Are our crumbling cooking skills fuelling the food waste mountain?

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What can be done to help families cut food waste which would save the average UK family £60 a month and have a positive environmental impact?

Are our cooking skills crumbling? And if so is a skills gap at least partly to blame for the UK's food waste mountain? To answer these questions, the environment charity Hubbub and Unilever have recently...

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