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.
The 26-year-old year old hates cooking and hasn’t made herself a meal since she moved into her own place a decade ago.
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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 Nandos 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 works out cheaper than doing a food shop.
“If you’re cooking from scratch, it costs a fortune,” Saffron, from Brentwood, Essex, told What’s the Jam.
“I don’t cook, I don’t enjoy it at all – I’ve tried and it’s a disaster.
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“I’m not going to spend £50 on making dinner for it to turn out crap.
“It doesn’t make sense to me.
“People think its outrageous, but I didn’t know it was unusual because all my friends are the same.
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“The people who say it’s cheaper to cook are probably just throwing some chicken nuggets in the oven.
“Food shopping is stressful, and it [ordering food] takes that stress away.
“My life is so on the go, I don’t have time to spend hours over the stove.
“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.
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 but couldn’t get the hang of it.
Saffron said: “I started making my own money when I was 16 and then I moved out.
“I believe that if I was from a family of cooks, it would be very different but my family are a roast chicken and frozen Yorkshire pudding kind of family.
“I’ve even had cooking lessons but I didn’t enjoy it.”
Saffron says her entire friendship group live 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 in there.
“I love dominoes 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 its my normal life.”
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