A Girl Called Jack: 100 delicious budget recipes

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Penguin UK, Feb 27, 2014 - Cooking - 224 pages

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

 

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Contents

Introduction
Hunger Hurts
Kitchen Essentials
Change Your Shopping Habits
Bread and Breakfast
Super Soups
Beans Pulses and Lentils
Take a Packet of Pasta
Or a Bag of Rice
Vegetable Dishes
Fishes
Birds
Piggy
Sweets and Treats
And Another Thing
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About the author (2014)

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.

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