Healthy Lasagna Recipe
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This easy Healthy Lasagna is stuffed full of lean protein and delicious vegetables for a complete one dish meal. I am not sure if this post qualifies as sponsored, so just to cover my bases: I was paid a small stipend to appear on TV discussing the lasagna that this lasagna is adapted from.
This lasagna has quite the story to go with it! Because as you may or may not remember, I am not the world’s biggest fan of traditional red sauce Italian American dishes. And yet somehow I ended up on TV, on local Dayton news, talking about how to make a very basic Skinny Lasagna recipe created by Red Gold Tomatoes.
Lest you think this completely hypocritical, rest assured I did make the lasagna and my family did love it. This is both the…
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