Not Your Mother's Meatloaf

Ingredients

• 2 lbs ground beef (80/20)
• 2 cups oats
• 2 eggs
• 8 oz colby jack cheese, small cubes
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 medium green bell pepper, chopped
• 8 oz tomato sauce
• salt
• pepper
• paprika
• garlic powder
• onion powder
• Casey's special meatloaf sauce  :)
• 6-8 strips of bacon

Making the Meatloaf

• In a large bowl, combine ground beef, oats, eggs, cheese, onion, bell pepper, tomato sauce
• sprinkle generously with seasoning and spices
• In a 9x13 glass baking dish, greased, form mixture into a loaf down center of dish
• form a trough down middle of loaf
• pour special sauce in trough
• place bacon strips over top of loaf

Making Casey's special meatloaf sauce

• 1/2 cup of brown sugar
• 1/4 cup of Ketchup
• 1 tbsp Mustard
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• other condiments can also be used, such as Heinz 57, honey, BBQ sauce, whatever you like

• Bake uncovered at 350* for 1 hour
• drain off excess grease

And I like to serve this with green beans and macaroni&cheese.