Description
100 simple, budge and basic-ingredient recipes from the bestselling and award-winning food writer and anti-poverty campaigner behind TIN CAN COOK
'A terrific resource for anyone trying to cook nutritious and tasty food on a tight budget' Sunday Times
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Learn how to utilise cupboard staples and fresh ingredients in this accessible collection of low-budget, delicious family recipes.
When Jack found themselves with a shopping budget of just GBP10 a week to feed themselves and their young son, they addressed the situation with immense resourcefulness and creativity by embracing their local supermarket's 'basics' range.
They created recipe after recipe of delicious, simple and upbeat meals that were outrageously cheap, including:
* Vegetable Masala Curry for 30p a portion
* Jam Sponge reminiscent of school days for 23p a portion
* Onion Pasta with Parsley and Red Wine - an easy way to get some veg in you
* Carrot, Cumin and Kidney Bean Soup - tasty protein-packed goodness
In A Girl Called Jack, learn how to save money on your weekly shop whilst being less wasteful and creating inexpensive, tasty food.
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Praise for Jack Monroe:
'Jack's recipes have come like a breath of fresh air in the cookery world' NIGEL SLATER
'A terrific resource for anyone trying to cook nutritious and tasty food on a tight budget' Sunday Times
'A plain-speaking, practical austerity cooking guide - healthy, tasty and varied' Guardian
'A powerful new voice in British food' Observer
'Packed with inexpensive, delicious ideas to feed a family for less' Woman and Home
Jack is a woman of our times, facing head-on the realities of recession-hit Britain and responding with a 'make do and mend' way of thinking that we should all consider. When she found herself unemployed ad with a food budget of just e10 a week, she decided to . . .
About the Author
Jack was awarded the 2013 Fortnum and Mason Judges' Choice Award for the impact that their blog, A Girl Called Jack, has had. They are now a well-known campaigner against hunger and poverty in the UK, weekly recipe columnist for the Guardian, and winner of Women of the Year 2014.
Reviews
A terrific resource for anyone trying to cook nutritious and tasty food on a tight budget * Sunday Times *
A plain-speaking, practical austerity cookery guide - healthy, tasty and varied. -- Patrick Butler * The Guardian *
Prepare to feel very inspired, and very hungry. * Look *
A powerful new voice in British food * Observer *
100 tasty, cheap-as-chips - but much healthier - recipes * Good Housekeeping *
Sassy, political, and cooking amazing food on GBP10 a week. We need more like her. -- Xanthe Clay * The Telegraph *
Packed with inexpensive, delicious ideas to feed a family for less * Woman and Home *
Book Information
ISBN 9780718178949
Author Jack Monroe
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 737g
Dimensions(mm) 252mm * 292mm * 21mm