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joedenise

@Jellybaby - do you use a ready made white sauce when you make lasagne or do you make your own using butter, flour, milk etc?  I can never get it to not be lumpy which is why I generally use a cheese sauce mix and why I've decided to try the cottage cheese one as I actually remembered to buy some this week!

maman

Well done on your loss @Jellybaby. That's excellent! 👏👏👏

It's so difficult to stick to plan when you're out of sorts @Suffolksue. Half a pound will be easily lost when you can focus again. Hope you recover soon. 😊

I found a fat free recipe for cheese sauce. I'll post it when I can get to desktop . Basically it's adding a cornflour paste to warmed milk and then stirring in the cheese. It isn't lumpy but you need to watch carefully in the microwave or stir continuously on the hob. 

Jellybaby

Denise,  I usually buy a mix and syn it. It usually works out about 2 /2.5 syns depending how many portions I get from it. My own attempts have never been successful. It’s either lumpy or tastes floury and that puts me off it too.  

I have used quark and added Parmesan and seasoning and just put it on top to finish.  It tasted ok but looked revolting 😂 definitely one to eat on your own.

bubbs

Afternoon all

Well done Jellybaby and SuffolkSue 👏👏

Well that bloody llb found me again!! it's a joke honestly 🙄

Denise have you tried the cauliflower white sauce? that's not lumpy 

maman

Oh dear @bubbs. Nothing to suggest but enjoy picky tea. 😁😋

joedenise

I've tried the cauliflower white sauce but didn't like it!   DH said "don't make it like that again!"  I think the cottage cheese sauce is going to be a bit lumpy because of the cottage cheese I bought.  Might have been better buying the one from Morrisons as that is a smoother cottage cheese but I don't like the texture of that one when I have it on jacket potato!  I much prefer the lumpy Tesco one so that's what I bought!

bubbs

maman said:

Oh dear @bubbs. Nothing to suggest but enjoy picky tea. 😁😋

joedenise said:

I've tried the cauliflower white sauce but didn't like it!   DH said "don't make it like that again!"  I think the cottage cheese sauce is going to be a bit lumpy because of the cottage cheese I bought.  Might have been better buying the one from Morrisons as that is a smoother cottage cheese but I don't like the texture of that one when I have it on jacket potato!  I much prefer the lumpy Tesco one so that's what I bought!

I did Maman

Oh i like it Dense good job we are all different 😂 i wouldn't give cottage cheese 🤮🤮room in my fridge! 🤣

maman

I wouldn't think there's much room in your fridge for cottage cheese or anything else! 🤣

I eat two pots most weeks and I love it with chilli. Only today I had some for lunch. Like you say, we're all different. 😁

joedenise

Well we'll be sticking to cottage cheese on our jacket potatoes in future, LOL!  Definitely not successful as cheese sauce!  I looked a bit scrambled, a bit like when you try to make a sauce with quark - that doesn't seem to work either!  Have to say it tasted OK but it just didn't look nice so makes it a bit off-putting.  Looks like I'll be sticking with the cheese sauce mix in future!

maman

Thanks for the report back @joedenise. I'm glad it tasted OK though so not a total disaster. Which sauce mix do you usually use and how many syns? 🤔

I took cheese sauce off the menu when I started SW and have only started making it again recently when HEA2 was introduced.