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Warm Potato Salad with Apples & Pickle, 12p

by Jack Monroe | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Dairy Free, Entertaining, Healthy, Spuds, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian | 0 |

I love a good potato salad, and this one was loosely inspired by a Waldorf salad with its use of...

Pickled Radishes, 24p

by Jack Monroe | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Christmas On A Bootstrap, Dairy Free, Entertaining, Gluten Free, Handy Hints, Healthy, Recipes, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian | 0 |

I love a pickle. Always have, since being a very little girl filching the tiny silver skin onions...

Garlicky Broad Beans & Greens Puree, 18p

by Jack Monroe | Jul 10, 2018 | Beans & Lentils, Blog, Dairy Free, Entertaining, Gluten Free, Healthy, Recipes, Snacks & Treats, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian | 0 |

As a child, I was occasionally served broad beans, cooked in chewy, barely digestible pods, and it took me until well into adulthood to even go near them again. And then I discovered ‘double-podding’. Not just slipping them from their blankety beds with a deftly-applied flick of a well-exercised thumb, but also removing that thick, barely penetrable, greyish skin to reveal a nub of the brightest green, as round and fresh and delectable as the most petit of peas. This, dear reader, changed everything…

Top 5 Tips For Eating Healthily On A Budget (and the limitations)

by Jack Monroe | Jun 27, 2018 | Blog, Essays, Handy Hints, News | 7 |

On Sunday, after the Government announced new measures to attempt to tackle the correlation...

The difference between poverty and poverty tourism? You’ll never live like common people.

by Jack Monroe | Jun 27, 2018 | Blog, Essays | 28 |

Every now and again, a minor celebrity or institution will announce that they are ‘challenging...

Chickpea & Tomato Brunch Loaf, 17p

by Jack Monroe | May 4, 2018 | Baking, Beans & Lentils, Blog, Bread, Breakfast, Dairy Free, Recipes, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian | 18 |

This loaf first appeared in my first cookbook, A Girl Called Jack, and is a favourite weekend...

The Only Way Is Ethics?

by Jack Monroe | May 2, 2018 | Blog, Essays | 63 |

Choosing a vegan diet is a privilege. ‘But some of the poorest diets in the world are vegan’, I hear you cry. And there, dear reader, does the distinction lie. A diet dictated by poverty is not a choice. A diet lacking in meat and dairy products for wont of the finances, resources and availability of them, is not the same as having access to these products and choosing not to use them.