Frying-pan Cheese and Tomato Toastie

Course: lunch Skill level: easy Serves: 2

25 g (1 oz) butter

4 slices of stale bread

Your choice of cheese – whatever you’ve got in the fridge: Cheddar, mozzarella, gouda etc.

Your favourite Isle of Wight tomatoes, sliced Optional: ham, salami, chutney etc.

1 Butter the bread and arrange the cheese, tomato and other ingredients over half of the slices, buttered side down.

2 Pre-heat a frying-pan and cook the sandwiches for 2 minutes on each side. They’re ready when you see a golden brown colour on the bread and melted cheese.

If we all stopped wasting bread at home in the UK for a year, it could do the same for greenhouse gas emissions as planting 5.3 million trees. Source: Wrap

Source: Wrap UK homes throw away around 20 million whole slices of bread per day, but that’s 33% less than we threw away in 2007.