Jack Monroe Quotes

Jack Monroe

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 17, 1988

All kids are fussy eaters - they go through phases where they'll only eat red food or they just want to eat porridge. With fussy kids, the best thing to do is use what they do like and work around it.

Jack Monroe

The thing with my recipes is, I don't have hours to faff about in the kitchen. My recipes are all 15, 20 minute, chop it up and stick it in the oven.

Jack Monroe

Learning to cook at school gave me the confidence to experiment in the kitchen when I left home in my late teens - I wasn't intimidated by it.

Jack Monroe

After you've cut back everything else, food is the last to go. I didn't mind putting an extra jumper on if I had food in the fridge. It was the point where I had an extra jumper on and no food in the fridge that I realised things had gone badly wrong.

Jack Monroe

I know that I can cook well on a low budget so I can't really justify spending a fortune on food.

Jack Monroe

The last time I celebrated a special occasion, I hashed together a paella with some chicken, some frozen veg, long-grain rice, chilli and a shake of turmeric for colour - and it didn't disappoint.

Jack Monroe

I'm well-known for saying unsayable things.

Jack Monroe

My pregnancy changed my relationship with my body because I went from despising it to marvelling at what it can do.

Jack Monroe

All my politics and campaigning has been around issues that affect women: violence against women, welfare cuts to women.

Jack Monroe

I'm not going to have any more children. I'm quite confident about that.

Jack Monroe

I was working with the fire service in a job that should have been a job for life, with career progression, with a pension and promotion, and within a year I was sleeping on a sofa under a section 21 notice being evicted from my home and not eating or four days.

Jack Monroe

I look back and nearly all of my early jobs were in food.

Jack Monroe

I want to empower people who might have lost their way in the kitchen or never known their way around it in the first place. And just go, this is a thing you can do, you can do this, and if you want I can show you how.

Jack Monroe

There's all kinds of research that shows children operate best if they start the day with some proper food inside them - it's a no-brainer.

Jack Monroe

I got over the whole British eating-with-hands phobia very quickly when I was working with Oxfam in Tanzania.

Jack Monroe

I'm of Cypriot heritage, we have no concept of portion control.

Jack Monroe

I had no fake ID and looked 14 until my first grey hairs came in a couple of years ago.

Jack Monroe

Working behind the cocktail bar was a different kind of escapism, a creative outlet with a newfound respect for alcohol. I didn't drink as I was also working day shifts in a coffee shop and, later, the fire service, and needed my wits about me to pull off my 60-hour working weeks.

Jack Monroe

I moved back home to Southend in 2015 for a quieter life.

Jack Monroe

A lot of people don't feel heard. I want to take their concerns to MPs. If I have to stand seven times before I'm elected, I will. Call me Jack Farage.

Jack Monroe