[grellis]

Here's one more cooking tip from a dame who has gone from kitchen disaster to pretty good cook in the last decade: Some of the tastiest, simplest and most traditional recipes of all can be found right on the boxes. I just tried a meatloaf recipe the other day from the cardboard canister of store-brand bread crumbs. It was out of this world!

[Verloona Ti]

The best cook books are those self published by church organizations as a fund raiser, and especially if they are plastic spiral bound. If the cook book has plastic spiral spines-the recipes are always good. Seriously, it’s like a law of nature.

[fatnotlazy]

My mother used oatmeal in her meatloaf. She found her recipe on the oatmeal box.

I have an old recipe for chocolate cherry cake that appeared on a Duncan Hines cake mix box — chocolate or devils food cake mix (and the necessary add-ins) and a can of cherries. After you pour or spread the prepared cake batter into the pan, you make a well in the middle and dump the cherries in. As the cake bakes, the cherries tend to migrate from the middle to the edge. Whenever I make that cake, it’s gone in 60 seconds.

[Scotswife]

“I just tried a meatloaf recipe the other day from the cardboard canister of store-brand bread crumbs”

That’s how I got my stuffed shell recipe (P&R shells).
I’ll check out the bread crumb packaging though. Thanks!