A Girl Called Jack: 100 delicious budget recipes

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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 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.

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.

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 *