Trim Healthy Mama Save Your Waistline Crockpot Lasagna Review

Italian food has been on my mind this last week. I have two friends that are currently in Italy and sharing the most beautiful pictures, and then another friend asked me to go with her to eat at Johnny Carino’s to celebrate her birthday. I had never been to this Italian restaurant before this week, and just saying, if you are celebrating a birthday when you visit, let them bring you cake. And eat it. Oh my goodness, it was amazing. The Salesman has also been talking about Italian food this last week. So what is a mama to do? Grab a Trim Healthy Mama cookbook and search the index, grab an apron, and get busy!

Mark this one in your cookbooks, Mamas, because it is so good, and it is a crockpot recipe:

Cookbook: Trim Healthy Table

Chapter: Sanity Saving Crockpot & Electric Pressure Cooker Meals

Page: 86
Recipe: Save Your Waistline Crockpot Lasagna
Serving: Family Serve – Feeds 6-8 (Halve if your family is smaller, or make full and freeze half)
Fuel: S – Satisfying

I have always thought that making lasagna was a labor-intensive dish, but always worth the effort. I feel the same about the Trim Healthy Mama Save Your Waistline Crockpot Lasagna. It is worth the time and all the dishes to make this one. If you brown your meat ahead of time, like the Trim Healthy Mamas suggest, you will save some time on your prepping.

The first step only intensified my Italian food thoughts. As I added the pizza sauce and Italian spices to the meat, my kitchen smelled as delicious as any kitchen in Tuscany!

How does the recipe save your waistline? By using either zucchini or yellow squash versus noodle layers. Goodbye starchy noodles, hello tender and flavorful vegetables.

I alternated layers of meat sauce, a cottage cheese mixture, zucchini and squash, and then shredded cheese, and then repeated all layers and added parmesan cheese to the top.

My house smelled amazing all day long…

Taking the lid off at dinner time was the best.

The instructions state that you should let the lasagna settle for an hour before cutting it to serve.

But *someone* could not wait an hour… This side showcases the zucchini and yellow squash layers.

And this picture shows the tender seeds mixed in with the flavorful sauce. If you let the lasagna sit as instructed, you will not have the liquid on your plate.

This recipe is a four thumbs up! Me, The Salesman, and two of my friends tried this one, and thought it was Mmm Good. And I found a video clip of Serene and Pearl making this recipe for a news station promoting their Trim Healthy Table cookbook here.

Enjoy!