The tasty dish tastes even better with the bread base / europics.at

Catering boss Tiziano Vicentini is planning to clean up with an amazing range of edible plates - that never need washing.

The plates - made out of a kind of bread dough - are tough enough to last a lunchtime but tasty enough to eat afterwards.

He told the Austrian Times: "I used to work in school catering and watching all that money being thrown away was criminal.

"These dishes cost a few pennies each and are either eaten by the kids or go into recycling bins for animal food."

Tiziano, 50, of Milan, Italy, had the brainwave after years of watching schools waste money on plastic plates and dishes and expensive dishwashers.