Google Meatloaf

When you google "meatloaf" you find that you can either make a delicious meat dish or read the lyrics for many songs of a big man with a big voice. Also, try "mum", I love these double reference searches.

Anyway, not that my meatloaf is super special or anything but I love it and my kids love it.

Sorry no photo, as soon as I took it out of the oven it was attacked like it was brains and my family were brain-hungry zombies!

Neva's Loaf o' Meat
1-2 pounds ground beef
1 large clove of garlic
1/4 onion- chopped fine
1 stalk celery- chopped fine
handful of Parsley- chop it up!
Worcestershire sauce (can never spell this one right!)
Salt and pepper
Paprika
1-2 eggs
1/4 rolled oats
Any other fresh herbs I might have like thyme- chop, chop!

I think that's it.

Mix it up in a bowl. I like making two smaller meatloaf if I use 2 pounds of meat. Pick up that meat mix and ball it up, slap it down, and shape it into a loaf or ball. Spray a baking dish with cooking spray, place the loaf in pan, cover with foil and back 350 for an hour. I put some ketchup on top halfway through the cooking time but I don't like to slather it with ketchup like some. And tonight I think I am going to try our new World Market purchase- Curry Ketchup. (Postscript: Oh Man, that Curry Ketchup was amaaazing! It takes meatloaf to a whole new level! Go get some, like now!)

Serving with baked sweet potatoes and canned green beans (the cupboard and fridge are quite bare!). If there are leftover the kids are getting meatloaf sandwiches in their lunches.

Looking into making Chicken Corn Chowder, which I haven't made in about 12 years and also a Sweet Chili Sauce with all these chili's someone gave me.

Bento Wednesday

Chicken Lollipos, Whole wheat cracker, grapes, carrot raisin salad, broccoli florets



Wonderful, washable, reusable snack bags made by my friend Ashley (she is opening up an Etsy store soon, in the meantime you can email me if you want to contact her). Secure velcro closer, lined with special fabric on inside, machine washable and it saves money and helps the environment by not buying and using plastic baggies. Plus the kids love the prints she picked for them- B gets black/colorful peace signs, Z gets kitties.


Inside view


Brown rice, meatloaf slice with ketchup, three coconut cookies which stored nicely in lid

And the Pièce de résistance: a green apple tree frog with carrot toes, craisin eyes and blue food color stripes on a bed of lettuce with cucumber and green apple flowers.

I know, I know. I'm a little crazy, but my day was stressful yesterday and as panicked as I felt when I realized it was 4:30, homework wasn't finished, the kids weren't showered, hubby and I were going on a date, I hadn't even begun to get ready and the kids grandmother would be home any minute AND I HADN'T PACKED THEIR LUNCHES!!! I made a quick lunch of cut carrots, a roll, some meat, some grapes and I was DONE. The creativity, what little I used, helped me transition from CRAZY to NOT SO CRAZY.

So don't judge me :p