Jack monroe challenged on twitter

[KarlWrenbury]

Maybe by a sock puppet account Etc but yes- how are they still not making ends meet after all this time ?

What’s a “part time” or “hobby” writer? Of the 30+ published authors I know, every single one of us has a paid job, either full-time or working more than that as a freelancer. Unless you’re one of a handful of major, major authors, even bestselling authors have other income streams. Are they “hobby” writers?

Also, JM sounds like an absolute nightmare to manage, deadline-wise.

It's not merely speculation. People have the receipts.

I swear by That Mans Jamie's Ministry of food for good, easy, basic cooking, for anyone.

Jack's recipe for tomato soup:
First, take a tin of tomato soup.
Yer fucking what now, and this is beating food poverty?

She tweeted: “I’ve cried in supermarkets plenty in the last 10 years. Putting back jam that had crept up by sixpence, meaning SB and I faced a week of bone dry toast. Trying to work out what to put back, what to do without, out of a tenner’s worth of groceries that weren’t enough to start with.

“I’ve cried tears of humiliation when a shelf-edge label turned out to be advertising an expired promotion, tipping my shopping over what I could afford from the six pounds or so in change – the only money I had in the world – in my hand.

“And today I cried, quietly, to myself, in Asda, as the enormity of all of the last few weeks finally sank in among all the white labels in my shopping basket.

that was published 5 months ago.

I can hardly believe this stuff. How can one only live on dry toast all week? Surely you would talk to your child’s father? Was he paying maintenance? Grandparents? Food banks? School lunches?

dry toast all week is about £1 ish

even on benefits, you are left with more than a £1

thing is if this all doesn’t add up why are none of the big newspapers calling it out?

it would be interesting to snap her shopping trolley today

Has she responded to how she spends her Patreon?

She tweeted: “I’ve cried in supermarkets plenty in the last 10 years. Putting back jam that had crept up by sixpence, meaning SB and I faced a week of bone dry toast. Trying to work out what to put back, what to do without, out of a tenner’s worth of groceries that weren’t enough to start with.

“I’ve cried tears of humiliation when a shelf-edge label turned out to be advertising an expired promotion, tipping my shopping over what I could afford from the six pounds or so in change – the only money I had in the world – in my hand.

This is bonkers. If I was in that situation, even once, then every single piece of designer gear I owned would be on ebay and I would not be in a 3/4 bed cottage with detached studio.

I knew I wasn’t imagining it. Her blog post was deleted but the MN thread is still there.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1779260-To-have-found-this-blog-about-childhood-obesity-intensely-smug-and-annoying

What's white labels?
All mys upermarkets do yellow.

Missing the point am i😁

THAT'S the one I was thinking of! Thank you.

Probably contains heritage potatoes, a bottle of champers and a duck she found in a puddle.

Swan, not duck.

When he son was small why didn’t she say to his wonderful supportive dad, can I have an extra £5/10 this week, or ask to go round for tea. Why not go to her mums and borrow stuff from the cupboard, or go round for tea.
Everything is always the extreme, literally the poorest person with no support at all she can go to. I’ve never believed it.

Unless her family were really abusive (and she has never said they are), I don't understand why a woman from a wealthy middle class family was not feeding her child properly.

I’ll defend her in this to somebody extent (god knows why!) and say that some of the things she’s tweeted in previous years at least indicate that her parents and grandfather, whilst she had a good relationship with them, more or less told her they were disappointed and thought she was throwing her life away by continuing with an unplanned pregnancy so young whilst in a short relationship which was unlikely to work out (as it didn’t.) So I can understand why she may then have felt too proud to go cap in hand to them to feed him.

I think most of rest of what she says is pure bollocks, but that she did have a (albeit relatively short) period of real financial difficulty when her son was small and felt she had to push through it alone I do believe.

I stand corrected!

😂😂😂

I'm desperate for her to take it to court.
"I've been libelled, awful things have been said about me, it's come from.....Me, my own account"
Jack Monroe vs Jack Monroe.

She can’t sue. They would have to look at her bank accounts. She can’t have that.

I had a look at Twitter earlier. My word. Why do some people equate being credulous with being kind?

I’m actually starting to think she doesn’t have much skill as a cook. She messed up when she tried to do it live on tv. People like Jamie Oliver are trained experienced chefs so the techniques are second nature. Thinking back to her old tweets she used to say things like she’d been up until 3am all week testing recipes, and there was something off about it. She’d say things like she tried 100 different versions of it because she’s such a perfectionist, which seemed very unlikely. And there was never a big reveal of the final perfected item. I think at least some of these recipes are purely theoretical and she hasn’t really made them.

Her ability is the meticulous costing of ingredients and meals that she does, down to the last spoonful of oil and half tin of tomatoes. I no longer believe she has much if any skill in creating a good recipe.

They don’t want to lose face. How humiliating would it be to admit you’ve been conned?

Her ability is the meticulous costing of ingredients and meals that she does, down to the last spoonful of oil and half tin of tomatoes. I no longer believe she has much if any skill in creating a good recipe

Her costings are actually off, tbh. If you look at some of the stuff she's posted/tweeted and her portion sizes, they wouldn't satisfy a goldfish let alone, say, a family of four with growing kids. If you watch her Lorraine Super Savers segment (and I don't recommend it), she also uses things like 'a pinch of chilli = 3p'. You can't go to Asda and buy a 'pinch of chilli', you have to buy the whole jar or already have it in the cupboard. Her recipes often assume you already have this stuff in the cupboard, which a lot of people on a budget won't.

AM is tweeting again - they’re really not letting this one go. The evidence when presented like this - back to back tweets (such as the ‘I’ve lost all my work coz of covid and I’m panicking about money here’s my begging bowl’ vs two weeks later ‘no big deal here’s two weeks of me on the telly’) is really really hard to ignore.

I don’t know how JM is going to come back from this, professionally. Even the most die-hard fan must be scratching their head thinking wtf now.

I've never paid much attention to Monroe but I'm going down a rabbit hole now. It doesn't look great.

Some people think AM is Katie Hopkins but s/he clearly isn't.