Supermarket savvy dad saves £3,360 on kebabs and Chinese food by making his own ‘fakeaways’ from home

MONEY saving dad Calum Matheson started making his own takeaways from home after his favourite Chinese went downhill – and now he’s saving a fortune.

When he has his partner Fiona, 43, daughter Cara, 10, and his retired mother Ceila, 72, stay over, he can feed all four of them for £20 a week.He finds all the best bargains by browsing different shopsAs a family, they cook Chinese banquets with four or five different meals, including prawn and chicken stir fry rice and even salt and pepper squid.

“Without sounding negative, the main reason I started making fakeaways is because the food in my main takeaway got really bad.“Now I can feed a family of four easily for an entire week, if I get yellow stickers, for just £20. That could be my entire food shop.Together the family make curries for a fraction of the priceCredit: Calum Matheson

Add light and dark soya sauce, a little sugar and black and white pepper. Cook for another five minutes until the rice is turning brown and has soaked up all the flavours.Calum’s love of cooking started 12 years ago when he first visited Thailand.

I've saved over £100,000 on flying to New York first class 10 times this year by not flying first class to New York 10 times..... and it's still January, think how rich I'll be by the end of the year!

“Man cooks”

Man cooks meals in his kitchen - that's what I call shocking news.

🚨Stop the Press Headline Shocker Exclusive Man saves £175 a year by not buying the Sun newspaper and uses money to buy a takeaway as a treat. 😏😏😉😉😊😊

A man cooking is news? 🤨

I cook fresh most nights, I call it a meal, not a fakeaway.....FFS 😫😫😫😫

So in other words man cooks dinner at home

Wow. He cooked his own dinner. Revolutionary

kiebolton18 maybe you could learn to cook after all

I saved thousands this year by buying takeaways instead of eating in a Michelin starred restaurants everynight! Write a story about me!

Printing savvy newspaper saves money on ink by just shitting on the page

Revolutionary idea 👏👏

It’s called being an adult by cooking.

fakeaways - aka cooking?

OMG how would we have ever managed without this LifeHack 🤦‍♀️

Hope you get a Pulitzer for this groundbreaking journalism ManCooksDinner

Fuck me, that's an expensive kebab

honestly, the sun has gone to shit. you're posting about a man finally learning to make his own food and a multitude of popular Reddit posts. give up

Not all heroes wear capes.

He cooked food in the kitchen.

man cooks.

Cant wait to tell the lads about this

And causes loss to GDP...

Does nobody cook in the UK anymore or something?

I don't know what's scarier - the fact that this implies he'd lived only off of takeaways before discovering something called a kitchen, or that this is considered journalism?

Local man buys discounted groceries, prepares foreign cuisine.

cutting edge journalism

Man can cook. Fucking sensational.

This is the sort of article that the sun love to put out there because it gets comments which gives them more exposure. Just block them altogether

So he cooks?

Save yourself £225 each year by not buying the Sun and instead just make the news up.

Breaking: Man bakes bread. Riveting!

It's called cooking, Human race has been doing it for a few years now.🤔

He bought some shopping and cooked dinner. He didn't translate the Rosetta stone or transform lead into gold. He cooked dinner, like most people do every fucking day.

This isn't news.

In other words.. 'man cooks dinner'

'Serve the nan bread' Im sorry. Nan? Fucking hell its a story that is effectively 'Man cooks his own dinner with food from shop' the least you could do is fucking proofread.

Fucking hell. Somone cooks dinner. Someone get Barry Pulitzer on the phone we've got a contender

Isn’t this just… cooking?

Man cooks food...

Thank god for this article, was just off to kfc for the 17th time this week because no one ever told me you can cook food yourself

The old Theresa May life hack, cooking food and then eating it

So Making dinner like people do normally

Man saves money by making food...

God, the bar for men really is as low as it can be, huh?

Mums do this every single day, but hey! Hold the boat; a man did it, stick it in the newspaper.

I saved several thousand pounds last year by living in my house and not living in a fancy hotel. If more would follow my example the economy would be in a better state.

'saves'

Man bites dog. Man cooks.... Wait, what? Tea.

Breaking news - man cooks dinners

This isn’t new knowledge. This is a thing most people do.

I've got a better money-saving tip: Don't buy the Sun, it's a rabble-rousing shitrag. You're welcome.

Wow! This is amazing! What a great idea for a TV show too. He could make a mint selling the format all over the world, if only it hadn't been done by the BBC years ago.

So he is cooking

How often is the bloke having a takeaway if hes saving £3,360? He'd have to be having it every day for breakfast lunch and dinner.

This is also known as 'cooking' GetInTheSea...

Isn’t that just called ‘cooking a meal’?

Do your readers live in last century? What the fuck is wrong with you? Of course some men cook and of course some white people can cook Chinese and Indian food, I guess a few racist misogynists might be surprised.

So savvy. What a hero

I cook at home too. Some of us don't live on takeaways.

Jesus wept🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

LOL you've fallen for his lies. That's quite clearly cocaine.

I reckon I've saved over £5000 this year alone by 'cooking food' instead of booking a table at a Michelin star restaurant every night. Put me on the front page.

I saved £300 a year by not buying your shit newspaper 🤷‍♂️

Wow man shops and cooks. Groundbreaking stuff.

My favorite Chinese place is in Yokohama, so I save a £1k plane fare every time I order from my local instead!

Is...is this the onion?

You mean he cooks like every other normal person? What next, man saves thousands on petrol by walking to the shop?

I saved tens of thousands by making sandwiches for work andnot going to the Dorchester for lunch every day. I claim my story!

This is either the best satire I've read in a while or just a really desperate attempt to clicks

Jfc the bar for men is literally on the ground.

A man cooks at home instead of buying take away, to save money Well I never....

as if this is newsworthy what

M8 pls, it's always cheaper to cook your own shit

Unparalleled heroic thrift.

Man cooks own food and saves money 👌🏼 thank fuck I didn’t get a journalism degree the level of work must’ve been horrendous to get to this standard 🤮

The utter state of journalism I tell you.

Breaking news

Soooooo he bought groceries and made food at home?

wow he invented cooking

lukeandpeteshow lukeaaronmoore petedonaldson

BREAKING: Local dude cooks dinner

Man cooks for family.... news at 11....

Truth savvy person with half a brain saves roughly £175 a year by simply not buying your “paper”...

I cooked dinner where's my article

Most of us call this 'cooking' and it is surprisingly quite common.

men be cooking

Is it really newsworthy to hear that a man is cooking dinner?

I saved £20 on an Italian meal for two this evening. Can I be in your shitty paper too?

Man cooks dinner is news now?

I’ve saved £15k this year on hotels by just sleeping in my own home! Genius 👌

Isn’t this just... cooking dinner?

Do we really live in a world where you’re considered “savvy” for cooking food?

All he’s doing is cooking. This isn’t savvy, it’s insanely common.

Don’t read/buy the Scum jft96

Sure he's making a pizza in that first pic?

So... he cooked food rather than buying prepared meals?

'Man Cooks His Own Meals'

That's journalism.

Local man cooks, what bravery!

Man cooks food. News at 11

I create my own pub by purchasing beer at the supermarket and drinking it at home...

So he cooks...is that what you're trying to fucking tell us. Man basically cooks homemade food.

'man cooks dinner'

You know that room in your house or flat with the cold box and the tub of water? Well you likely have another appliance that gets hot when you turn it on. You can cook things on it. It’s called a cooker or an oven. Try it!

anthonypotts_ you could buy a second house if you did this 😂

What utter rubbish your rag prints 🤣

You wonder why people don’t buy newspapers and you make an article about a man who cooked food

'Area man cooks food'

Liverpool is missing nothing by not buying your shite

You don’t say.

I'm a man, where can I learn to cook like this man? Please help me, I'm starving.... Cutting edge journalism lads! 👍

NiamhHalf kevinbridges86 wee hoose rice

Yeah and I've saved £5000 by never playing the lottery, you Scouse-hating shafts.

rosiejcmellors STOP PRESS!! MAN COOKS. Also who is spending £280 a month on takeaways?

This is what people mean when they say the bar for men is set so low :P I'm sat here eating dinner now, I'm not in the paper, coz I only get a takeaway once or twice a month :P

Did he really need that much cocaine tho

Also known as cooking

My god, fantastic journalism.

Fake news

Man cooks at home. Comic book journalism...

Why do right-wingers keep praising buying discounted food like it's some brand-new ultra-secret lifehack, and not common knowledge. Also, those meals don't look particularly nutritious or healthy.

isn't the sun like a real version of the onion?

A Sun soeciality. Fake news.

Boycott the sun boycottthesun

That's... what women do every day.

It's hard to fathom why newspaper sales are dropping when journalists are risking the frontline investigating such ground-breaking stories as man actually shops and cooks. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

In short,tight bastard makes his own dinners.

ThomasHolliday8 man makes food

Obviously puts no monetary value on his own time spent cooking and cleaning then. Nobheads

Man cooks at home ffs

Man Cooks.

Man Cooks His Own Tea. Journalism.

Just another slow news day - as society slowly collapses like a flan in the cupboard.

He doesn't SAVE £3,360 he spends £10 a week that's £520 a year he SPENDS on 'fakeaway' food assuming his family doesn't stay or its £20 a week.....

and I will bet you a pound to a penny they taste fuck all like the real thing.

Where the Fuck does he buy his Takeaways from if he's Saving £3,360? X

Shock guy cooks food and doesn't eat out! I made myself a cheese toastie with homemade bread can i get a story sun and get some money towards my drinking fund 😂🙈

'Man cooks dinner' - What a newsworthy concept!

Or just have a pot noodle.

Sounds like a absolute fun sponge. If he’s not single and living with his mother then the Mrs is absolutely shagging anyone in the office who’s willing to take her to Morley’s or subway at lunch

Man makes his own tea!!!

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