1 November 2026

IKEA - Meat and not meat balls - and potato cakes! [@NLi10]

 As part of my trip to IKEA to buy spooky lanterns for Halloween (and still get no Trick Or Treat visits) we bought a big meal's worth of meatballs - and because of the veggies - non meat balls too!



HUVUDROLL red bags are meat - pork and beef mix - and these are the classic IKEA meatballs.


These are some mushed together vegetables pretending to be meatballs.  They'd be better as a side.


These are shredded potato pancakes - they are most awesome - a little fry and they are sorted.


This is the gravy that brings it all together - but - it required ingredients added to it to make it sing like in the IKEA café so we have saved it for later.


Potato cake goodness


With the veggie balls as a 'side'


With the goodness of the actual meatballs.

Forgot to buy the lingonberry jam, but cranberry works too - but we were at nannas so had no supplies.

Tastes as good as I remember, but I could have sworn that they were much bigger!  Maybe I'm just getting old.

Either way, a classic meal, and we still have the frozen IKEA pancakes to try another weekend.