:
I do love freezer jumble for tea though!
A hash brown, steam veg, quorn southern fried burger and masked potato, what’s not to love?
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Freezer jumble 😂, we call it “beige smorgasbord”.
 
Don'tlookEthel said:
Last year the DWP decided I wasn't dying quickly enough and stopped my PIP which had knock on effects to all my other benefits and my income dropped by around a grand a month, I have 2 dependents. I was SKINT, I mean really skint, skintness I hadn't known since sitting in the dark eating cereal with warm flakey milk when my dad was out of work in the 90s. I've always been good at budgeting and living on little thanks to my poverty apprenticeship in the 90s, I needed tips that went beyond "buy own brand" (that bbc1 prog with gregg wallace drives me mad) and despite knowing Jack was unhinged, when I saw an article with her latest money saving tip I raced to it to find the bleeping quarter hack, I genuinely couldn't work out if I'd misunderstood it, there had to be more to it than 'list what you already have in a convoluted way '? I read it a number of times over a few days. Concluded she'd run out of ideas and was trying to cling to her position of chief povvo!
Ps I went to tribunal and got my PIP back, DWP are cruel cruel fucks
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I truly am so sorry you had to experience that xxx

PS your profile pic reminded me of one particularly great day in the canal when a frau disclosed they once got off with Gail Platt. I think it was around then I came out of lurkdom; I knew I had found my people 🧡
 
Nonah said:
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Who’s going to tell him? 😬
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Probably already been said but ...... Steve mate, because she's a tax evading fraudulent 🛎🔚 who has taken tens of thousands of pounds intended for charity for her own pocket and spent on drink drugs and sideboards, by her own admission? She's a lying fraudster but this wouldn't necessarily rule her out as an MP unfortunately, but her sheer laziness and incompetence would.
You're a fool Steve mate and if you actually believe Jack is fit for government, you deserve to be living in the mess of your own making 🙄
 
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