{"id":5646,"date":"2025-12-09T01:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:53:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:53:45","slug":"trader-joes-traditional-meatloaf-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2025\/12\/trader-joes-traditional-meatloaf-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Trader Joe’s Traditional Meatloaf review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Meatloaf is a strange meal. It’s basically a giant meatball, basted with a tomato\/ketchup or barbeque sauce, and baked. As far as I know it’s an American invention, and it evoques the cuisine of the poor. Now that beef has become so extraordinarily expensive, it might make a comeback, who knows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meatloaf is not part of my culinary repertoire, though I’ve made it a few times here<\/a> and there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason, however, once in a while I get a hankering for meatloaf. I don’t quite know why, as this is not something I grew up with, but I do love sweet-savory flavors, and meatloaf, with its sweetened sauce, can often go there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trader Joe’s traditional meatloaf <\/strong>is sold in the refrigerated section, but it lasts quite a while in the fridge (unopened). The packages have 1lb of meat loaf, so they probably serve 2 people for a meal, more if they are children (though my children tell me meatloaf is the grossest food ever, according to kids in cartoons). I ate it over 3 meals on my own.

I was quite pleased with this version. It wasn’t particularly sweet, but it had a nice, meaty flavor, and the tomato sauce complimented it. The texture was on point, and it was easy enough to slice and microwave. I’d buy it again for when I get a meatloaf hankering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surprisingly good Meatloaf is a strange meal. It’s basically a giant meatball, basted with a tomato\/ketchup or barbeque sauce, and baked. As far as I know it’s an American invention, and it evoques the cuisine of the poor. Now that beef has become so extraordinarily expensive, it might make a comeback, who knows? Meatloaf is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[169,429,28,259],"class_list":["post-5646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-items","tag-meatloaf","tag-ready-to-eat-meals","tag-reviews","tag-trader-joes","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}