Green Smoothies and crockpot lasagna

A friend/coworker of mine - Allison - gave me this fantastic recipe for crock pot lasagna and I thought some of you out there would like to try it! It is delicious and SUPER easy!

• 9 lasagna noodles (uncooked!)
• 1 lb. ground turkey (I used beef)
• 2-3 minced garlic cloves
• 28 oz. can diced tomatoes (I used 2 15oz. cans)
• 24 oz. can tomato sauce (I used 2 15oz. cans)
• 1/2 t. basil
• 1/4 t. oregano
• 1/2 t. salt
• 1/2 t. pepper
• 1 c. cottage cheese
• 1 c. ricotta cheese
• mozzarella

Brown the turkey (or beef) with the garlic and mix this in with the cans of tomatoes and sauce. Stir in the salt, pepper, oregano and basil. In another bowl mix the cottage cheese and ricotta. In the crock pot put 2 cups of the tomato/meat mixture. Next break up 3 of the lasagna noodles into 1-2 inch pieces and lay them on top of the sauce. Next place 1/3 of the cottage/ricotta cheese mixture in dollops over the noodles. Layer 2 more times with the tomato/noodles/cheese. Top the last layer with the remaining 2 cups of the tomato mixture. Top with mozzarella cheese!

Cook on high for 3 1/2-4 hours or on low for 6!
This is another fun foody thing I am loving right now. Chris and I make smoothies almost every day which is great and mostly healthy on its own, but I am taking the healthy meter a step up!

I do the basic mix with ice, frozen strawberries, bananas, a couple black berries, milk/water, and vanilla yogurt- and....

a big handful of spinach!

It is so good and good for you! and you can hardly even taste the spinach!

YUM!