Description

Book Synopsis

Simple and affordable cooking, Tin Can Cook takes it back to the basics: making great-tasting food with ordinary and budget-friendly ingredients.

Winner of the OFM Best Food Personality Readers' Award and a Sunday Times bestseller.


Food writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe brings together seventy-five recipes that you can rustle up from tinned and dried ingredients.

Beautifully designed with accompanying quirky hand-drawn illustrations, this book is for you if you’ve struggled to make a dish because the recipe calls for an exotic ingredient you’ve never heard of. Jack does away with the effort; all her dishes are exciting and new, but you won’t have to look further than your local supermarket to make them.

Jack's recipes include Red Lentil and Mandarin Curry, Catalan Fish Stew, Pina Colada Toast and many more delicious and creative ideas.

'An exuberant rebuttal to the idea that good food must be expensive, farm-fresh and unprocessed' – Ruby Tandoh, The Great British Bake Off runner-up and author of Eat Up

'At a time when good food can often be seen as rather elitist or exclusive, Jack has done an excellent job to create recipes which are simple, straightforward and delicious' – Felicity Spector, food writer and journalist



Trade Review
Using predominantly ingredients from cans, the book's recipes are an exuberant rebuttal to the idea that good food must be expensive, farm-fresh and unprocessed. -- Ruby Tandoh * Vice *
Tin Can Cook is a brilliant book full of recipes which are accessible to all sorts of budgets and easy to make. At a time when good food can often be seen as rather elitist or exclusive, Jack has done an excellent job to create recipes which are simple, straightforward and delicious. -- Felicity Spector, food writer and journalist
Jack Monroe is both cookery writer and tenacious campaigner . . . she understands first hand what it's like to be skint and have the desire to put something delicious on the table. -- Nigel Slater
I honestly think this is an era-defining cookbook, and a brilliant, thoughtful, incredibly useful piece of work. -- Marina O'Loughlin, restaurant critic
Jack Monroe is the Queen of Cans, and her Tin Can Cook is a wonderful resource for cheap, nutritious and delightful tin-based cookery. -- Olivia Potts, Spectator
If she wasn’t already a legend . . . she has 100% reached national treasure status now. -- Stylist

Tin Can Cook: 75 Simple Store-cupboard Recipes

    Product form

    £6.99

    Includes FREE delivery

    Order before 4pm tomorrow for delivery by Fri 19 Jun 2026.

    A Paperback / softback by Jack Monroe

    Out of stock


      View other formats and editions of Tin Can Cook: 75 Simple Store-cupboard Recipes by Jack Monroe

      Publisher: Pan Macmillan
      Publication Date: 30/05/2019
      ISBN13: 9781529015287, 978-1529015287
      ISBN10: 1529015286

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Simple and affordable cooking, Tin Can Cook takes it back to the basics: making great-tasting food with ordinary and budget-friendly ingredients.

      Winner of the OFM Best Food Personality Readers' Award and a Sunday Times bestseller.


      Food writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe brings together seventy-five recipes that you can rustle up from tinned and dried ingredients.

      Beautifully designed with accompanying quirky hand-drawn illustrations, this book is for you if you’ve struggled to make a dish because the recipe calls for an exotic ingredient you’ve never heard of. Jack does away with the effort; all her dishes are exciting and new, but you won’t have to look further than your local supermarket to make them.

      Jack's recipes include Red Lentil and Mandarin Curry, Catalan Fish Stew, Pina Colada Toast and many more delicious and creative ideas.

      'An exuberant rebuttal to the idea that good food must be expensive, farm-fresh and unprocessed' – Ruby Tandoh, The Great British Bake Off runner-up and author of Eat Up

      'At a time when good food can often be seen as rather elitist or exclusive, Jack has done an excellent job to create recipes which are simple, straightforward and delicious' – Felicity Spector, food writer and journalist



      Trade Review
      Using predominantly ingredients from cans, the book's recipes are an exuberant rebuttal to the idea that good food must be expensive, farm-fresh and unprocessed. -- Ruby Tandoh * Vice *
      Tin Can Cook is a brilliant book full of recipes which are accessible to all sorts of budgets and easy to make. At a time when good food can often be seen as rather elitist or exclusive, Jack has done an excellent job to create recipes which are simple, straightforward and delicious. -- Felicity Spector, food writer and journalist
      Jack Monroe is both cookery writer and tenacious campaigner . . . she understands first hand what it's like to be skint and have the desire to put something delicious on the table. -- Nigel Slater
      I honestly think this is an era-defining cookbook, and a brilliant, thoughtful, incredibly useful piece of work. -- Marina O'Loughlin, restaurant critic
      Jack Monroe is the Queen of Cans, and her Tin Can Cook is a wonderful resource for cheap, nutritious and delightful tin-based cookery. -- Olivia Potts, Spectator
      If she wasn’t already a legend . . . she has 100% reached national treasure status now. -- Stylist

      Recently viewed products

      © 2026 Book Curl

        • American Express
        • Apple Pay
        • Diners Club
        • Discover
        • Google Pay
        • Maestro
        • Mastercard
        • PayPal
        • Shop Pay
        • Union Pay
        • Visa

        Login

        Forgot your password?

        Don't have an account yet?
        Create account