Mom's Perfect Meatloaf
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Recipe type: Main Dish
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 8
 
Weight Watchers Info: 5 Points Plus per serving
Ingredients
  • 1 pound ground beef (I use 15% fat)
  • 2 large carrots, peeled and grated
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • ½ large onion, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons A-1 or Worcestershire sauce (I use Worcestershire)
  • ⅓ cup bread or cracker crumbs (I use bread crumbs)
  • 2 small cans tomato sauce
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
  • Milk, approximately ½ cup (I use 1%)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Mix everything together except ½ can tomato sauce and the milk. Add milk until mixture is wet, but holds it shape. Alternate adding slightly more bread crumbs and milk if you need it to be a bit more firm or moist.
  3. Spread into one 9×13 baking dish (or two 8×8, if you want to freeze one). Mold into a loaf form.
  4. Pour the ½ can of remaining tomato sauce over the top and spread around.
  5. Bake for 1 hour, or until loaf is firm and crumbly.
Notes
Start checking meatloaf at 1 hour for doneness. A full size loaf can take another 15 to 30 minutes, depending on your oven. If splitting into 2 small loaves, 1 small loaf takes 1 hour.

This is a great dish to make ahead on your day off, freeze, and then thaw and bake later for a quicker weeknight dinner.

Follow cooking instructions up through step 3. Form loaves in freezer-friendly disposable aluminum baking dishes (either one big 9x13 if you have a big family or dinner group, or 2 small 8x8 for two smaller dinners), cover tightly with foil or the plastic covers that sometimes come with disposable baking pans.

On the day when you're ready to cook, thaw the dish in your fridge during the day. Uncover, then proceed to step 4 , and cook as normal.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: ⅛th of loaf Calories: 218.3 Fat: 10.1g Carbohydrates: 11.8g Sugar: 5.5g Sodium: 512.0mg Fiber: 2.0g Protein: 18.3g Cholesterol: 76.7mg
Recipe by The Taste Place at https://www.thetasteplace.com/my-mom-makes-the-best-meatloaf/