I've always hated meatloaf until I started making it like this, and now my kids eat it too.
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Preheat your oven to 375 and throw two pounds of ground beef into a bowl. Then dice half an onion and a green bell pepper and pour that in. Add half a cup of milk, half a cup of ketchup, some Italian seasoning, some garlic powder, some onion powder, and two packs of Lipton onion soup mix.
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Then I’m going to crack in two eggs and crush an entire sleeve of Ritz crackers right in the pack, and then you can open it up and pour those in.
Then I took a Ziploc bag to use kind of as a glove to give this a good, nice initial mix. But then once it started coming together, I continued the mix with a spatula.
Then I set that aside, and we’re going to go ahead and make our glaze. This is a cup and a half of ketchup, a tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce, and a half cup of packed brown sugar.
Then grab a good baking dish. This is a two and a half quart dish. Give it a little bit of grease and then pour in your meatloaf.
You want to make sure that you’re really packing this down and getting it nice and compact, and then I like to push around the edges too to give it that nice loaf look.
Then take your glaze and pour it right on top, making sure that it’s spread out evenly throughout the whole loaf.
After that, we’re just going to pop it in the oven for an hour and 15 minutes and let the oven do the work. I do like to make sure it hits 165 degrees, and there you have it. Supper served, and it’s actually meatloaf that your family won’t hate.
