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Brainfogtothemax · 2026-01-05T13:26:40+00:00

What to do? Just prepped for dinner, did all the mince with tomatoes, onion etc and made the cheese sauce, boiled some potatoes and went to get the lasagna sheets and don’t have any. Not feeling 100% so cba going to the shops, how can I make it into a proper meal? I have some pasta I could use instead, but what about the potatoes? Save them for tomorrow 🤷🏻♀️

ocolo · 05/01/2026 14:51

Ragu con patatas. Forget about the pasta. Plenty of cheese please.

soupyspoon · 05/01/2026 14:51

Duckiewasthefirstniceguy · 05/01/2026 14:37

This is now my favourite windup thread of all time. I’m a little bit obsessed.

Me too, this is the sort of conversation that I have in my head all the time to be honest.

Zanzara · 05/01/2026 14:51

If you happened to have some spare leeks OP, you could slice them open lengthways, blanch them and then use the slices instead of the missing lasagne. I am given to understand this is a surprisingly successful dupe.

It would also help to address the absence of vegetables on the plate, you vitamin dodger you.

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Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:51

Bobiverse · 05/01/2026 14:45

Lasagne white sauce does not have cheese in it. What have you made?

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I really don’t know at this point, everything I thought about lasagna since my childhood is a lie, Dh has never queried the boiled potatoes or cheese sauce though
I’m ringing my mum

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Howwilliknow122 · 05/01/2026 14:50

Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:20

Does bechamel not have cheese in? I melt butter, flour, milk, then add grated cheese…I thought the cheese was the whole point, this thread is confusing 😂

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this thread is confusing 😂

Really op, you boiled potatoes whilst making a lasagna but the replies are confusing you... ok then 🤣🤣

Elmo230885 · 05/01/2026 14:50

Never have I gotten so invested in a thread so quickly.

I can understand your mental block OP. I would have Lasagne with a few chips (or other potatoes) but I wouldn't have pasta bake with them, even if the only difference is that the pasta is twirly rather than flat!

All the big talking points today.

I'm really wanting carbs for tea now...

JoshLymanSwagger · 05/01/2026 14:50

Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:47

I’ve taken on the suggestions, I will do the mince with mashed potato on top, then pour the cheese sauce over the top. Don’t know why but it seems a weird dish, no idea what to call it when Dh & Dd ask me

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The mince with mash on top is a cottage pie.

Use the bechamel sauce which isn't bechamel sauce and pour it over some macaroni or other shaped pasta to make "random shaped pasta" cheese.

ClaraLane · 05/01/2026 14:50

Can’t your husband bring lasagne sheets home from work with him?

Why does this need to be eaten today? Can you make something else for tonight, use the lasagne sheets your husband brings home to assemble it later and then cook it tomorrow?

sittingonabeach · 05/01/2026 14:49

Can DH get lasagne sheets on the way home @Brainfogtothemax

Bobiverse · 05/01/2026 14:48

Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:45

It’s honestly not a wind up 🫣 my mums lasagna since childhood was always served with boiled potatoes with butter and bechamel sauce always had grated cheese in. Flabbergasted how this is so outrageous

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Adding cheese to bechamel makes it a cheese sauce. Bechamel does not have cheee; it’s just a white sauce. The cheese on lasagne is added on top, the sauce is bechamel sauce not cheese sauce.

You’re not making lasagne and neither did your mum.

Faceonthewrongfoot · 05/01/2026 14:48

I'm honestly not sure what you want from this thread OP, if it's not a wind up. Your options are to use the ingredients you have to make a meal that isn't lasagne (saving anything you can't/won't use for another day), or save what you've made until you can buy lasagne sheets. That's it. Were you hoping that someone was going to come up some little known secret where sliced onions will actualy transform in to lasagne sheets if you springle them with cheese or something?

Allseeingallknowing · 05/01/2026 14:48

Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:45

It’s honestly not a wind up 🫣 my mums lasagna since childhood was always served with boiled potatoes with butter and bechamel sauce always had grated cheese in. Flabbergasted how this is so outrageous

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Too many carbs?

Mt563 · 05/01/2026 14:48

PinkElephants356 · 05/01/2026 14:45

Have you got any other type of pasta? I’ve done penne pasta mixed with bolognese, put it in a dish and pour the white sauce on the top and then add grated cheese. Then it’s a pasta bake.

Otherwise Tesco whoosh delivery?

but what about the potatoes?! 🤣

Poor op won't find a solution because she won't flex or buy anything lol.

What a funny thread!!

Edit: looks like op is making something. Honestly, that sounds like a delicious new dish, hope it tastes as good as I'm imagining!

JoshLymanSwagger · 05/01/2026 14:48

Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:45

It’s honestly not a wind up 🫣 my mums lasagna since childhood was always served with boiled potatoes with butter and bechamel sauce always had grated cheese in. Flabbergasted how this is so outrageous

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OK, well in that case, your mum wasn't making bechamel sauce, or lasagne tbh.

ToKittyornottoKitty · 05/01/2026 14:47

Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:42

But there’s a difference between a pasta dish and then potatoes on a plate and a slice of lasagna with a few potatoes on the side next to it, surely?! It just seems weird with the pasta dish. You also probably wouldn’t have a pasta dish with a plate of chips too, but a slice of lasagna with chips next to it is normal?!

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Lasagna is a pasta dish! Why can’t you understand that? It’s really really not a difficult concept.

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Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:47

RampantIvy · 05/01/2026 14:39

@Brainfogtothemax You have very rigid ideas about this and are reluctant to take on some of the excellent suggestions on this thread.
I sense that these is something else going on.

Failing that, you will just have to go to the shop and buy some lasagne sheets.

I’ve taken on the suggestions, I will do the mince with mashed potato on top, then pour the cheese sauce over the top. Don’t know why but it seems a weird dish, no idea what to call it when Dh & Dd ask me

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diddl · 05/01/2026 14:46

But there’s a difference between a pasta dish and then potatoes on a plate and a slice of lasagna with a few potatoes on the side next to it, surely?!

Only in your mind I think.

Faceonthewrongfoot · 05/01/2026 14:45

titchy · 05/01/2026 14:41

If you have a rolling pin and some spaghetti you could boil the spaghetti, then lay each piece tightly next to each other in lasagne sheet sized groups, press firmly with the rolling pin so they all stick together and hey presto - lasagne sheets!

Ooh, I'm thinking you could do this with conchiglie as well - boil til soft enough to carefully flatten with a rolling pin, and then put together like a weird pasta jigsaw puzzle to form lasagne sheets. Even better if you've got farfalle as I reckon they'll flatten to perfect little squares. Fusilli probably no good unless you're willing to individually untwist each one.

PinkElephants356 · 05/01/2026 14:45

Have you got any other type of pasta? I’ve done penne pasta mixed with bolognese, put it in a dish and pour the white sauce on the top and then add grated cheese. Then it’s a pasta bake.

Otherwise Tesco whoosh delivery?

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Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:45

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It’s honestly not a wind up 🫣 my mums lasagna since childhood was always served with boiled potatoes with butter and bechamel sauce always had grated cheese in. Flabbergasted how this is so outrageous

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Bobiverse · 05/01/2026 14:45

Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:14

It has cheese in

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Lasagne white sauce does not have cheese in it. What have you made?

Minjou · 05/01/2026 14:45

Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:42

But there’s a difference between a pasta dish and then potatoes on a plate and a slice of lasagna with a few potatoes on the side next to it, surely?! It just seems weird with the pasta dish. You also probably wouldn’t have a pasta dish with a plate of chips too, but a slice of lasagna with chips next to it is normal?!

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Pasta dish with potatoes or lasagne AKA a pasta dish with potatoes..... absolutely no difference at all.

JoshLymanSwagger · 05/01/2026 14:44

Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:42

But there’s a difference between a pasta dish and then potatoes on a plate and a slice of lasagna with a few potatoes on the side next to it, surely?! It just seems weird with the pasta dish. You also probably wouldn’t have a pasta dish with a plate of chips too, but a slice of lasagna with chips next to it is normal?!

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Maybe, but so far you ain't making lasagne, sooo....

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Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 14:42

Namechangeforthis88 · 05/01/2026 14:36

Dude! You were the one that brought potatoes into a lasagne neal in the first place! No one else! Now you're all "Potatoes? With pasta?". That is what you yourself put on the menu.

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But there’s a difference between a pasta dish and then potatoes on a plate and a slice of lasagna with a few potatoes on the side next to it, surely?! It just seems weird with the pasta dish. You also probably wouldn’t have a pasta dish with a plate of chips too, but a slice of lasagna with chips next to it is normal?!

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soupyspoon · 05/01/2026 14:42

Brainfogtothemax · 05/01/2026 13:59

Should i pour the bechamel over the mash?

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Certainly not.

Drink it out of wine glasses as an a paira teef

Obviously.