It would be better to incentivise people into work with secure jobs and decent wages, than to try to starve them into… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Even in my genre, cookery, just look who gets on the television. Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater. All very nice men.… — Jack Monroe Cookery 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
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
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 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
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
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
Cheese is one of the world's great foodstuffs and I speak as someone who would once happily snarf a packet of American-style… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
After you've cut back everything else, food is the last to go. I didn't mind putting an extra jumper on if I… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The last time I celebrated a special occasion, I hashed together a paella with some chicken, some frozen veg, long-grain rice, chilli… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
But I know that trying to black out my past with oblivion will just damage my future. I made the decision to… — Jack Monroe Decision Copy Share Image
If you consider each individual tin as just the building block for a larger recipe, it doesn't really make much difference whether… — Jack Monroe Being 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum. — Jack Monroe Charity Copy Share Image
It took 24 years for me to harness my autistic traits into something useful, and I have grown to regard them as… — Jack Monroe Algebra Copy Share Image
I have been cooking vegan recipes for a long time, long before the release of my first cookbook, because in the rubbish… — Jack Monroe Cooking 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
At 11, following comprehensive psychiatric and cognitive assessments, an educational psychiatrist appointed by my high school recommended that I attend a school… — Jack Monroe Children Copy Share Image
Working 90 hours a week is easily racked up when you're self-employed and rely on portable tech to do your work; your… — Jack Monroe Technology Copy Share Image
I want to empower people who might have lost their way in the kitchen or never known their way around it in… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
If the thought of cold tomato soup makes you shudder, take it from a veteran, it's like a creamy gazpacho, but in… — Jack Monroe Cold Copy Share Image
I have a surprisingly large appetite anyway and I don't drive, I walk everywhere, I don't sit down at the moment and… — Jack Monroe Appetite Copy Share Image
I'm not the spring chicken everyone wants. I've got a debilitating illness. The brave face is 'I'm busy with work' but I've… — Jack Monroe Brave Copy Share Image
I eventually turned the fridge and freezer off - they were empty anyway - and the boiler, desperate to save money, shocking… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use… — Jack Monroe Cooking Copy Share Image
