Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 lb ground beef
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup diced onion
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 37 saltine crackers, crushed
• 1 lb bacon

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.
• 2 in a large bowl mix ground beef, eggs, diced onions, ketchup, garlic powder, and onion powder. mixing with your hands is best. mix it real well.
• 3 crush the crackers. i always crush the crackers while still in their sleeve.
• 4 pour crushed crackers into beef. mix the crackers into the beef mixture well.
• 5 form into a loaf shape and set to the side.
• 6 take the bacon and divide it into even amount.
• 7 take 1 half of the bacon and lay side by side long ways.
• 8 fold every other bacon strip in half.
• 9 lay 1 of the other half of the reserved bacon strips across.
• 10 unfold the half folded bacon strip.
• 11 fold the other every other bacon strips that were not folded in the previous step.
• 12 lay a slice of bacon across and then unfold.
• 13 repeat until you run out of room.
• 14 start on the other half of the bacon strip until you have made a weave.
• 15 pace the loaf shaped beef mixture into the center on your bacon weave.
• 16 wap the weave around the beef loaf shaped mixture.
• 17 flip the bacon wrapped meat loaf upside down,making the ends of the bacon tuck under the loaf.
• 18 place the loaf in the center of the oven on a cookie sheet.
• 19 it takes about an hour to cook.
• 20 to make sure it is cooked all the way through, i sometimes use a meat thermometer but that isn't really needed. sometimes i leave it in for 15 more minutes if i am worried it isn't cooked all the way.