Roasted Veggie Lasagna

I forgot to take the normal step by step pictures, but I wanted to post this one anyways because it came out totally tasty and very low calorie!  Double bonus :)

Veggie Lasagna 

 

 

Ingredients

• 3 servings whole wheat lasagna
• 1 jar of sauce
• 2 servings chick peas
• 1 1/2 cups ricotta
• 1 cup pieces or slices mushrooms
• 1 cup spinach
• 3 medium zucchini
• 2 large peppers
• 2 cups shredded mozz cheese

Directions

1. roast veggies ahead of time by layering them on a cookie sheet, lightly misting with olive oil and adding some garlic and pepper, cook noodles, layer everything together, bake at 350 for 1 hour covered.

Meat free Hummus Wrap

Okay so I made this one afternoon and fell totally in love. I've made it about 10 times since, adjusting things around, trying different stuff in them and no matter what, it's always good!

First of all, I found these awesome low calorie wraps. They are called "Flat Out" and they are 90 calories. I love that they are soft, but be warned, wet wraps like stuff loaded with salsa causes them to fall right apart. But for the hummus wrap, these are perfect.

So onto the super easy part...
Just spread some Hummus (I've used plain and roasted red pepper) onto the wrap. I use 2 tablespoons. Then I add one tablespoon of ranch. I just love ranch and can't seem to cut it out of my diet.

I slice the cucumbers into long slices and layer them onto of a bed of spinach. Then I added some sprouts and some egg whites on this one.  Sprinkle a little garlic salt and enjoy!!

Alternate foods I've used have been onions, peppers, sunflower seeds and fresh green beans, but the options are unlimited!

Italian Zucchini Sticks

Ok so I only made enough of these for one serving, so excuse the measurements (or lack thereof haha) I just sort of "winged" it ;)

These were VERY delicious though! Can't wait to have them again (probably this week) :)

And I used Italian Bread Crumbs, but I would have preferred Whole Wheat bread crumbs that I had seasoned myself...I just couldn't find them at the store...guess I'll have to make my own when I have some wheat bread that needs used up!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 of a Medium/Large Zucchini (or 1 small)
• 1/3 cup of Italian Bread Crumbs
• 2 TBSP Parmesan Cheese
• 1 large egg white
• Extra Seasoning to Taste (I used Onion Powder and Garlic Salt and fresh Ground Pepper)
• Spray Olive Oil
• Marinara for dipping

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425º. Spray a baking sheet with Olive Oil. 
2. Cut your zucchini into sticks (like a French Fry). Put your bread crumbs/parm/spices into one bowl and your egg white in another bowl.
3. Cover your zucchini sticks in egg white and then in the bread crumb mixture and place on the baking  sheet. When you've covered all of the sticks spray the sticks with Olive Oil and place into the oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown (I did turn mine once during baking).
4. Serve while hot with marinara sauce!

Servings: 1

Original Recipe can be found HERE.

Zucchini Noodles

These "guiltless" noodles are ah-mazing!  Not only that, but they are so easy to do, low calorie and you are getting in some veggies instead of carbs!

Ingredients
Zucchini (one per serving)
Olive oil for coating
Garlic salt

Yep that's it!!

 First take your zucchini and your handy little veggie peeler and slice down the zucchini creating your "noodles" until you have them all peeled up.

Then take your olive oil and a light coating to your pan. To save calories, use the Misto bottle! I love this thing!! If you are anything like I was, you just dump the oil into the pan right? Well that's adding a lot of extra calories. One tablespoon of olive oil is 120 calories, when you just dump it in the pan, you are getting around 3 to 4 spoon fulls easy. With the sprayer, I might get 1 at most!!

Okay now that your pan is coated, turn your burner on medium high heat, put all your zucchini into the pan.

You want to cook it until it starts to get the nice golden edges. I let mine sit for a bit then stir, once it starts to brown up, it goes pretty fast. Actually the whole meal is fast. Less then 10 minutes total I'd say.

 At this point I add my garlic salt. You could add it at anytime, and you could skip the sodium and add just garlic if you wanted.  See how nice and golden they are starting to look? Oh and the smell is just delish!!

I consider these ready to eat! Time to pour them into my bowl and gobble them up :)