Veggie Lasagna!

Yesterday, I made Veggie lasagna and it was very good.  Why veggie lasagna you ask?  Well, I am trying to make Mondays meatless in our house full of carnivores (Plus my kids just don't eat enough veggies.)  So Mondays are meatless until further notice from management me.  It was very scrumptous and each serving was only 206 calories, made 12 servings. Here is the recipe I made up followed:

Ingredients:

 Cooking spray 

 Barilla - Lasagna No Boil Noodles, 9 pieces

Italian Style Five Cheese Blend, shredded, 1 container (2 cup (28g) ea.)
Pasta Sauce: Tomato, Basil & Garlic, 1 container (2 1/2 cups ea.)
Onion - Raw, 1 cup, chopped
Olives, Ripe, Black -Sliced, 1 container (64 grams ea.)
Mushrooms - Raw, chopped (small container, I think it was 8 oz)
Squash, includes skin, raw, sliced medium Zucchini, includes skin, raw, sliced medium
Low-Fat Ricotta Cheese, 1 container (1 4/5 cups ea.) (I used Target brand for everything except the noodles. The olives say Kroger, but they were Target, odd.) Directions: Preheat oven to 375. Chop all the veggies and toss together in large mixing bowl. (I didn't layer my veggies individually because I was feeling lazy so I mixed them all together)  I used a 9x13 glass baking dish.  Sprayed the baking dish with cooking spray to prevent sticking. Spread pasta sauce on the bottom of pan (I used about 4 soup spoon fulls).  Lay 3 lasagna noodles side by side on the bottom of the pan, there might be spaces in betwen depending on your dish.  Spread 3 dollups of ricotta cheese covering the noodles.  Spread a few handfulls of veggies over the ricotta. Sprinkle a handful of the shredded cheese over the veggies.  Spread paste sause over cheese, about the same amount as before.  Then start over layering with noodles and lather, rinse, repeat.  Your last layer should be veggies covered with shredded cheese.  Pop it in the oven for about 35-45 minutes.  Then enjoy!! I used myfitnesspal.com to calculate the calories.  See screenshot below:

 

If you change the serving size to 8 people the calories are 309, which still isn't that bad. 

 

Hubby and I loved it, the girls liked it but once they discovered there wasn't any meat they weren't to happy.  (They still ate it of course, but there were faces made.)  The leftovers are wonderful.

 

Tonight is breakfast for dinner.  Eggs, bacon and whole wheat choco-chip pancakes! Yum!

 

Stefanie