"No Garbage Lasagna"

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  • MsEndomorph
    MsEndomorph Posts: 604 Member
    but at the end of the day both toes still hurt!
    just saying...

    Very true, but I think we'll all be ok. I really, really do. The difference between toes and words is that when I hurt you physically, I have the power to make you feel a certain way. With words, the receiver has the power. Someone giving you a label (or your food a label) can only cause you pain if you accept it. If I call you a butterfly, it would only upset you if took it as negative intent and internalized it. We all do it. I just don't think it's wise to do it over something as trivial as cheese, because in the end you're left with the pain and it isn't worth it.

    I'm about to go eat me some garbage now. Cheese, no pasta. I don't really like pasta's calorie to satiation level. I need a lot more calories of pasta to feel "done" than cheese. Probably because I don't eat cheese as a major part of the meal - more of a garnish.
  • FlaxMilk
    FlaxMilk Posts: 3,452 Member
    The next time someone makes me an eggplant lasagna, I'm going to complain that he called it the wrong thing since it has no noodles. (Maybe just in my head. I still want him to make it for me again.)

    Thanks for your sharing the recipe OP! The pictures look really great.
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    Please stop perpetuating the belief that certain foods are 'garbage', it's embarrassing for anyone intelligent enough to know that it's a load of...well, garbage

    I'm a vegan.
    I've lost 111 pounds.

    For me (and most others): "White pasta + too much cheese + highly saturated fatty meat" = lasagna IS garbage. Modifying classics to meet a better diet is, in no way, a bad thing. Borrowing the name of a type of dish is also not a crime.

    Hmm, I'm *not* vegan, I eat white pasta, cheese, and meat and have lost more, soooo...

    But I'm going to give this a try. :)
  • sharonfoustmills
    sharonfoustmills Posts: 519 Member
    Might try that as a side dish, but have to agree with others it is an insult to real Italian lasagna. Certainly do appreciate free recipe ideas though, I would just have to call this something besides lasanga. :)

    I make diet lasagna using the whole wheat noodles, soy meat crumbles, shredded skim milk cheeses and sauce, and it is pretty friggin awesome to eat, have it with a salad and you can stay under 500 calories with it and have hardly any fat in it. Oh, and I do have my garlic bread too, brush cut bread with grapeseed oil, shakes some spices on it and then grill it on skillet (add no extra oils or fats). I think it's important to not feel you are missing out on everything good in life, because you won't stay on track for a lifetime if you use plans that are too stringent and restricting. I tried the other way, and I lost weight and kept it off for two years but then fell off-track and gained all the weight back plus extra because I was sick of being deprived of my favorite meals, so now I am learning to adapt those favorites where they are still delicious but healthier.

    This isn't a restriction for me. I don't eat dairy so cheese is a non issue.
    As for pasta, I've never been a big fan anyway.

    I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. :)

    You might not feel you are missing anything, and that is what matters, but ME, this would not work for me, I would be missing some things BIG TIME with this dish. Like I said, this would be my idea of a vegetable side dish.
  • RivenV
    RivenV Posts: 1,667 Member
    Please stop perpetuating the belief that certain foods are 'garbage', it's embarrassing for anyone intelligent enough to know that it's a load of...well, garbage

    I'm a vegan.
    I've lost 111 pounds.

    For me (and most others): "White pasta + too much cheese + highly saturated fatty meat" = lasagna IS garbage. Modifying classics to meet a better diet is, in no way, a bad thing. Borrowing the name of a type of dish is also not a crime.

    Hmm, I'm *not* vegan, I eat white pasta, cheese, and meat and have lost more, soooo...

    But I'm going to give this a try. :)

    Maybe you had more to lose and, as a result, have lost more. Good for you for your progress--bad for you for smugly looking down your nose at other peoples' eating habits.

    Maybe give being less condescending a try, too :)
  • emyishardcore
    emyishardcore Posts: 352 Member
    looks good!

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