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Odessa, MO —
We just finished a great meal. Paula Deen’s meatloaf, mashed sweet potatoes and green beans. Nothing fancy but it was good! I think I have shared the meatloaf recipe before but it is truly one of the best meatloaves I have ever eaten. I am going to share it again just in case.
Paula Deen’s Meatloaf
1 pound of lean ground beef
1, 8-ounce can tomato sauce or 1, 6-ounce can tomato paste
1⁄2 cup chopped Vidalia onion
1⁄2 cup chopped green bell pepper
1⁄2 cup quick cooking oats
1 egg, slightly beaten
Salt and pepper
Topping
1/3 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, tomato paste, green pepper, onion, oats, egg, salt and pepper. Shape the mixture into a loaf and place it in a loaf pan. In a small bowl whisk together the ketchup, brown sugar and mustard. Slather the glaze on top of the meat loaf and bake for 1 hour or until the meat loaf is firm and cooked all the way through. Serve hot.
The sweet potatoes were instant and they are great too. So it was an easy meal and I thought Grouchy Bear was going to pop he ate so much.
He keeps insisting that since I took his bread and butter away he is really hungry and eats more food. That could be so but we just don’t eat much bread. I keep my bread in the freezer and just take out what we need for a sandwich and make toast with the frozen bread.
Another thing we eat a lot of is instant pudding, and I never realized how good that is and how good for you when you are making desserts. I use the sugar free-fat free instant pudding. We also used 2 percent milk, and there are many great pudding flavors. I keep a bottle of ice cream toppings in several flavors and use them to complement the flavor of pudding I chose. A box of vanilla pudding makes two nice sized helpings, and I put caramel (low sugar) topping on top and some Cool Whip.
I get so discouraged when I grocery shop any more. Things are so expensive, so we really try hard to watch the prices and buy accordingly.
Canned fruit is good for the Bear and he loves it. I buy the smaller cans and just open, give him a spoon and he enjoys that a lot. On occasion I add half a can of the peaches, fruit cocktail, etc. to the pudding, and that is great too. We can live fairly comfortably if we really watch the ads and use coupons.
Another thing I try to do is to have leftovers for a second meal. I get tired of cooking three meals a day so I enjoy microwaving the leftovers for the next day.
Hope you have a great week. See you next week.
We just finished a great meal. Paula Deen’s meatloaf, mashed sweet potatoes and green beans. Nothing fancy but it was good! I think I have shared the meatloaf recipe before but it is truly one of the best meatloaves I have ever eaten. I am going to share it again just in case.
Paula Deen’s Meatloaf
1 pound of lean ground beef
1, 8-ounce can tomato sauce or 1, 6-ounce can tomato paste
1⁄2 cup chopped Vidalia onion
1⁄2 cup chopped green bell pepper
1⁄2 cup quick cooking oats
1 egg, slightly beaten
Salt and pepper
Topping
1/3 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, tomato paste, green pepper, onion, oats, egg, salt and pepper. Shape the mixture into a loaf and place it in a loaf pan. In a small bowl whisk together the ketchup, brown sugar and mustard. Slather the glaze on top of the meat loaf and bake for 1 hour or until the meat loaf is firm and cooked all the way through. Serve hot.
The sweet potatoes were instant and they are great too. So it was an easy meal and I thought Grouchy Bear was going to pop he ate so much.
He keeps insisting that since I took his bread and butter away he is really hungry and eats more food. That could be so but we just don’t eat much bread. I keep my bread in the freezer and just take out what we need for a sandwich and make toast with the frozen bread.
Another thing we eat a lot of is instant pudding, and I never realized how good that is and how good for you when you are making desserts. I use the sugar free-fat free instant pudding. We also used 2 percent milk, and there are many great pudding flavors. I keep a bottle of ice cream toppings in several flavors and use them to complement the flavor of pudding I chose. A box of vanilla pudding makes two nice sized helpings, and I put caramel (low sugar) topping on top and some Cool Whip.
I get so discouraged when I grocery shop any more. Things are so expensive, so we really try hard to watch the prices and buy accordingly.
Canned fruit is good for the Bear and he loves it. I buy the smaller cans and just open, give him a spoon and he enjoys that a lot. On occasion I add half a can of the peaches, fruit cocktail, etc. to the pudding, and that is great too. We can live fairly comfortably if we really watch the ads and use coupons.
Another thing I try to do is to have leftovers for a second meal. I get tired of cooking three meals a day so I enjoy microwaving the leftovers for the next day.
Hope you have a great week. See you next week.
