Costco's New Meatball Sub Is the Easiest Friday Night Dinner

After a long week of work, kids, school, and dealing with real life, we honestly don’t usually feel like making dinner on Friday night. And since Costco on a Saturday morning is more stimulation than we can handle, we’ll often find ourselves heading there on Friday afternoon or evening, so it just makes sense to pick up dinner while we roam the aisles. Costco has a new offering for its members ( sign up here !) in the prepared foods area that’s one of our pizza-shop favorites. It feeds a crowd, and can be quickly heated up for dinner: a meatball sandwich that weighs in at over two full pounds of bread, meat, cheese, and marinara.

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Instagram account CostcoHotFinds shared that they saw the new meatball marinara sandwich at their Costco being sold for $5.99/pound, which worked out to about $14. The sub sandwiches are built on artisan hearth bread, which is filled with beef and pork meatballs, marinara sauce, lots of provolone cheese, and shredded Parmesan cheese for extra flavor. The sandwiches are sold cold, but can easily be heated up in the oven (or the air fryer!) until the bread is toasty and the cheese is melted and bubbly.

The meatball marinara sandwich is bigger than what you’d get at a regular sub shop. It definitely can feed more than one person, or it can be portioned out for a few different meals. And though some commenters on Instagram and Reddit said it was “super easy to make at home,” others pointed out that you could say the same thing about basically any prepared food. The whole point is that this is the type of meal you can grab after a long week when you don’t feel like having to go to all four corners of the store to pick up your ingredients, spend a bunch of time cooking and assembling your recipe, and then have to worry about using up any of the leftovers before they go bad.

As Reddit user Majestic-Apple5205 put it, “Yeah you could grow some wheat and make some flour and buy a calf and a piglet and fatten them up and make your own super cheap meatball hero. Why would anyone pay $15 for a two and half pound sandwich that they can eat as soon as they get home?? people have no sense these days.” We have to admit, that made us LOL.

If you’re craving an easy, comforting, cheesy classic for dinner, head to Costco and pick up a meatball marinara sandwich for the fam. Sure, you could start a fledgling farm to make all of your ingredients from scratch, but as Ina Garten always says, “store bought is fine!”

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