100 Quotes by Jack Monroe

Until people realise benefits doesn't mean scrounger, and austerity isn't a fun middle-class way to grow your own vegetables, there's still a lot of work to do.

When I was at my lowest point I had a lot of help from charities, food banks, to see me through so it is nice to start to give something back.

I had such a run of bad luck that you lose faith that good things are going to happen any more. I still don't answer the door because I went through so long expecting it to be a bailiff.

I left home at 18, I thought I knew everything. It was fun for a while and then it wasn't fun any more.

I think the thing about cooking from tins for me that I really enjoyed was... the convenience of it, the slight entertainment side of it. Just the surprise of being able to crack open a couple of tins, pour them into a pan, and 15 minutes later you've got a fantastic dinner on the table.

If you consider each individual tin as just the building block for a larger recipe, it doesn't really make much difference whether it comes from a tin, or whether it's fresh because it's just being used in a lot of other things.

You can pretty much make anything with a base of tinned tomatoes. If I don't have tinned tomatoes in my cupboard, I start to panic - it's a genuine thing.

I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum.

Don't say things about people that aren't true... because there are consequences for that.