Jack Monroe Quotes

Jack Monroe

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 17, 1988

It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.

Jack Monroe

Many families teeter on the edges, not qualifying for the little support on offer, unwilling to seek it for fear of drawing attention to a household barely holding the pieces together, or hit by unexpected bills.

Jack Monroe

A startling confession for a food writer: all through high school, I struggled with a severe eating disorder.

Jack Monroe

I'm not organised, and I don't cope well with deadlines, structure and routine. I'm chaotic. Always have been.

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I remember loving food tech because of the precision and the creativity, the weights and measures, the tiny glimpses of flavour.

Jack Monroe

I have been cooking vegan recipes for a long time, long before the release of my first cookbook, because in the rubbish old days of scraping by on mismanaged, delayed and suspended benefits, meat and dairy products were often just too expensive, in contrast to their kinder counterparts.

Jack Monroe

Regular readers will know that curries are my favourite thing, and I wanted to go back to the start and really research the history and philosophy of Indian cuisine, rather than just toasting spices, slow-cooking onions. I was hungry to understand this food that I love so much.

Jack Monroe

Yes, scrambled eggs are lovely, and I've eaten them, and enjoyed them, and that was OK. Now I don't want to any more, and that's OK too.

Jack Monroe

In my experience, yelling at people that they are wrong and disgusting rarely wins the argument, nor changes point of view.

Jack Monroe

I'm doing my bit to encourage people to try vegan by making vegan food affordable and accessible and absolutely delicious.

Jack Monroe

During my time at Essex county fire and rescue service, barely a shift went by without receiving a call from an elderly person who had fallen in their home, or from their concerned neighbour or carer.

Jack Monroe

Those of us referred to food banks are the lucky ones with a good doctor or health visitor who knows us well enough to recognise that something has gone seriously wrong.

Jack Monroe

We need to aim to get rid of food banks altogether, and replace charitable intervention with a fairer, more equal society.

Jack Monroe

It would be better to incentivise people into work with secure jobs and decent wages, than to try to starve them into submission.

Jack Monroe

But it's a disgrace that food banks are needed in the first place, patching up the holes left by an inefficient and downright barbaric attack on the meagre safety net of what remains of a notion of 'social security'.

Jack Monroe

Gas prices and train fares seem to be the two commodities for modern British life that base their prices on a whim, or numbers plucked out of thin air, without a thought to the real cost to those for whom those price hikes mean unimaginable sacrifices in their day to day lives.

Jack Monroe

I eventually turned the fridge and freezer off - they were empty anyway - and the boiler, desperate to save money, shocking myself awake in the morning with the shortest, coldest showers, and boiling a kettle of water twice a week to bath my young son.

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We hear time and again what a prosperous, affluent country Britain is, the sixth richest in the world. But aren't we ashamed that people who need emergency food handouts are eating cold beans and stewed steak from the tin, or handing it back, because they can't even heat it up?

Jack Monroe