British chefs use canned food to make "Michelin"-level food for low-income families, and their representative work is 1 element burger and has become popular on the Internet!

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Just to make your elegant lifestyle easier

Under the influence of the global coronavirus,

Taking a vegan diet is undoubtedly a wise decision

But some people pointed out

On the cost of diet

Vegetarian products cost more than meat!

The same meal is more expensive to eat vegetarian food!

This has led many families with low income to give up eating vegetarian food

Indeed, the population of vegetarian products is small.

The price of its products will be slightly higher

But eating vegetarian does not mean you have to spend more money

You can eat healthily if you spend less money!

British celebrity chef: Gordon Ramsay（ Left) and Jamie Oliver（ right)

31 years old this year Jack Monroe He is a "famous" chef in the UK. Don't get me wrong, she's not like Gordon Ramsay or Jamie Oliver British celebrity chefs who usually become popular in TV shows rely onRecipe for "Civilian Goods" that costs less than one pound (RMB 9) per capitaAnd it is familiar to people.

Monroe Most of the ingredients used are from canned, frozen vegetables or discounted foods. The 100 vegan recipes recorded in her upcoming cookbook are all designed with canned ingredients.

Now she is like the spokesperson for low-income families in the UK.The British people are used to calling her "Canned Chef"」。

MonroeOften in ins Dress your own food made with canned food or cheap ingredients

Monroe Although she is quite famous in the UK now, she is neither a professional chef nor her own restaurant. To be precise, she is actually a best-selling cookbook writer, active on social media, posts from time to time, and also cooks vegetarian curry for 50 people in charity events.

at present Monroe Working to conceive good dinner recipes for low-income people in the UK for just a few pounds to improve their diet.

Nutritious diet for low-income families

Canned food may not be very popular in many Asian countries, but canned food is very popular in the UK. The reason for its popularity is not only because it is easy to preserve, but also because canned food is very cheap, especially the expiration of canned food, which can be cheap enough to almost be "free"!

People who don’t eat canned food must think that cooking with canned food is definitely not delicious, but this is not the case. Monroe Add carrots, cumin and basil to the canned ingredients, and combined with some simple cooking skills, you can also taste ordinary delicacies.

She especially wants to help families who are under pressure and overburden so that they can get the happiness of their diet from the financial abyss. These people often have to struggle with the rent of a small grocery store and think carefully about how to save some money. Saving money is just to pay for the rising cost of living. But in fact, there is a solution to all this!

For example, buy a few discounted cans, Monroe After careful cooking, the canned dishes look like dishes from Michelin restaurants, with good looks and nutrition.

exist Monroe In the kitchen, there are many cans in the kitchen cabinet, most of which are ingredients from her recipes. In the freezer, a bag of fresh-keeping bags marked with various labels are stored, including vegetable salads, pasta bean soup and vegetable sauce, which do not look like food for low-income families. Monroe It seems that the outside world has a stereotype of what low-income people can eat.

She said: “I hope that in the world I live in, everyone should have dignity to eat. A plate of risotto in a British restaurant costs about 15 pounds (about 150 yuan). Low-income families can use higher-priced Italian rice instead of cheaper long-grain rice, which can also make cheap and delicious risotto. ”

Can you believe the burger worth RMB 1?

Low-income families who rely on their meager income will know how to use simple ingredients to cook delicious food within reach. Of course, they also need to have certain cooking tips. Monroe There were originally many bettors on the social platform, but one of them was made of carrots and cumin waist bean burgers that cost only nine pence (about 1 yuan) ( Carrot, Cumin and Kidney Bean Burgers） The recipe made her really popular on the Internet! The number of fans soared to 1.23 million!

In addition to sharing recipes, Monroe They will also regularly share cheap cooking tips. For example, if fresh lemons are expensive, you can buy a bottle of lemon concentrate juice instead.； If you don’t have red wine to make soup at home, you will have the same effect if you replace it with black tea.

The most classic time, Monroe I tried to use 15p canned chickpeas to make the famous dish chickpeas soup, which also caused a lot of response online. Because this dish that usually costs 8-10 pounds (more than 90 yuan) only costs 20p (2 yuan)! The price difference between the two is 45 times!

Representatives for low-income groups based on their own experience

Monroe Love animals so much that it becomes a flex vegetarian!

Seven years ago, Monroe Worked as a dispatcher at the fire brigade's rescue center, with an annual salary of £27,000 (about 270,000 yuan). After her son was born, she could not find someone who could take care of the child at night, so she resolutely resigned.

MonroeAt the awards ceremony

Monroe "I thought I would find a new job easily," recalled. ”However, at that time, the British economy was still affected by the financial tsunami. She had applied for 100 jobs, such as car maintenance apprenticeship, traffic supervisor, forklift operator, fast food store clerk, etc., but she could not find a formal job for a year and a half. At the most downturn, she had to rely on the "food bank" to survive. Looking back now, those days were indeed not easy.

Burger steak made with canned beans

But thanks to this difficult time, Monroe Not only did I learn some cooking skills, but I also knew how to be flexible and flexible: even if there was no gas stove available, I knew how to use an iron to fry burger steaks, or use an electric kettle to cook vegetables.

2012In 2019, she opened a personal media channel to share her experience cooking with ingredients obtained from food banks. Her story is a bit inspirational and a little miserable, and a neighbor tells the reason why she is popular: “She is a girl next door. ”

Monroe Hope through cooking and experience,

Provide better dietary options for more low-income families!

Her story tells us

Whatever the ingredients are used

The most important thing is

Have a kind heart

And a pair of eyes that discover beauty!

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