So the #22mealsforacoffee hashtag is still going viral and the original post is second only to the original Hunger Hurts for hits on my blog now, with 100,000 today alone. In the meantime, Ocado and Tesco have expressed an interest… Read More ›
Fundraising Projects
“To solve young people’s problems, you need young people’s solutions.” – YMCA youth democracy project.
Just a quick blog post this morning as I’m sitting on a bench in Clerkenwell Green, gathering my head together after a terrible night’s sleep. (I’ll be glad when this book is handed in, as sitting at a dining table… Read More ›
£3496 raised for Oxfam – THANKYOU!!!
As Live Below The Line comes to a close, I just had a quick glance at my fundraising page and am staggered to be able to report that – thanks to the incredible generosity of my friends, family and readers… Read More ›
Live Below The Line 2013 – In Pictures
Live Below The Line 2013: Take Two In Pictures. It’s not too late to sponsor me or donate, at https://www.livebelowtheline.co.uk/me/agirlcalledjack Jack Monroe. Twitter: @MsJackMonroe
LBL Day Six dinner, sausages glorious sausages.
I have just polished off my second to last dinner for this Live Below The Line challenge, and contrary to my earlier grump about sausages and beige bland muck, I devoured this in what felt like seconds. Sausage and bean… Read More ›
LBL Day Six: Beige, bland, muck.
Day Six of my ‘making a £5 food shop last seven days’ challenge, in line with this years Live Below the Line challenge. This is my second attempt at LBL this year, and I decided to go for seven days… Read More ›
LBL Day Five: Fed up and grumpy,
Day Five. Friday. Day Five. Fed up and grumpy. Breakfast was lemon curd on two slices of toast. I don’t think I’m going to eat lemon curd again for a long time after this… 7p. Lunch was a leftover cold… Read More ›
£5 for 7 days challenge – Day 4 Complete!
Having spent most of yesterday in bed with yesterday’s migraine, today has become Day Four of my second basg at the Live Below The Line challenge… Here’s my ‘Leaning tower of toast’ this morning, at 7p. Washed down with a… Read More ›
Over £3,000 raised for Oxfam so far – Thankyou!
I just thought, before I take my highly inconvenient migraine back to bed, that I would check the fundraising page for my Live Below The Line challenge this year…. And I’m staggered to have passed the £3k mark! Thankyou to… Read More ›
£5 for 7 days challenge – Day 3
Day Three. I was sent home from work this afternoon with a migraine. Well-meaning friends have suggested that I quit the challenge to look after myself, but I’m not a quitter. I get migraines every now and again, usually stress… Read More ›