So, a funny thing happened this week, in my funny life. On BBC Radio Wales on Wednesday afternoon, I mentioned that I buy just one herb or spice a week to add to my collection, in order to widen the… Read More ›
Life & Food 
FareShare Feeding the 5000: 1st June
I’ve been invited along to speak at the FareShare ‘Feeding The 5000′ event on College Green in Bristol on Saturday 1 June. It’s an event about food waste and food poverty, and there will be a petition on the day… Read More ›
‘Our Jack lands book deal and prestigious award’: Southend Echo, 16 May
Jack Monroe. Twitter: @MsJackMonroe
Reader’s Recipes: Clare’s Kind-of-Ratatouille
My budget is not as tight as it once was, but when my son was small there were days when I was reduced to searching the cracks in the sofa for change so that I could buy milk. You don’t… Read More ›
Photos from the Fortnum & Mason Food And Drink Awards
Kindly sent to me by Lindsay from Fortnum & Mason. Not to be reproduced without permission. Top to bottom: 1. Claudia Winkleman and her famous friend! 2. Impromptu nervous speech, which lots of people on Twitter then called ‘the best… Read More ›
The queer juxtaposition of writing the news and being the news…
I think today’s Southend Echo pretty much sums up my life as it is at the moment. Front page: News story written by me, about Council wasting horrendous amounts of money on a failed project in a time of austerity…. Read More ›
Reader’s Recipes: Bob’s Terrific Recipe For Afters
This is a terrific recipe for afters – extremely versatile and very sympathetic vis-a-vis leftovers. (And if you want to use it in your book please do.) There are two parts to this recipe and you need to prepare them… Read More ›
WINNER: JUDGES CHOICE AWARD at Fortnum & Mason Food And Drink Awards
So… I won’t keep you all in the same suspense that I was in tonight – I’ve just got home and thought I’d better write something scrambled and incoherent about the Fortnum And Mason Food And Drink Awards… “Tonight’s Judges… Read More ›
Small Boy off to the Fortnum & Mason Awards…
Small Boy off to the Fortnum & Mason Food And Drink Awards… With me of course, but I’m not as cute in my shirt and tux as he is!! We’ve been very kindly invited up to the inaugural F&M Food… Read More ›
Readers Recipes – Send me yours!
Well I’ve been inundated over the past few weeks with kind readers sending me their frugal recipes – and I wondered if you wouldn’t mind if I added a section to my blog so you could all share them with… Read More ›
