Do you need to cook the lasagna noodles first?

The answer is no! All you need to do is add extra water! 

The noodles cooked perfectly! You do need to bake the lasagna longer but it's well worth... The less work. I used a jar of tomato sauce, then filled up the same jar with water. Shook it to get all the remaining sauce out. Foiled the glass lasagna pan with all the fixins and baked it at 375F for an hour. 

Tada, done!