Would you serve lasagna with baked potatoes?

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Prompted by a conversation with my parents..

I would serve lasagna (the traditional meat version) with a side salad and possibly garlic bread.
My parents like to serve it with a (large) baked potato. I reckon this is far too much stodge and you shouldn't serve lasagna with baked potato, but my parents reckon they have been to many restaurants that served it thus.

How do you like your lasagna?

We just like it with garlic bread and green salad.

Never had it with a baked potato but wouldn't rule it out. I have mine with either new potatoes, veg and garlic bread, salad and garlic bread or chips and garlic bread, but I love carbs!

I grew up having it with jacket potatoes, I feel like there’s something meaning missing when restaurants serve it with salad

We serve it with salad.

A jacket potato or bread is too stodgy imo.

My mum always serves it with salad and jacket potato. I serve with salad and garlic bread in summer, jacket potato or chips in winter.

It reminds me of my Brother's wedding in Ireland. We ate as a family group the night before the wedding. DB ordered Spag Bol and they brought him a HUUUGE bowl of Spag Bol. Then a vegetable side plate arrived for him with roast and mashed potatoes for him, next a second side plate turned up with mashed swede, peas and carrots ... and then a jug of gravy. Apparently all main courses (even Spag Bol) are served with 2 types of potatoes, a selection of veg and gravy!

Salad or green veg only. Potatoes and or bread = carb overload. Plenty of carbs in the pasta!

Gross no way. Not even garlic bread really, unless I need to stretch it.

I serve it with broccoli or peas and carrots

No, but this life is far too short to give two hoots about what anyone else is up to.

Lasagna and garlic bread is my traditional pre-marathon carb loading meal. Droooooolz.

Not for me. Love them individually but together as PPs have said = carb-overload. Salad is all I want with lasagne, it's so filling in itself (the lasagne not the salad).

Salad and garlic bread.

Reading this thinking most of you are probably English and would have a heart attack if you came to Scotland and witnessed one of my favourite meals (though I don't have it often)

Macaroni cheese PIE with chips! 😂😂

Mum serves shepherds pie with roast potatoes and peas too...

"Love that folks are saying too carby with JP but not GB.

Spud vs bread? Same thing"

Also garlic bread can be quite oily/fatty!

I'd also like to introduce you guys to the delight that is jacket potatoes topped with macaroni cheese AND grated cheese, sometimes with the addition of baked beans

Yes we still sometimes struggle with healthy eating up here but it's very tasty

Graphista!

I like it with a baked potato but would give everyone half a one!

It’s usually served with chips and salad when I’ve had it in restaurants.

I can only eat lasagna with salad if it is cold because warm lettuce is gross

Use a side plate for the salad?

Those saying it's no different from having pizza with chips.... well exactly. Pizza with chips would be equally wrong. I've never eaten chips with pizza in my life! Salad with lasagne or pizza.

I often have lasagne with jacket potato. Otherwise with chips. They are no more carby than garlic bread as I find eating lasagne with garlic bread awkward as you use knife and fork for the lasagne and salad but fingers for garlic bread. That works if it's pasta like macaroni you just eat with a fork.

No, just salad.

With chips and salad of in a restaurant. Just on its own if homemade. I gave up buying salad ages ago. It used to just get thrown out every week.

“It's no different to having pizza and chips or burger in a burger bun and chips”

I agree, which is why I would never have chips with pizza. I mean, you would have to be pretty stingy with your pizza portions to need chips, or greedy if you can eat a whole pizza and chips. When I do burgers at home I do either chips or a bun, not both. Neither OH nor I can manage both.

Cauliflower here - it’s yum

I wouldn’t but it’s still double carbing to serve with garlic bread.

I agree with most people here that I'd never serve lasagne with potatoes, but I do love quiche with a few chips, or a steak pie with new pots, for example, so that's pretty carb-heavy too, no?

I wouldn’t have burger without chips!

Veggie lasagne and chips is my ultimate comfort food. I like it with garlic bread and salad too or just salad and that would be the norm, but with chips if I fancy it. A baked potato wouldn't be my first choice but 🤷🏼‍♀️

With garlic bread or chips in a pub if you’ve been riding your mountain bike all day in winter.

Salad or cooked veg like broccoli any other time!