5 a day low cost lasagne

I'm back after a hectic weekend and it's one of my favourite school holidays, the Halloween half term! The crafting with leaves, cooking comforting winter warmers and decorating the house for our Halloween party. I have to admit at this point, I hate recipes and I'm finding this difficult as I don't really work in set quantities. I'm more of a chuck it in and hope for the best kind of girl and it usually pays off. So I'll do my best with this next recipe but I promise you, you can't go wrong use whatever vegetables you want! So cheap as it's meat free but definitely as tasty (if not tastier) here's my roasted veggie lasagne.

Any veg you like (as long as it's chunky)

Example recipe

2 carrots 

2 red onions

3 peppers different colours for variation

Courgette

Butternut squash

Whole bulb garlic

2 jars of tomato pasta sauce

Lasagne sheets (as many as you need for a rectangle oven dish)

For the home made white sauce

Butter

Flour

Milk

Cheese

Cube all the vegetables so they're roughly the same size.

Preheat oven to 200

Put cubed vegetables into a roasting tin with a good glug of oil and salt and pepper

After 30 mins, or when the veg is nicely soft and roasted transfer into  pan on the hob on a medium heat and warm through with the two jars of sauce, making sure you take the roasted garlic out of it's skin.

Meanwhile get a wooden spoon full of butter and melt on a medium heat in another pan.

Add to the butter a heaped tablespoon of flour and stir rapidly until it forms a thick paste (roux)

Gradually add milk whisking until the lumps come out until you have a white sauce that's not to thick not too runny but it really doesn't matter.

Add some grated cheese (as much or as little as you like just keep tasting until it's to your liking)

Now you have your red and white layers ready you need an oven proof dish to assemble the lasagne.

I soak the pasta sheets prior to making the lasagne so they're soft, pour boiling water over them in a dish for a couple of minutes and they'll be ready. Take care to make sure they don't stick to each other though although again it won't matter.

Starting with half of the red mixture line the bottom of your dish with it and  cover totally with pasta sheets.

Top these with half of the white sauce and repeat.

Sprinkle with grated cheese and season with some pepper and bake at 200 for 25 minutes or until cheese is bubbling and golden. Serve with salad, chips, garlic bread or all three to make it stretch! I guarantee you won't miss the surprise pieces of gristle you get with mince.