I have to have mashed potatoes and fresh green beans. But I don't make gravy with my meatloaf for the potatoes, instead I add some cream cheese to the mashed potatoes along with the butter and milk, I also add some heavy cream and some garlic powder.

Traditionally I do carrots sliced and baked with butter in a covered dish and baked potato - to make it a complete oven meal.

Mac and cheese and green beans.

Pasta (like spaghetti or linguini) with a marinara sauce, unless I make a mushroom sauce, and then I might serve it with broccoli, asparagus, or green beans.

I love meat loaf with mashed potatoes and a crisp salad. Sooo good!

Mashed potatoes, then peas, fresh green beans in season, or a nice green salad.

(my meatloaf isn't reliably perfect, I can find it a little dry - too often. So I don't make it but very occasionally even though I like meatloaf ;0) )

I make meat loaf if I want to spoil DH and it gets served with his favourites of mashed potatoes and peas.

I dislike all three of them.

This afternoon I had mine for a combination of my lunch and my supper. With it I had the potatoes and carrots and I also had applesauce. I was going to make coleslaw but no cabbage! My extra will be frozen for future quick meals for me.

Sue

Mashed potatoes, corn and a salad. DH loves meatloaf sandwiches!

My preference is meatloaf on rye bread with lettuce and mayo.

Baked potatoes as the oven is already hot and green beans or Brussel sprouts

Always mashed potatoes and a veggie.

Mashed potatoes and most any vegetable. I like gravy, but not a very good gravy maker.

I'm with the majority ... Mashed Potatoes with gravy normally. I'm making meatloaf tomorrow and I think I will just toss a couple of potatoes in to bake alongside. Easy, no extra dirty dishes. And since it's going to still be quite cold the extra oven time will be welcome.

Baked potatoes and baked apples. (and I don't use beef, turkey instead)

Usually with "bare plate" dishes like meatloaf, I like a leafy salad, but I'm not so fond of salad with meatloaf. It kind of upstages it. For me, meatloaf calls for a couple of hot vegetables. One could be cooked spinach or other greens, but I"m fine with green beans and carrots, or broccoli and summer squash, or whatever.

Always mashed potatoes and gravy. Then hot meatloaf sandwiches are made with the leftovers another night. Veggies whatever.

Gotta have baked or mashed potatoes with mine. Maybe corn or green beans alongside.

Yes to function's meatloaf sandwiches with leftovers. I always make more meatloaf than needed to have sandwiches.

just made meatloaf last week for DD's boyfriend birthday dinner.. he loves my meatloaf....

served with roasted yukon gold oven baked potato chunks, drizzeld with ghee, S&P, garlic powder and smoked paprika, brussel sprouts with same seasoning - all on one sheet pan. also served field green salad.

everything in the oven together, though not at same time... so that's a time saver and easy to clean up

I do mashed potatoes (no gravy) and buttery corn. Sometimes my cream cheese corn dish. I know that’s two creamy things together, but it’s kind of our tradition. :)

Baked potato and roasted vegis. Gravy and meatloaf/pasta with sauce these ideas are blowing my mind. Never imagined....

Mashed potatoes and gravy

Mashed potatoes and green beans.

Mashed potatoes plus any other vegetable plus rolls.

Baked potatoes and brussel sprouts.

I usually make baked potatoes and then some kind of veggie..usually corn or green beans!

We have to have mashed potatoes and brown gravy, green beans and a tossed salad. We just had this yummy meal the other day...very satisfying!

Tater tots or corn, or mashed potatoes. (To me, corn is the starch, not a the vegetable) Carrots and celery, tossed salad.

Meatloaf with a tomato/brown gravy (my own concoction) Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans with bacon. A small salad, either green or a grilled pineapple salad.

Apple pie!

Mashed potatoes, gravy and usually a dish consisting of 2 or more vegetables.

Other than potatoes, I don't have any set 'go-withs'. And the potatoes do NOT need to be mashed - oven roasted, scalloped, twice baked, hash brown casserole, mashed........it's all good :-)

I'd opt for a green vegetable to go with most of the time although I quite like carrots with meatloaf for some reason. And those could be roasted as well although steamed and glazed works just fine in my book! When I was growing up, it seems like meatloaf was a fall/winter meal usually and we had baked squash with it.

I always make extra gravy when I make a brisket and then freeze it to use with meatloaf. My side dishes are mashed potatoes and peas and a salad.

Baked potatoes and a green vegetable like broccoli or cooked spinach. Ham meat loaf is usually paired with scalloped potatoes and pepper cabbage.

Usually it’s a turkey meat loaf. I make both mashed and roasted potatoes and asparagus One of my daughters prefers roasted (So do I) My husband, older daughter and son love mashed. My husband cooks, but for some reason is under the impression that mashed potatoes are very hard work. I just go with it. He’s so thankful and I’m amused by it. Win, win I guess.

Macaroni & Cheese! I'm from rice country, the only time potatoes were served was with pork dishes.

I usually served a baked potato for us since oven was on anyway but sometimes mashed potatoes. No gravy just a pool of butter on them. Some kind of salad and a vegetable. My mother always served baked macaroni and cheese or scalloped potatoes.

This is fun!

For me, macaroni and cheese is a supper, with maybe a vegetable and a salad. When I lived in a Texas, we used to go to a restaurant called Black-Eyed Pea. Loved it, lots of home-style cooking comfort food, perfect for us young singles transplants far from home. You could choose a main dish, and any two vegetables, and there was always a vegetable of the day. On occasion the “vegetable of the day” was Mac-n-cheese. Never did figure out where the vegetable was in it, but it sure was good. (I know, they meant “side dish.) Oh, and the rolls. Which are of course just an excuse to eat butter. But Mmmmm their rolls.

I have never cooked veggies directly with meatloaf. I do cook green beans and boiled potatoes to go along my meatloaf and gravy.

YUMMY... now you made me hungry. LOL

Moni

Bpath - I've been to a Black-Eyed Pea years ago, it was quite good. Macaroni & Cheese is always listed as a vegetable in the south.

As I read this thread yesterday of course I got hungry for meatloaf, fortunately I had some frozen portions from the last time I made it so I had meat loaf and mashed potatoes for dinner. Then there was just enough left for a meat loaf sandwich for lunch today. Perfect for this cold weather, thank you for starting the thread Marilyn_Sue!

Meatloaf didn't happen today so we'll have it tomorrow but I am going to bake sweet potatoes instead of regular.

I do not care for meatloaf. I make it once or twice a year if someone requests it. I serve it with mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, or some seasonal vegetable and salad, of course.

I remember that restaurant, bpath. There was a family owned place with a similar concept in Dallas, Celebration. They served family style meals. The food was pretty southern. They had a yellow squash dish that was on the sweet side. I loved it.

Mashed potatoes and any vegetable.

Mac and cheese being considered a "vegetable" strikes my funny bone!! There is nothing remotely vegetable-like in the dish. Similar to calling bread a vegetable.........and that's not even all that close, either. LOL!!

Mashed potatoes, green beans for DH and canned cream corn for me. Yeah I know, but it's a guilty pleasure.