“Mama? When are we having meatball subs again?”

Talk about simple. Plus delicious and filling. And just four ingredients to happy tummies. It’s a hit in my family – with five children, ranging from preschoolers to teens.

You can use a bag of frozen, store-bought meatballs. I use homemade because they are better for you and taste delicious 🙂

I recently socked away some meatballs and meatloaves when I did a bit of big-shop cooking. I invested about half an hour forming the meatballs by hand. Here’s a quick run down on the meatball batch:

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Meatball Subs

Easy weeknight dinner!

Prep Time30 minutes

Cook Time30 minutes

Servings - 8 servings

Ingredients 

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• 2.5 lbs ground beef (only 1.25 lbs served each meal)
• 2 end pieces sandwich bread - pinched into bread crumbs by hand (no eggs for us because of allergies)
• 2 cups mozzarella cheese, divided
• 2 tsp Jane's Krazy Mixed Up Salt (can substitute dash each of salt, black pepper, garlic salt)
• 20 oz spaghetti sauce, warmed
• 4 Hoagie or 8 hot dog buns

Instructions

• Mix ground beef, bread crumbs, 1 cup of mozzarella and Jane's Krazy Mixed Up Salttogether.
• Form mixture into meatballs by hand and place on cookie sheet.
• Cook half the meatballs at 350 degrees for half an hour.*
• Place the other half of the meatballs on a cookie sheet to freeze then later move them to a zip top freezer bag.
• Warm up desired amount of spaghetti sauce in a sauce pan.
• For each serving, just load about four or five meatballs into your bun.
• Top with warmed spaghetti sauce and remaining cup of cheese.
• Enjoy!

*If cooking frozen meatballs at a later time, be sure to thaw before cooking at 350 degrees for half an hour.

Easy to fix. Easily becomes a favorite.

Any leftover meatballs can be served over spaghetti another night. In fact, a fellow homeschool mother brought us this meal with an accompanying zip top storage bag full of cooked spaghetti noodles. Now I make sure I make batches of meatballs so I am ready to do the same. For more specific details on this round of meatballs and meatloaves, see Basic Beef.