Jack Monroe Quotes

The things I cook and eat on a regular basis are really inexpensive.

One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

You can serve good food on a budget provided you don't waste it.

I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

Since truffle oil and caviar aren't always in the budget, learning to tweak and enhance just a few ingredients and flavor combinations can help you transform those ordinary ingredients into the extraordinary!

The real reason I was lo-fi before was really just because that's what I could afford.

Tinned food can be cheaper than buying fresh stuff. Things like tinned carrots, tinned potatoes, mushy peas make a good base for a soup.

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land.

When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

My wife, Donna, is a fantastic cook!

I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was a fire hazard.

I've never taken a cooking class. I've never gone to a cooking show. I've never read a recipe in my life.

Females make better cooks than men. Females have a better palate. They have a better sense of smell. They never take shortcuts; this is why they're very good in kitchens. The weakness in what they do is they are not as physically strong as men, so they're never really given the opportunity.

Food is a passion for me, especially Italian cuisine. I prefer to have somebody cook for me, but I can do some very nice pasta dishes.

That was one thing my mama instilled in me: to be well trained in the kitchen. Growing up, I was always in the kitchen with her. You name it, I make it: red beans and rice, lasagna, chicken, pork. I am the queen of cooking.

I can't speak for other people but the budget of my films is super tight to an extent that people can't even imagine.

I've never made a meal that I wasn't able to eat, but it that doesn't mean anyone else would ever eat it, haha!

When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

Anyone can cook, and most everyone should.

The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.

My culinary skills are terrible. I can't even make toast taste good. I do make scrambled eggs for myself sometimes but I wouldn't even inflict that on anyone else.