A Girl Called Jack

100 budget-busting, easy and delicious recipes from an internet sensationJack Monroe is a cash-strapped single parent living in Southend. When they found themselves with a shopping budget of just e10 a week to feed themselves and their young son, they addressed the situation with resourcefulness, creativity and their local supermarket's 'basics' range. They created recipe after recipe of delicious, simple and defiantly upbeat meals that were outrageously cheap. Discover with Jack how to be less wasteful, whilst creating inexpensive, great food on a budget.Recipes include Vegetable Masala Curry for 30p a portion, Pasta alla Genovese for 19p a portion and a Jam Sponge reminiscent of school days for 23p a portion.

“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 £10 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

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.

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