Food | Cooking on a Bootstrap

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, Live Below The Line, News | 7 |

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

Tin Bolognese, 48p

by Jack Monroe | Jun 7, 2018 | Beans & Lentils, Dairy Free, Pasta, Soups, Uncategorized, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian | 6 |

This bolognese is a bit cheaty, given that most of its component parts come from tins, but then sometimes that’s exactly what we need. Rich and winey (not to be confused with ‘rich and whiny’), you can throw this together and pretty much ignore it entirely until it’s time for dinner.

Marmite Bread, 9p

by Jack Monroe | May 14, 2018 | Baking, Bread, Breakfast, Dairy Free, Healthy, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian | 0 |

I love Marmite on toast as a simple, quick and healthy breakfast, but my mischievous mind is...

The Only Way Is Ethics?

by Jack Monroe | May 2, 2018 | Blog, Essays, Uncategorized | 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.