These Ingredients Will Make Your Meatloaf So Much Better

With meatloaf, you can get as creative as you want. Just make sure you strike a balance with your ingredients. Beyond that, flavor and ingredient-wise, the sky is the limit. Check out these unexpected ingredients that can boost up your meatloaf.

While many recipes will call for ingredients like eggs and breadcrumbs to assist with keeping the loaf together, there are a few other tips and tricks you can employ to get a moist and tasty dish.

This time-tested combination of ground beef, chopped onion and garlic, bread crumbs, and — of course — ketchup also features a couple of other ingredients that really make the meatloaf sing.

Dry meatloaf crumbles when you try to cut it — and if you get to eat it, you'll find the texture tough and like eating a freezer-burned, flavorless burger. But fear not — there are some simple ingredients you can use to improve the texture of your meatloaf and pack in moisture.