If you haven’t already seen her blog, go look like right now, I’ll wait…
awesome right?
What’s more, she has written a book of budget recipes, and honest to goodness in two weeks it has already paid for itself.
I have more than halved my grocery costs. I honestly thought I was thrifty before, but this is epic.
For background, Jack had a ridiculously tight food budget, on it she managed to cook healthy, flavour packed food for herself and her son. She began to blog about the othering of single mothers within her community, then what she was cooking, her blog is sensational, her food is sensational. What’s more though is that the blog picks up on increasing hostility towards families within western civilisations. The way children are less welcome and every child service or family payment is given begrudgingly.
But back to the book. I have, since starting to cook from this book, made: Dried mushrooms, risottos, felafel, casseroles, baked fish, pasta, curries, biscuits. Most excitingly though I have totally made bread, tasty bread, crusty with a fluffy inside bread. I made most of it with the precious monster ‘helping’, which is probably the best feature of these recipes; you can cook dinner (and lunch, and breakfast, and snacks) with your children
you can even search her website for recipes that use up what’s lingering in the back of your fridge.
Save money, eat well. It’s not too good to be true!
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