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The BEST Italian Meatloaf

The BEST Italian Meatloaf

About 8 years ago, Craig’s parents gave us the BEST Christmas present! It was a 1/2 grass-fed cow from a farmer! Grass-fed beef is probably the best gift they could have gotten us! I suggest a box of quality beef from Butcherbox as a gift to your family or friend! Each month they will remember you and enjoy healthy meals!

We love using Butcherbox ground beef for lots of recipes including this Ranch Meatloaf. Check out this video with Micah as my assistant on what you get in a box each month! You can customize your box too! We now are getting ribs and ground beef which we eat all the time!

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How to make The BEST Italian Meatloaf

Instead of using breadcrumbs or cracker crumbs to make my keto Italian Meatloaf, I use an egg for the binder along with finely chopped mushrooms (don’t worry you don’t even taste them, but it makes it very moist) and grated Parmesan cheese.

Mushrooms and aged cheeses have something called “UMAMI.” Umami is a pleasant savory taste produced by glutamate and ribonucleotides, chemicals that occur naturally in many foods. Umami is subtle and not generally identified by people when they encounter it, but blends well with other tastes to intensify and enhance flavors; it plays an important role in making food taste delicious.

The BEST Italian Meatloaf

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Course Beef and Lamb, Dairy Free, Main Course, Nut Free
Cuisine American
Servings 6
Calories 609

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/5 pounds ground beef 85% lean
  • 1/2 pound Italian Sausage
  • 2 large eggs beaten
  • 3/4 cups mushrooms finely chopped
  • 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
  • 1/4 cup marinara sauce
  • 2 teaspoons Redmond Fine grain sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano ground
  • 1 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1 clove garlic crushed
  • 1 1/2 cups fontina cheese shredded (or shredded mozzarella)

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  • In a large bowl, mix together ground beef, Italian sausage, eggs, mushrooms, Parmesan and marinara.
  • Season with Italian seasoning, salt, oregano, basil, garlic, and cheese.
  • Press into a 9×5 inch loaf pan.
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes, then remove from the oven and lower temperature to 350 degrees F and cover the meatloaf with foil. Place back into the oven for 40 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 160 degrees F (70 degrees C). Slice and serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 609 | Fat: 46.8g | Protein: 49.8g | Carbohydrates: 1.2g | Fiber: 0.2g | P:E Ratio: 1

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Here is a video showing you how to make this meatloaf!

I served my meatloaf sandwich on my protein sparing bread (recipes HERE)!

Testimony of the Day

“I started yo-yo dieting and exercising when I was 8 years old even though I was a slim child with no genetic tendency towards being even slightly overweight!

I had started baby ballet a few months prior and was so gifted a dancer that in just a month I was moved to the advanced ballet class with the older girls and was (apparently) even better than all of them.

My ballet teacher who was once a prima ballerina was so impressed by my ability that she pulled my mom aside and I had the ill-luck to have overheard this conversation. She told my mom that if I continued to dance that I would someday be a prima ballerina assoluta. (I had to look up this definition when I got much older  but at 8 years old I had no idea what kind of compliment I was being given). But THIS I remember…she said that for me to be a ballerina I would have to go on a strict diet because I was not a ‘skinny’ girl. That actually my (slim) frame was not ideal for ballerinas and it would hold me back. The ballet world would think I was too ‘fat’ and my body was not ideal.

There. My life was changed at that moment. I started a lifelong struggle with body image at that moment that I heard I was too fat. And even though I stopped dancing only 2 years later, the dieting and exercise continued. I would do 45 minutes of aerobics and toning in my room with my door closed and I was only 8 years old.

I never had an eating disorder but I was definitely obsessed with my weight. My eating was either feast or famine because I could never stick to a real diet. I had no concept for what was healthy and what was right. I went about ‘dieting very blindly. And because I could never stick to an actual ‘diet’ i actually started gaining weight. All the feasting was catching up to me which made me try more starvation diets only to feast later on. Because I never lost weight and I would hide my binge eating, my mom never knew how obsessed I was with my weight and my body. No one knew. It was my own secret.

To make a long story short, everyone in my family was thin except for me…which made me even more obsessed.

I have been on every diet I can think of and have been to countless nutritionists with little success. I was really at the end of the line and I always felt trapped in my body. I’m an emotional eater and have a major sweet tooth. Once I start I can’t stop. I once went on a sugar binge that lasted almost a year. I felt like crap every single day!

Then one day, I had the good fortune to meet Maria who really understood me and my background! She showed me a lot of compassion and I knew she really cared about helping me.

She mapped out a great eating plan, but more importantly recommended supplements to curb my moods and emotions–which was at the crux of my emotional eating.

Since then, I have bought every one of her cookbooks. I feel very educated about health and eating and can consciously make the right choices.

By the way, I have made almost every one of her desserts and ate it guilt-free!! But I slowly stopped craving sweets altogether. When you don’t deprive your body of something, it stops craving it.

Now, I am healthy at 5’6″ and 117lbs and am no longer dieting or going crazy about my weight and body which had consumed the better part of my life. I can live and enjoy life the way I was meant to…something I haven’t felt since baby ballet.

Thank you, Maria. You are a superstar and life changer….and forever my go-to gal. I love you!!!!” Romy J.

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Maria Emmerich

Maria is a wellness expert who has helped clients follow a Ketogenic lifestyle to heal and lose weight for over 20 years. She has helped thousands of clients get healthy, get off medications and heal their bodies; losing weight is just a bonus. She is the international best selling author of several books including "Keto: The Complete Guide to Success on the Ketogenic Diet.".

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