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100 easy and delicious meals on a tight budget with Jack Monroes A Girl Called Jack. Jack is a cash-strapped single mum living in Southend. When she found herself with a shopping budget of just GBP10 a week to feed herself and her young son, she addressed the situation with immense resourcefulness, creativity and by embracing her local supermarkets basics range. She created recipe after recipe of delicious, simple and upbeat meals that were outrageously cheap. Learn with Jack Monroes A Girl Called Jack how to save money on your weekly shop whilst being less wasteful and creating inexpensive, tasty food.

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Jack Monroe was awarded the 2013 Fortnum and Mason Judges Choice Award for the impact that her blog, A Girl Called Jack, has had. She is now a well-known campaigner against hunger and poverty in the UK, a journalist and weekly recipe columnist for the Guardian, and she also writes a monthly food column in Waitrose Kitchen magazine.

Jack lives in Essex with her son.

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A GIRL CALLED JACK
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HUNGER HURTS An excerpt from my blog in July 2012 The original title was - photo 9
HUNGER HURTS An excerpt from my blog in July 2012 The original title was - photo 10
HUNGER HURTS

An excerpt from my blog in July 2012. The original title was Poverty isnt just having not enough food. It has been read 20 million times, reblogged, retweeted, quoted in national newspapers, and I used it as my speech in Parliament last summer. This was the turning point.

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 doesnt work.

For reasons unbeknownst to me, this month my Housing Benefit was over 100 short. I didnt get a letter that I know of, but I can assume that its still the fallout from the cockups made by the various benefit agencies when I briefly went back to work from March to May. Whatever the reason, its easy to work out that 670 of rent cant be paid from 438 of Housing Benefit. So Im a week in arrears, almost two, as by the time Thursday comes and the next 167.31 is due, therell still be nothing coming in. The Income Support went on keeping me afloat, briefly, as did the Child Tax Credit. Now Im not only in arrears, but last night when I opened my fridge to find some leftover tomato pasta, an onion and a knob of stem ginger, I gave the pasta to my boy and went to bed hungry with a pot of home-made ginger tea to ease the stomach pains.

This morning, Small Boy had one of the last Weetabix, mashed with water, with a glass of tap water to wash it down with. Wheres Mummys breakfast? he asks, big blue eyes and two-year-old concern. I tell him Im not hungry, but the rumblings of my stomach call me a liar. But these are the things that we do.

I sit at the breakfast table, pencil and paper in hand, and I start to make a list. Everything that I have was either given to me by benevolent and generous friends, or bought when I earned 27k a year and had that fuzzy memory of disposable income. Much of it has gone already. The Omega Seamaster watch, a 21st-birthday present, was the first to go when I left the Fire Service. My words you cant plead poverty with a bloody Omega on your bloody wrist now ring true for most of my possessions as the roof over my head becomes untenable. My letting agents take care to remind me that I am on a rolling contract, and they can ask me to leave at any time, for no reason. I sell my iPhone for less than a quarter of its original price, and put my SIM in this Jurassic Nokia that I found in a drawer from days gone by.

Tomorrow, my small boy will be introduced to the world of pawnbroking, watching as his mother hands over the TV and the guitar for an insulting price, but something towards bridging the gap between the fear of homelessness, and hanging in for a week or two more. Trying to consolidate arrears, red-topped letters and bailiffs, with home security, is a day-to-day grind, stripping back further the things that I can call my own. Questioning how much I need a microwave. How much I need a TV. How much I need to have the fridge turned on at the mains. Not as much as I need a home, and more importantly, not as much as Small Boy needs a home.

People ask me how I can be so strong. People say to me that they admire my spirit. Days like today, sitting on my sons bed with a friend, numb and staring as I try to work out where the hell to go from here, I dont feel strong. I dont feel spirited. I just carry on.

First you turn your heating off. That was in December, it went off at the mains and I parked furniture in front of all the heaters to forget that they were ever there in the first place and alleviate the temptation to turn them on. Then you turn everything off at the wall sockets; nothing on standby, nothing leaking even pennies of electricity to keep the LCD display on the oven. Then you stop getting your hair cut; what used to be a monthly essential is suddenly a gross luxury, so you throw it back in an Alice band and tell your friends that youre growing it, not that you cant afford to get it cut. Everyday items are automatically replaced with the white and orange livery of Sainsburys Basics, and everything is cleaned with 24p bleach diluted in spray bottles. You learn to go without things, and to put pride to one side when a friend invites you to the pub and you cant buy yourself a drink, let alone one for anyone else. Theres a running joke that I owe a very big round when Im finally successful with a job application, and I know I am lucky to have the friends that I do.

Then you start to take lightbulbs out. If they arent there, you cant turn them on. Hallway, bedroom, Small Boys bedroom, you deem them unnecessary, and then, in a cruel twist of fate, the E.ON man rings the doorbell to tell you that you owe 390, and that hes fitting a key meter, which will make your electricity more expensive to run. So you turn the hot water off. Cold showers were something of the norm in my old flat, where the boiler worked when it wanted to, so you go back to them.

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. You pare back, until you have only two plates, two bowls, two mugs, two glasses, two forks, two knives, two spoons, because everything else feels like an indulgence, and rent arrears dont wait for indulgence.

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