help i didnt have enough bread crumbs for my meatloaf?

Question

how can i get it to stay in form? its too soggy with sauce that it wont stay in traditional meatloaf form?

Answer 1

use crackers or oats maybe. this works also.

Answer 2

Breadcrumbs are just filler. You can make a great meatloaf without breadcrumbs! Mix the meat with spices and a little liquid such as ketchup or bbq sauce. The trick is not to handle the meat too much or it gets gooey. Put the meatloaf in a breadpan and cook. It will keep its form and taste much better because you don't have all those breadcrumbs.

Answer 3

I usually do not even use bread crumbs...especially dried. I just cube up some slices of white bread and add that or about 3/4 cup of quick cook oats for 1 1/2 to 2 lbs. of meat.

Answer 4

I do the breadcrumb thing also, but I also put a hard boiled egg in the center. I go easy on the additions to the meat before cooking, and baste it like a turkey with a mixture of butter, soy sauce, and ketchup about 10 minutes before it's done. Don't ask me why the egg. This has been done in my family since before I was born. (And I was born quite a few years ago!)

Answer 5

How about trying oatmeal. I've seen meatloaf recipes that use oatmeal instead of bread crumbs. I'd use "quick oats" that would absorb the liquid more quickly.

Answer 6

Another idea I've used when I discovered I didn't have bread crumbs is cornflakes. Crush them in a ziploc bag then add. They work great as well as crushed crackers butter or saltine or oatmeal.

Debbie
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Answer 7

Use a handful of quick oats or dry small pieces of bread in the oven, or salt crackers(crumbled)

Answer 8

mmm to bad halloween is over you could put rice to make it look like worms...lol look take some bread toast it in the toaster and then using a grater grate it up you got bread crumbs....
good luck.

Answer 9

got any crackers? or bread? toast a few slices of bread and wait til it gets hard b4 u crush it in the meat

Answer 10

Tear up some slices of bread or use crumbled crackers.

Answer 11

Why not relabel it "sloppy joes" and serve it with a scoop to your family. They can put it onto hamburger rolls and get all the taste and none of the mess.