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  • Published: 27 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405915403
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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A Girl Called Jack

100 delicious budget recipes




100 budget-busting, easy and delicious recipes from an internet sensation

Jack Monroe is a cash-strapped single mum living in Southend. When she found herself with a shopping budget of just £10 a week to feed herself and her young son, she addressed the situation with resourcefulness, creativity and her local supermarket's 'basics' range. She 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: 27 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405915403
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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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