I haven’t cooked in 10 YEARS and spend £500 a month on takeaways and eating out – cooking is a waste of money and time
A KITCHEN-shy woman who hasn’t cooked for 10 years has revealed she spends £500 a month on takeaways and dining out.
Saffron Boswell either orders in food or eats out for breakfast, lunch and dinner, seven days a week, at around £60 per day.
The 26-year-old hates cooking and hasn’t made herself a meal since she moved into her own place a decade ago.
A typical day involves going to her local cafe for a full English or ordering a sandwich from Subway, having lunch at Pizza Express or ordering a salad and burger from KFC, and going to Nando’s or ordering a Dominos for dinner.
Breakfast can set her back around £10, lunch usually costs £20, and she spends around £30 on dinner.
She spends around £60 a day on food and believes it’s cheaper than doing a food shop.
“If you’re cooking from scratch, it costs a fortune,” Saffron, from Brentwood, Essex, says. “I don’t cook, I don’t enjoy it at all – I’ve tried, and it’s a disaster.
“I’m not going to spend £50 on making dinner for it to turn out rubbish; that doesn’t make sense to me.
“People think it’s outrageous, but I didn’t know it was unusual because all my friends are the same.
“The people who say it’s cheaper to cook are probably just throwing some chicken nuggets in the oven.
“Food shopping is stressful, and ordering takeaways takes that stress away.”
According to Saffron, her life is too busy to justify spending hours over the stove.
She adds: “People are so concerned about my health, but I’m healthy, and I feel good.
“I just want to live life, and I think that when it’s your time, it’s your time.
“It’s inevitable, so I just want to live and enjoy life. I have the money, and life’s too short.”
On top of takeaways and meals out, she spends around £200 a week on snacks at the supermarket for any guests who visit her.
The full-time content creator – who boasts over 110,000 followers on TikTok, where she documents her life – went to cooking lessons in an attempt to improve her skills.
However, she couldn’t get the hang of it and quit before she’d even begun.
“I started making my own money when I was 16, and then I moved out,” she says.
“I believe that if I was from a family of cooks, it would be very different, but my family is a roast chicken and frozen Yorkshire pudding kind of family.
Food shopping is stressful, and ordering takeaways takes that stress away
Saffron Boswell
“I’ve even had cooking lessons, but I didn’t enjoy it.”
Saffron says her entire friendship group lives the same lifestyle, and it means she gets to see them every day.
She added: “I don’t just sit indoors all day eating takeaways. I go out with friends. I have a great social life, and I’m a very social person.
“We’ll go for a carvery or to Prezzo, which is my favourite. I could live there.
“I love Dominos, and I have my favourite takeaways or go to my favourite restaurants three or four times a week.
“People think it’s really unusual, but it’s my normal life.”