Dad's Working Man's Macaroni Salad

Beef bologna and American cheese make a heavier macaroni salad for a man's perspective. Good, and always gets snarfed up wherever I take it.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 40 mins
• Calories: 331 Calories

Ingredients

• ground black pepper to taste
• 2 cups elbow macaroni
• 6 slices American cheese
• 1 large stalk celery, diced
• 1 small red onion, diced
• 2 tablespoons prepared yellow mustard
• 4 thick slices beef bologna
• 5 hard-cooked eggs, diced
• 6 sweet pickles, diced
• ½ large green bell pepper, seeded and diced
• 1 ½ cups low-fat creamy salad dressing (such as Miracle Whip Light®)

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook elbow macaroni in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, 8 minutes. Drain and cool under running water until chilled. Transfer to a large salad bowl.

Step 2

Stack American cheese slices alternating with bologna slices and cut into 1/2-inch dice. (Stacking helps prevent cheese from sticking together.) Mix bologna and cheese into macaroni and stir in hard-cooked eggs, sweet pickles, celery, green bell pepper, and red onion. Mix thoroughly.

Step 3

Stir creamy salad dressing and mustard into the salad and season with black pepper. Cover salad and chill in refrigerator until serving time.