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• Readers Recipes – Send me yours!

  By Jack Monroe (OurSouthend) on May 12, 2013 • ( 27 )

  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 ›

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• Hunger Hurts. (July 2012)

  By Jack Monroe (OurSouthend) on July 30, 2012 • ( 55 )

  Today has seen fourteen job applications go in, painstakingly typed on this Jurassic mobile phone, for care work, shop work, factory work, minimum wage work, any kind of work, because quite simply, this doesn’t work. For reasons unbeknownst to me,… Read More ›

• Live Below The Line: Take Two

  By Jack Monroe (OurSouthend) on May 19, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  I’ve decided to reattempt the Live Below The Line challenge, taking on board my previous experience of white rice and lack of protein, and advice and comments from readers. The challenge is open until June – so I thought a… Read More ›

• Love in snapshots: May 2013

  By Jack Monroe (OurSouthend) on May 18, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  Love in snapshots: in a world where we define people by their job titles, I am defined by the love and the generosity of my friends: More to follow as I pack up and move over the next fortnight… Jack… Read More ›

• Defined by the love of my friends.

  By Jack Monroe (OurSouthend) on May 18, 2013 • ( 11 )

  I wrote back in July 2012, in the article ‘Hunger Hurts’ (http://agirlcalledjack.com/2012/07/30/hunger-hurts/): “You sell the meagre DVD collection for an even more meagre sum, the netbook, a camera, you wash clothes in basic washing powder that makes your skin itch…. Read More ›

• Reader’s Recipes: Rod’s Perfick Hot Pud

  By Jack Monroe (OurSouthend) on May 18, 2013 • ( 3 )

  Never forget the most simplest of hot puds. Slice and deseed any fruit….you’ll soon discover which one works best for you. We like plain old apple….but pear, pine-apple or orange are also good. A small knob of butter or other… Read More ›

• Reader’s Recipes: Kate’s Spicy Lentil Burgers with Chilli Tomato Sauce

  By Jack Monroe (OurSouthend) on May 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Burgers 4oz Red or Brown Lentils carrot grated celery finely chopped onion finely chopped 2oz Breadcrumbs clove of garlic crushed 1/2 tsp Mustard 1/2 tsp Cayenne 1/2 tsp ground coriander 1 egg Sauce 1/2 tin chopped tomatoes 1tbsp marmalade pinch… Read More ›

• Eek! Presents! Thankyou Schwartz!

  By Jack Monroe (OurSouthend) on May 17, 2013 • ( 18 )

  

  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 ›

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