Trader Joe's Roasted Vegetable Multi-Grain Lasagna

When I think of lasagna, I think of Sunday dinner. I think of thick dreamy layers of deliciousness interrupted by a single layer of pasta between the dreaminess. To this point, Trader Joe's has not knocked it out of the park with their lasagna offerings.

Taste

And their Roasted Vegetable Multi-Grain Lasagna didn't knock it out of the park for me either.

Now, I've never found any frozen lasagna that can even remotely compete with Nonna's lasagna. You'll have to go in deep into a solid Italian grocer for one of those.

However, if you are shopping at Trader Joe's you have options, but none of them are that great. The refrigerated lasagna had the single strangest meat texture I've ever encountered. It reminded me of how finely processed Taco Bell's meat is but with an extra bit of rubberiness that really should never be experienced.

And then the other option I've tried is the frozen lasagna. It too makes for a mediocre meal.

And then there was the seasonal and now discontinued Shrimp Scampi Lasagna which had some potential to be a delicious dish but was just strange in execution.

Now, rounding out the last of the lasagna options is Trader Joe's Roasted Vegetable Multi-Grain Lasagna. However, it seems I saved the worst for last.

For the most part, this looks exactly the way it is pictured on the box. However, it is still deeply flawed.

This lasagna is more pasta than filling. Never a good sign in my book.

And as for the veggies, it seemed that every imaginable variety that was leftover got dumped into this dish. I had everything from broccoli to cauliflower to peppers to carrots and zucchini. None of which are bad on their own.

But randomly dumping them between sheets of pasta is a bit of an injustice to both lasagna and the veggies themselves. You can make really flavorful layers with veggies, but that just wasn't the case here.

But this ended up tasting like some cafeteria lady's veggie lasagna surprise.

And despite me following the "preferred method" of cooking aka the microwave even the pasta was lackluster and total mush.

Overall

For $5.99, please do yourself a favor. Make your own. It will cost just about as much as this did but will be exponentially better in quality.

Would I buy this again? Trader Joe's Roasted Vegetable Multi-Grain Lasagna is a big no from me. With a jar of sauce, no-boil noodles, and some creativity for the middle layers, you'll get the same result for about the same price.

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