Slow Cooker Meatloaf
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Slow cooker meatloaf brings Southern comfort to your table. Ground meat mixed with everyday kitchen ingredients slow-cooks to tender perfection, creating a moist, hearty dish that’s easy to prepare and impossible to resist.
Picture this: slow cooker meatloaf, the epitome of Southern comfort cooking. It’s like a warm hug from Grandma’s kitchen, where simple ingredients come together to create magic. No fuss, no frills—just good ol’ down-home flavor, perfect for lazy Sundays or busy weeknights. So kick back, let the slow cooker do its thing, and get ready for a taste of Southern hospitality that’ll have you coming back for seconds.
This recipe really is incredibly simple (just how I like it)! All you need is 5 simple ingredients to bring this supper to life, and these are 5 ingredients you probably already have in your home. Add in the fact that this slow cooker meatloaf is made in, well, the slow cooker, and you’ve got a meal that requires practically zero effort!
What You’ll Need to Make Slow Cooker Meatloaf:
Ingredients:
- ground beef
- tomato soup
- cream of mushroom soup
- dry onion soup mix
- an egg
How to Make Slow Cooker Meatloaf:
Place meat, eggs, and onion soup mix in a large bowl.
*If you want to be sneaky, you can mix in a quarter cup of ground flax seed with the meat to sneak in Omega 3 and fiber!
Mix those ingredients together until they are combined. Try using your hands to mix – they work perfectly here!
After those ingredients are well-combined, shape the meat mixture into a loaf. Place your loaf in the bottom of your slow cooker.
Pour a can of cream of mushroom soup over the loaf. I spread mine around a bit with the can so that it is coating the top of the meatloaf.
Pour a can of tomato soup on top of everything!
Cover and cook the meatloaf on the low setting for 8 hours, or on the high setting for 4 hours.
And there you have it! An easy, no-nonsense, made-with-ingredients-you-have-in-your-pantry Slow Cooker Meatloaf! Bon appetit!
Serve with a side of green beans (could even just be canned green beans) and/or mashed potatoes and you are good to go! How’s that for a quick and easy weeknight meal?!
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground beef or turkey
- 1 large egg
- 1 packet onion soup mix
- 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 1 can condensed tomato soup
- *1/4 cup ground flax seed optional
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix beef, egg and onion soup mix. Roll into “loaf form” and place in slow-cooker. Cover with condensed cream of mushroom soup. Pour one can condensed tomato soup over the top. Set slow-cooker on low and cook for eight hours or high for four.
Oh, we’d love to entertain Flat Christy up here in the north! We live in West Michigan .. if she visited during the 2nd week of May, we could show her the Tulip Time Festival, the Dutch Dancers .. we could take her to Dutch Village or the Tulip farm …. The teens will have band concerts and plays … the toddler would LOVE to take Flat Christy on some play dates … oh please say you’ll come! What fun!! (And, by that time the snow should be long gone, thank you very much! LOL)
Love the idea, Christy … and the meatloaf sounds wonderful!
Blessings,
Sandra (and the whole cast n crew: Jim, Courtney, Alexander, Cameron and the fur babies)
Hi Christy….
I bet Flat Christy would love a visit to the Wild West! High Desert… State of Nevada!
There is more than meets the eye here! and out here in the middle of nowhere, we never get any celebraties.
(what fun…you should keep up flat christy adventures for a long, long time)
Have a good day!
Debbie
You are so creative! I loved it when my son did a Flat Lukas in kindergarten. We would love to have flat Christy in Washington Court House, Ohio. We could build a snowman! Love the recipe too!
Christy, you could send her here. She could play with the feral kitties. I don’t THINK they would damage her too much. However.. it would be a VERY interesting visit. I promise. heh…
My husband doesn’t like meatloaf. I wonder if I change the name of this recipe if he might eat it!
Teresa, Just make the meatloaf into smaller patties and call it hamburger steak. He’ll never know…
Hahaha, “hamburger steak” I love it!
Flat Christy can come to Central Pennsylvania. 🙂
We are a childless couple … well, we have a ‘child’ but he’s 21 and out on his own. 🙂
* Visit the world headquarters of AccuWeather.com [our employer]
* Visit Penn State University, including a visit with Joe Paterno (JoePA) and the Nittany Lion
Depending on when she comes, she would also:
* Travel to Lancaster to the big Quilt show (March 24-27)
* Join us at a Boy Scout Spring Camporee (April 30- May 2)
* Travel with us to The National Boy Scout Jamboree (we leave in Late July) to help out at the Electronics and Electricity Merit Badge booths at the Merit Badge midway [She would have to be mailed FROM the Jamboree if she’s only staying w/ us for a week, because Jambo run 10 days, and we have to be there early to set up our booth … we’re there for 2 weeks]
* Travel with us to Campaganza in Moraine State Park (Sept. 24-26) to help staff the event — and see a concert by Smashmouth. We expect 10,000 to 15,000 scouts at this event. Kind of a mini Jamboree. Camping for a weekend and a concert for just $35 a person … can’t beat that w/ a stick!
If she travels to us from May to September, there is a good chance that she will also join us on hikes/overnights trying to earn the 100 Miles of Hertiage patch(es) offered by Huntingdon County, PA. [Scout Out Huntingdon County — scouts.raystown.org ] We don’t have our weekends picked out for those yet — we’re going to judge on the weather to see if it’s going to be a ‘good weekend’ to go hiking/canoeing/camping.
If you can’t tell, we’re heavily involved in the Boy Scouts. 🙂 Most of the things that we do are Boy Scout related. I’m the District Commissioner, and serve on my local Pack and Troop Committees. My hubby is a Unit Commissioner, and also serves on the Pack and Troop Committees.
Let me tell you … “Scouting Rounds a Person Out” 😉 [those boys know how to eat! and we adults don’t necessarily need all of their calories. 😉 ]
Blessings!
Ida
Ida,
If Flat Christy can’t make it . . . I think I can!!! (FYI . . . my son is a first year Cub Scout!)
What a fun way to travel around! My daughter’s orthodontist did that with her “kids” last year and we took Flat Stokes with us on our trip to Houston and Galveston. I can’t wait to see where else you get to go!
The meatloaf looks yummy, too. I’ve always wanted to try meatloaf in the slow cooker, so this is the recipe I’ll use. I heard about a trick for getting it out of the cooker, too. Make some “handles” out of aluminum foil and put them into the bottom of the slow cooker before adding the meatloaf. Then you can use your handles to lift it up and out.