Jack Monroe Quotes

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.

This expanded relief will not just mean a diet of salt pork and beans. We will give them a balanced diet.

My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.

Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek.

A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.

It makes me sound like a domestic freak, but I care very much about my kids' nutrition.

Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You are feeding people, but you are not really feeding people.

I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.

Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.

To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

Breastfeeding is the best diet. I want to eat healthy for her, so it's easy to say no to pizza.

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

Nico leaned over and plucked a grape. Probably that was the guy’s entire diet for the day.

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.

Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.