How Brendan Fevola cut back on obscene $35k Uber Eats habit
Ex-AFL star Brendan Fevola is finally cutting back on his infamous Uber Eats diet after splashing $35,000 on food delivery in just 18 months. But his alternative method of feeding himself may not be much healthier.
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Former Carlton star Brendan Fevola has opened up about his tasty obsession that has spiralled out of control.
Fevola has admitted to an extreme reliance on home delivered food, revealing he orders meals and even snacks from Uber Eats up to four times a day.
And after racking up a bill of more than $35,000 with the delivery service in an 18-month period between 2017 and 2019 and continuing to be a very frequent customer since, Fevola is finally taking action — he has deleted the Uber Eats App from his phone so he can’t order on a whim.
“Seriously, it is a real issue of mine,” Fevola fessed up on his Fifi, Fev and Byron radio show.
“We get home at a certain time and I get hungry and you just eat and you eat.
“I was ordering Uber Eats, this is no word of a lie, a minimum of twice a day, sometimes up to four times because you order it to work. When you get home, then you have another snack, and then you might order dessert, then you order dinner.”
Fevola is adamant he is breaking his delivery habit with his self-imposed ban and has ceded control of the app to his fiancee, Alex.
“It is on Alex’s phone. If it is a weekend and it is a Saturday night we can still order it (home delivery) but I will not be (doing the) ordering,” he said.
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“I am done, I feel good.”
Fevola, who is on a fitness kick and toying with the idea of returning — again — to footy in a suburban league this year, said he had discovered that ordering meals via an app was not the only way to get food to your home.
“You know what you do, you get in your car and you go down like a normal person and you buy some takeaway,” he said. “I am going old school.”