How cheese on toast could be losing British families £70 a year

It may seem like the perfect between-meals snack or post-pub treat, but making cheese on toast is costing the average family a lot of money, according to new research.

The apparently simple dish apparently costs around £70 a household each year in wastage because of the amount of cheese that we let drip into the grill pan in our rush to eat.

A study looked at 100 men and women, including teenagers, who were asked to make cheese on toast exactly as they made it at home.

Each person was given a household block of cheese and an average sliced loaf of bread.

But 83 people cut "wildly uneven" slices of cheese with some pieces twice as large at one end as at the other. Each person's amount of cheese was weighed before being grilled and this averaged out at 50 grams per slice. Also in an attempt to cover all of the bread many people crammed cheese on every available bit of surface space.

This resulted in 77 cases where cheese was slightly hanging over the side of the bread.

"I cannot believe that people are really too busy or too lazy to properly cut cheese".