• 13 struggles you can relate to if you don’t like cooking

    Why is it so hard?

    When you calculate how much you spend buying food in a month just because you don’t want to cook

    I don’t believe my eyes

    This is how you struggle to eat indomie for the tenth night in a row

    God deliver me from this affliction

    How you show up at your friend’s house who likes to cook every weekend

    Surprise! It’s me again, what’s for lunch?

    Everyone at the food place near your house knows your name, surname and birthday

    Customer!!!

    You parent’s are tired of you showing up every weekend to beg for homemade food

    There’s just nothing like your mum’s jollof rice

    This is you on the rare occasion that you have to cook

    Why do bad things happen to good people

    And it’s not as if you don’t know how to cook o you just don’t understand why it has to be so stressful

    The stress

    You’ve not refilled your gas cooker in 3 years because the only thing you use it to cook is indomie

    At least you are saving money there

    How you feel when you get into a relationship with someone who loves to cook

    The Lord is good

    You’ll rather soak garri for breakfast, lunch and dinner than enter the kitchen to cook

    Garri never killed anybody

    How you feel when you manage to boil rice once a month

    Nobody talk to me, please

    This is what your fridge always looks like

    You don’t even have stew

    When your friends come over and ask you what you have to offer

    Will you like indomie or indomie?

    While you don’t like to cook we know you love to eat. So how do you feel about jollof rice?

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