Best Meatloaf Ever

14 ingredients
8 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 lb. ground beef
  • 1 pkg. saltine crackers, finely crushed
  • bread crumbs
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 can tomato sauce
  • 1 cup ketchup
  • 4 to 6 slices bacon, fried crisp and crumbled with grease reserved
  • 1 sm. onion, diced
  • 1 sm. green pepper, diced
  • 1 tbsp. garlic powder
  • 1 tbsp. seasoned salt
  • 1/8 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tsp. Accent

Directions

  1. 1
    Saute green pepper and onion in the bacon grease till not quite tender, maybe 5 minutes.
  2. 2
    Add tomato sauce, 1/2 cup ketchup, Worcestershire and spices (minus brown sugar); heat 3-4 minutes.
  3. 3
    Place ground beef into large mixing bowl; add the eggs, brown sugar, pepper and onion sauce.
  4. 4
    Mix in the crumbled bacon and crushed crackers and mix all this together.
  5. 5
    Mixture should be very moist.
  6. 6
    Put into a baking dish and form into a loaf.
  7. 7
    Pour the other 1/2 cup of ketchup on top and spread it around.
  8. 8
    Bake at 350F for 1 hour.

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