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Meatloaf Muffins 2 Ways
I love meatloaf. It is one of my favorite comfort food meals. Everyone has a different version of meatloaf, some like lots of veggies and other stuff added, but I like mine somewhat simple. It doesn’t need a lot added to get a great flavor when you start with good quality ground beef. I use 80/20 ground beef for most of my recipes, if you go leaner, there is less flavor and it will be drier and if you buy the fattier ones, they just seem to cook away. Recently I turned my regular meatloaf into meatloaf muffins. I used about 2 lbs of ground beef and added a small…
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Meal Planning – My Way
I have said it before. I am not good about meal planning. Our life is crazy most of the time. I rarely know if we are going to be home for supper or at least how many are going to be home. I have tried to plan out meals, but it usually doesn’t work out. I like to have easy meals that I can throw together quickly, that is just what works for our family, but I still like to cook fairly wholesome meals out of real food when possible. I have a few tricks that help me with this. I buy ground meat in the larger amounts and prepare…
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What’s the Deal at Aldi?
We didn’t have an Aldi locally until a couple of years ago. There was one an hour away and I had heard that people made special trips up there to buy groceries. I even went and looked around once when I was in that town for work. I wasn’t impressed because I didn’t recognize anything, I remember thinking it is just a lot of ‘off-brand’ stuff and I didn’t get a basket because I didn’t know they were outside. So I wasn’t excited when I heard we were getting one. I didn’t go to the grand opening or even visit there the first month or so. I am really not…
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