When I was born my parents lived in a flat so small that it now legally can't be rented out as a… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The thing with my recipes is, I don't have hours to faff about in the kitchen. My recipes are all 15, 20… — Jack Monroe Food Copy Share Image
In my experience, yelling at people that they are wrong and disgusting rarely wins the argument, nor changes point of view. — Jack Monroe Argument Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't feel heard. I want to take their concerns to MPs. If I have to stand seven times… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
My politics are food-related - food banks, the living wage, zero hour contracts - and my food is political. — Jack Monroe Food Copy Share Image
Sweetcorn, mushy peas, beans, lentils, are all basic staples that can be thrown together into a variety of surprising meals. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Food is a weapon in austerity Britain. Hunger, the threat of and the reality of, is used to coerce and control. — Jack Monroe Austerity Copy Share Image
Until people realise benefits doesn't mean scrounger, and austerity isn't a fun middle-class way to grow your own vegetables, there's still a… — Jack Monroe Austerity Copy Share Image
My parents tended to cook big batch food because there was always the possibility that other children would turn up with their… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Working behind the cocktail bar was a different kind of escapism, a creative outlet with a newfound respect for alcohol. I didn't… — Jack Monroe Coffee Copy Share Image
But it's a disgrace that food banks are needed in the first place, patching up the holes left by an inefficient and… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Actually if you were to buy a bag of dried lentils it would cost you a couple of quid. Some people don't… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Benefit sanctions have been applied in cases where a person has failed to turn up to the jobcentre because they are in… — Jack Monroe Cancer treatment Copy Share Image
Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything in the last seven or eight years it's that my career flies by the seat of my pants… — Jack Monroe Career Copy Share Image
I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum. — Jack Monroe Charity Copy Share Image
I've had success, but I'm still haunted by the fear of being hungry. Once you've lived it it never leaves you. — Jack Monroe Fear Copy Share Image
As a kid we would eat moussaka with mash. We had a real fusion of two cultures that no-one has dared to… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I'm doing my bit to encourage people to try vegan by making vegan food affordable and accessible and absolutely delicious. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Politics has become so polarised. We're stuck between the Ukip-lite Tories and Jeremy Corbyn. How is that a choice? — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I left home at 18, I thought I knew everything. It was fun for a while and then it wasn't fun any more. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
My pregnancy changed my relationship with my body because I went from despising it to marvelling at what it can do. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I write cheap recipes for struggling families and single people, and have donated 800 copies of my newest cookery book to food… — Jack Monroe Book Copy Share Image
I never learned to cook, so I've got no rules. I'll put things together just because I think they belong together. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I got over the whole British eating-with-hands phobia very quickly when I was working with Oxfam in Tanzania. — Jack Monroe British Copy Share Image
You can pretty much make anything with a base of tinned tomatoes. If I don't have tinned tomatoes in my cupboard, I… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I think I'll be around as long as there is a market for simple, basic, non-intimidating food. — Jack Monroe Food Copy Share Image
Yet there is clearly something about bold, neurodivergent women and girls that prompts powerful men to scrape the sides of their own… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I remember going on adventures with my older brother and, when I was 11, being allowed to go to the corner shop… — Jack Monroe Adventure Copy Share Image
Regular readers will know that curries are my favourite thing, and I wanted to go back to the start and really research… — Jack Monroe Books Copy Share Image
Party politics are quite upsetting. I've been a member of the Labour party, the Green party, the Women's Equality Party, the National… — Jack Monroe Equality Copy Share Image
Because I'm in the media quite a lot now, everyone assumes that everything is fine. People forget I sleep on a mattress… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
We hear time and again what a prosperous, affluent country Britain is, the sixth richest in the world. But aren't we ashamed… — Jack Monroe Cold Copy Share Image
We have an odd culinary relationship with tinned food. In higher society, rare and supposedly exquisite goods such as tinned baby octopus,… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I think as much as people moan at things like award ceremonies, it gives people role models. It provides real positive reinforcement… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
During my time at Essex county fire and rescue service, barely a shift went by without receiving a call from an elderly… — Jack Monroe Fire Copy Share Image
All kids are fussy eaters - they go through phases where they'll only eat red food or they just want to eat… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I can be wildly enthusiastic and want to try to do everything that I feel would be useful and educational and beneficial… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I think the thing about cooking from tins for me that I really enjoyed was... the convenience of it, the slight entertainment… — Jack Monroe Cooking Copy Share Image
