Amy’s Kitchen Cheese Lasagna

February 16, 2007 | Reviewer: Jess

Amy's Kitchen Cheese Lasagna

Price: $3.89
Serving: 1 tray, 10.3 oz.
Calories: 380
Fat: 22%, 14g
Cholesterol: 15%, 45mg
Sodium: 28%, 680mg
Protein: 20g
Carbs: 15%, 44g
Fiber: 16%, 4g

Amy’s Kitchen says: Amy’s vegetable lasagnas are extremely popular. However, we do get requests from customers (especially kids) for a traditional cheese lasagna without vegetables. So we asked our chef, Fred, to create one that would appeal to both children and adults. Amy’s Cheese Lasagna is made with tender organic pasta, a simple tasty marinara sauce and five cheeses carefully chosen for flavor and creaminess.

Jess says: Guess what? Abi bought me a cheese lasagna! I think she felt pretty bad about buying me that Gardenburger Margherita Wrap, which was so bad I had to show it around the office and mock it before I ate it. Also she knows I was bummed to find out that Amy’s Veggie Lasagna is lactose-free… you know for the weak-boweled vegans.

I would like to please Abi and rave about this lasagna, but alas, I cannot. Still, like my 10th grade creative writing teacher said, let’s start with the positives. Amy’s Cheese Lasagna IS cheesy and there is even real ricotta in there (I actually didn’t read the ingredients but it tasted like real ricotta). Also it is tasty. It tastes like lasagna and lasagna is a friend of mine.

Here’s the trouble. This took 9+ minutes in the micry. In fact, I had to keep taking it out and poking the ever cold center and then giving it another 40 seconds on 50%. Then I decided that I hate the half power method, covered it with a plate and did it full blast. Sure, I heard it splatter something terrible, but it needed to be done. Luckily I had been all absorbed in my work all afternoon (kids in the hall videos are on youtube!) and forgot to eat until 2pm so it wasn’t such a big deal. But if this food preparation had happened at 12, I can guarantee that someone would have gotten passive aggressively sighish behind me. There may have even been some collective sarcasm jabs from the ever growing line of hungry coworkers behind me, as they plotted to oust my lasagna the moment I got bored with watching it spin!

Back to the lasagna, the marinara is thin and splatterriffic. I just got a new laptop after sort of dropping and causing some blue screen action to my old one. So the splatter effect was not appreciated. What I would have appreciated was a chunky organic tomato thickness. But really, the main issue with this lasagna is its averageness. There is nothing too much going on here that you can’t get somewhere else, probably cheaper, though not necessarily organic. I want to make a parallel here to prostitutes versus girlfriends, but that is probably offensive.

I had that great Seeds of Change spinach lasagna a week ago. That had class and creativity. It would be great if Amy could just do a version of their veggie lasagna with REAL cheese. Now that I would gladly wait the nine minutes for, co-workers be damned (except Abi, obviously, since she buys me things).

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7 Responses to “Amy’s Kitchen Cheese Lasagna”

Anna on February 16th, 2007

Will you review Amy’s vegetarian Shepard’s Pie? The “Hungry Girl” site says its good, and it looks pretty healthy. I only buy products reviewed here.

Okay, I’m just kidding about that, but I have bought a lot of things based on your star system. The Amy’s stuff is always good.
Colleen on February 17th, 2007

Hey Anna, here is the I.Ate.A.Pie.net review of the amy’s Veggie Shepherd Pie if you’re interested.

[url]http://www.iateapie.net/reviews/archives/2005/08/amys_kitchen_sh.php[/url]

Man, those Kids in the Hall movies are WEIRD.
Colleen on February 17th, 2007

Oh, I guess this doesn’t have a VB code or whatever. Don’t copy/paste the [url][/url] parts.
veggiegirl on February 17th, 2007

unfortunately, Amy’s veggie lasagna is not vegan because it the ingredients label lists, “CASEINATEâ€”A MILK DERIVED PROTEIN.” and Amy’s doesn’t list this product as vegan, either.
Angie L on March 30th, 2007

I love kids in the hall too!! hahaha
Kristin on April 4th, 2007

I think Amy’s tends to be a little hit and miss, but I’ve got to say that I love the (non tofu) version of the veggie lasagna. I could seriously buy the family size version of it and eat the whole thing. I’ve never done it, but I’ve thought about it.
Lauren on May 16th, 2007

Amy’s Cheese Lasagna was the first Amy’s product I had ever tried. I was extremely skeptical of it at first because to me, lasagna is usually only good with MEAT in it. But I gave it a chance and was extremely pleasantly surprised. I found the meal to be very flavorful, and the different types of cheese really worked together well. Plus, I eat this for dinner and it pretty much fills me up. And, sorry if this is gross, but I find the sauce so good that I lick the little plastic bowl clean. Ew, sorry, but hey, that shows how much I like it