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15 years ago

What do you like to eat with your meatloaf? I like potatoes and carrots seasoned with some onion cooked with mine. I like the ketchup and brown sugar topping and maybe even some strips of bacon too on top. Love green beans with that meal also. What do you like to have with your meatloaf?

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User
15 years ago
I like mashed potatoes and green beans with gravy.
tobygirl
15 years ago
Mashed potatoes and gravy.
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mary_c_gw
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With a tomato glaze (ketchup and Worchestershire sauce and never, ever any sugar) I like potatoes and carrots roasted together, and any green veggie.

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ntt_hou
15 years ago
mashed potatoes and peas and carrots and corn and mustard greens. Meat is a side dish for us.
wanda_va
15 years ago
When I make meat loaf, I always make scalloped potatoes. They just seem to go together well. I usually have green beans or other veggies also.
cynic
15 years ago
I suppose this'll spark another temper tantrum, but none of that sugary ketchup glop on mine. If so, it gets scraped off and tossed somewhere. Mashed potatoes (boiled will do), gravy and corn. Either toast or a nice soft hot dinner roll to sop up the gravy, and a tossed salad or coleslaw is optional.
glenda_al
15 years ago
Can't eat meat loaf anymore. It leaves me with an after taste all day long.

Love meat loaf, but it just doesn't love me.
phyllis__mn
15 years ago
Made meat loaf over the weekend, and a macaroni salad that had everything but the kitchen sink in it. People were fishing and I planned for them to make themselvses sandwiches of the meatloaf. Turned out well that way.
Georgysmom
15 years ago
Love meatloaf....mine has a sauce of tomato sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, mustard and worcestershire sauce. I love it with mashed potatoes and sweet and sour red cabbage.....and best of all, meatloaf sandwiches the next day!
Toni S
15 years ago
yummy Georgysmom! Invite me over!
Jasdip
15 years ago
I'm like Wanda_VA. I tend to make scalloped potatoes when I make meatloaf. They just go together.

I read recently to make meatloaf in an Angel food pan. It cooks way faster, and it's easy to cut.
Jeane Gallo
15 years ago
I always make macaroni and cheese pie (the kind with eggs and milk). My meatloaf has lots of ketchup mixed with brown sugar and a little dry mustard on the top.
Tomato_Tuff-Tuff
15 years ago
Meatloaf?
Who can EAT THAT STUFF???
Just kidding, well... just kidding a little bit. I was ruined by growing up on poor people meatloaf. I mean poooooooor people meatloaf. If the ground beef mama used had a lean to fat ratio it was probably 50%/50%! I swear what she put into the oven raw was the size of a watermelon and what came out was a plump breakfast sausage. I guess it was basically fat soaked bread crumbs with ketchup on top. Yeah cynic, cheap Winn Dixie ketchup.

But hey, somewhere, somehow the rich folks ate meatloaf with meat in it I guess.
bengardening
15 years ago
I like mashed potatoes and gravy and green beans with it. Sometimes I put cream of mushroom soup on the meatloaf and other times just ketchup
wine50
15 years ago
I think meatloaf is pretty bland without the lucious topping of brown sugar, ketchup, and mustard with a slice of green pepper on top. Don't like any kind of gravy on anything. I do like scalloped potatoes and cole slaw. Yumm.
jannie
15 years ago
I love meatlof. I use my MILS recipe. Ground beef (not low fat or angus or anything fancy), seasoned bread crumbs,and egg or 2. Top with ketchup and bacon. Serve with mashed potatoes, gravy, any veg I have on hand-canned corn comes to mind. DH loves it 'cause it tastes just like Mom's. Thanks for asking!
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Meatloaf (NO sauce/gravy/topping), mac and cheese and green beans.

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