£10 a week food shop' girl. - Jack Monroe

Valli

This is a link to A Girl Called Jack's blog

would be particularly useful for anyone on a tight budget who needs some cheap and filling meal ideas

(and the rest of her blog has some inspirational thoughts and posts)

calleyw

And she now has a book deal, is due to be published next year.

Good on her.

Yours

Calley

Valli

calleyw wrote: »

And she now has a book deal, is due to be published next year.

Good on her.

Yours

Calley

I particularly enjoyed her open letter to George Osborne.
:T

Frugalista

I thought there was already a thread about this?

ETA: Here we go - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4571337

Valli

oops - shall ask for thread to be merged/deleted

wow - psychic BG got to my wee thread before I got round to sending a PM

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Bless her she has just won an award from the Fortnum & Masons food and drink show Good luck to her

honeythewitch

JackieO wrote: »

Bless her she has just won an award from the Fortnum & Masons food and drink show Good luck to her

Oh! Good for her.

joedenise

Tried her mushroom chasseur the night before last and it's really tasty, even DH cleared his plate without too much moaning (he's a real carnivore and likes his meat & 2 veg, LOL).

Wasn't enough for 4 adult portions but would do 2 adults and 2 little ones. We're having the leftover chasseur over jacket potatoes tonight.

Denise

antw23uk

I've just found this thread and been reading her blog all afternoon (sorry boss!) and im inspired
I've done my food shop for next week and it came to a total of £20.60 but then i added a £3 click and collect because the way i see it i would spend a lot more than £3 if i actually went into the shop
I added fresh herbs to that as all mine are still growing and not ready to harvest which bumped the price up and i've also added chicken thighs and a turkey leg to the order as my OH is a carnivor through and through and the only way to trial this is if i have atleast a couple of meals with meat in them. I've just remembered they are on lates next week so will have a chance to try this out without the moaning but will still keep the meat in :T
Menu plan as follows -
Monday – Turkey curry with apricots and coriander naan (I added the naan bread)
Tuesday – Carrot, cumin and kidney bean burger with salad
Wednesday – Gigantes Plaki (Butterbean Mediterranean stew!)
Thursday – Spring piggy with chicken thighs (use one chicken thigh and freeze remaining!)
Friday – OMG dinner – See A Girl Called Jack for recipe
I've also brought value bread rolls and value ham for lunches and im very fortunate to have an excellent store cupboard full. If i can get away with feeding myself breakfast, lunch and dinners for next week for £20 I will be so happy ... and relieved because I'm so skint right now

kittycat204

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jack-monroe-who-fed-son-1897691

just in case anybody wanted to put a face to the name and read more about her.