Once a month cooking!

We start our cook off yesterday! It took us two days to complete it this time due to back issues, but that is okay! We got many meals again. I will have to post later, but I just wanted to give a quick tip!! We made meatballs for one of our meals this time, Joey wanted meatloaf but I completely forgot as I was cooking stuff up, and had started the meatballs and used the ground beef up already. I stuff them but this time I used wild rice. We also ran out of bread crumbs last time we made burgers. The only thing I had left in the cupboard was All Bran! My youngest son really enjoys the mortar and pestal so I got him to grind 1.5 cups of bran for me and we used that in the burgers and meatmalls for the month! Half a cup of all bran has nearly 50% of your daily intake of fiber! That is a crazy high amount. The more the better I say! And since you have to use something as a binding agent with the egg that you use, you can't even tell the difference. They tasted fabulous (we had those for dinner last night as they were already made :) I added tomato soup and let them simmer for an hour. Not even any complaints from the kids!

Meatballs
1lb extra lean ground beef
2 eggs
1/3 cup all bran
1/3 cup wild rice
3 tbls mustard (secret ingredient to yummy burgers!)
Worcestershire sauce, about a tsp
pepper
spices to taste (I used the organic no salt flavour from Costco)

Roll meat into balls about 2 inches. Brown balls on medium heat until brown all around. Bake in oven at 350 for about an hour, or until cooked all the way through. I like it with tomato soup flavour so I had a can of that with water, and simmer in the oven. Serve with extra rice and any side veggies you like mmm mmm mm I would have used a photo of the meatballs, but the kids ate them too fast to get one ;)