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Here's a lasagne-type dish, layered with potatoes instead of pasta, and it's only 205 calories! Admittedly, it's vegan, and the cheese substitutes are very low calorie - but try it, it's a very tasty dish indeed. And very filling!

http://www.nobreadisanisland.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/52-diet-lasagne-layered-with-potato.html

And on another day it's great for using up left-over bolognaise sauce!

[carorees]

That looks great! Would be interested to know whether one could get away with some grated cheese instead of the powder. How did you cook the potatoes after slicing? When I do Dauphinoise potatoes, I par boil the sliced potatoes but don't try to arrange them in the dish because they break up. How do you avoid this in the lasagne?

Hi Caroline

I do parboil the potatoes, but keep a very close eye on them - as soon as I can get a knife through, I drain them and layer up.

Or you could use aubergines...you can play around with this as you wish!

I used to use grated cheese with this dish before I became a vegan - if you used 2 layers, and 25g of cheese for each layer, that would increase the calorie count by 208, by my reckoning - but that's for 2 meals, so 104 for each.

205 + 104 - still comes in at just over 300. And you'd be using less potatoes, with only two layers - that would bring it down a bit.

Someone on Mumsnet suggested using Quark - never used it, myself.

Cheers, Paul

Edited to say you could microwave the potatoes, whole, then slice them up when the potato is cooked!