A Girl Called Jack
  • Published: 11 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780718178949
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $45.00
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A Girl Called Jack

100 delicious budget recipes

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27 Feb 2014
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11 Apr 2014
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100 budget-busting, easy and delicious recipes from an internet sensation

Jack Monroe is a cash-strapped single parent living in Southend. When they found themselves with a shopping budget of just £10 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.
  • Published: 11 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780718178949
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the author

Jack Monroe

Jack Monroe is a 24-year-old single mother and local newspaper reporter. Finding herself with a food budget of just £10 a week, she began to create nutritious recipes to feed herself and her son. Giving the recipes out to a local food bank, to help others in her situation, she then began to publish them online on her blog, A Girl Called Jack, which now has thousands of followers. Jack was awarded the 2013 Fortnum and Mason Judges' Choice Award for the impact that her blog has had. She lives in Essex with her son.

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Praise for A Girl Called Jack

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