News about Jack Monroe

Since offering alternatives that food banks' brands were deemed "ineffective," Jack Monroe was slammed by critics, who included using a frozen glass bottle filled with water as a rolling pin. The writer from Southend, Essex, Thrifty Kitchen cook book, which also included using a 'large clean square of cotton' to drain rice and pasta. This book, according to the activist, is really for those people in need of a handbag, to get sunglasses, and stuffing cardboard rolls with the fluff from a tumble dryer to make firelighters.

The food writer and activist, 34, from Southend, who first became well-known in 2012 after writing budget food recipes, is the subject of a new blog by an anonymous NHS worker who claims that Monroe has distorted her own experiences of poverty. Monroe, a non-binary with autism and ADHD, characterized continuing online critique of her work as 'deliberately inflammatory.'