Jack Monroe Quotes

Jack Monroe

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 17, 1988

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education.

Jack Monroe

Actually if you were to buy a bag of dried lentils it would cost you a couple of quid. Some people don't have that to spend in the first place. And not everyone wants to eat lentils.

Jack Monroe

Because I'm in the media quite a lot now, everyone assumes that everything is fine. People forget I sleep on a mattress on the floor with my son in a house I share with five other people.

Jack Monroe

When I was at my lowest point I had a lot of help from charities, food banks, to see me through so it is nice to start to give something back.

Jack Monroe

I had such a run of bad luck that you lose faith that good things are going to happen any more. I still don't answer the door because I went through so long expecting it to be a bailiff.

Jack Monroe

I'm very careful with the money I have, I pay myself the living wage, and I try to save the rest, because if life has taught me one thing it's that you never know what is around the corner.

Jack Monroe

I left home at 18, I thought I knew everything. It was fun for a while and then it wasn't fun any more.

Jack Monroe

Tinned food can be cheaper than buying fresh stuff. Things like tinned carrots, tinned potatoes, mushy peas make a good base for a soup.

Jack Monroe

I think the thing about cooking from tins for me that I really enjoyed was... the convenience of it, the slight entertainment side of it. Just the surprise of being able to crack open a couple of tins, pour them into a pan, and 15 minutes later you've got a fantastic dinner on the table.

Jack Monroe

If you consider each individual tin as just the building block for a larger recipe, it doesn't really make much difference whether it comes from a tin, or whether it's fresh because it's just being used in a lot of other things.

Jack Monroe

You can pretty much make anything with a base of tinned tomatoes. If I don't have tinned tomatoes in my cupboard, I start to panic - it's a genuine thing.

Jack Monroe

I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum.

Jack Monroe

I was a young mother with a dependent. I went from nice flat and fire service job to cold and hungry with a child. I lived rough for two years, with six months relying on the food bank.

Jack Monroe

I live in a world where I want everyone to be able to put beurre blanc on the table for dinner.

Jack Monroe

Don't say things about people that aren't true... because there are consequences for that.

Jack Monroe

I was a bit of an accident really - I certainly didn't set out to write a cookbook or three. I didn't have a plan. I was unemployed, writing a blog about local politics and a few recipes, and it was more successful than I could ever have imagined it to be.

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I can be wildly enthusiastic and want to try to do everything that I feel would be useful and educational and beneficial - but I've crashed and burned a few times.

Jack Monroe

Working 90 hours a week is easily racked up when you're self-employed and rely on portable tech to do your work; your train journeys, toilet breaks, leisurely walks, bedtime, can all become 'working hours'. Reclaim them.

Jack Monroe

I think I'll be around as long as there is a market for simple, basic, non-intimidating food.

Jack Monroe

My politics are food-related - food banks, the living wage, zero hour contracts - and my food is political.

Jack Monroe