100 delicious budget recipes

A Girl Called Jack

100 simple, budge and basic-ingredient recipes from the bestselling and award-winning food writer and anti-poverty campaigner behind TIN CAN COOK 
 
 'A terrific resource for anyone trying to cook nutritious and tasty food on a tight budget' Sunday Times 
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 Learn how to utilise cupboard staples and fresh ingredients in this accessible collection of low-budget, delicious family recipes. 
 
 When Jack found themselves with a shopping budget of just £10 a week to feed themselves and their young son, they addressed the situation with immense resourcefulness and creativity by embracing their local supermarket's 'basics' range. 
 
They created recipe after recipe of delicious, simple and upbeat meals that were outrageously cheap, including: 
 
 · Vegetable Masala Curry for 30p a portion 
 · Jam Sponge reminiscent of school days for 23p a portion 
 · Onion Pasta with Parsley and Red Wine - an easy way to get some veg in you 
 · Carrot, Cumin and Kidney Bean Soup - tasty protein-packed goodness 
 
 In A Girl Called Jack, learn how to save money on your weekly shop whilst being less wasteful and creating inexpensive, tasty food. 
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 Praise for Jack Monroe: 
 
 'Jack's recipes have come like a breath of fresh air in the cookery world' NIGEL SLATER 
 
 'A terrific resource for anyone trying to cook nutritious and tasty food on a tight budget' Sunday Times 
 
 'A plain-speaking, practical austerity cooking guide - healthy, tasty and varied' Guardian 
 
 'A powerful new voice in British food' Observer 
 
 'Packed with inexpensive, delicious ideas to feed a family for less' Woman and Home

A terrific resource for anyone trying to cook nutritious and tasty food on a tight budget

A plain-speaking, practical austerity cookery guide - healthy, tasty and varied.

Prepare to feel very inspired, and very hungry.

100 tasty, cheap-as-chips - but much healthier - recipes

Sassy, political, and cooking amazing food on £10 a week. We need more like her.

Packed with inexpensive, delicious ideas to feed a family for less

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.

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.

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