Make It Monday: Freezer Breakfast Sandwiches

These efforts are the result of my desire to have breakfasts on hand that were hot and easy to make for the kids when we are try to rush around in the morning. Not one of us in our family likes to get up any earlier than we have to or our body wants to, so that means we don't have a lot of time to make a hot breakfast. But with a little preparation ahead of time I can package up

Ingredients Needed: 

• 1 dozen eggs
• 2 bags of English Muffins (total of 12 needed)
• 12 slices of cheese
• 12 slices of ham or bacon

To bake eggs in the oven, just cook them in lightly coated muffin cups for 15 minutes at 350 degrees. It's an easy way to make 12 over hard (even though the yolk doesn't look cooked in the picture it is solid) all at once.

The only thing you need to cook in advance is the eggs.

The next step is to assemble. I laid out pieces of plastic wrap on the kitchen table and did a sort of assembly line of putting together my sandwiches. Wrap them all up and place in a gallon freezer bag. Microwave each individually as needed.

Some tips for microwaving these:

• Giving you an exact time is hard with microwaves because each are different.
• We take off the cheese and heat the sandwich for 1 1/2 minutes at 50% power and then put the cheese on it and heat for 10 more seconds.

Make It Monday: Freezer Breakfast Burritos

At the start of the school year I thought I would go ahead and make a bunch of Paleo Freezer Meals, as well as a bunch of freezer meals so that the kids could have a hot breakfast every morning but no one has to get up any earlier to either make it or enjoy it. I am going to share a few items I made over upcoming Mondays and then do a Breakfast Freezer Meals Round Up, because just like the Paleo Freezer Meals I did them all at the same time. In fact, I make both the Breakfast Freezer Meals and Paleo Freezer Meals on the same night (my freezer is well stocked, but is quickly diminishing.)

I bought all my ingredients at Aldi's (eggs were 79c a dozen at the time) and I figure it costs about 55-60c a burrito, whereas they sold premade breakfast burritoes there in a box of 4 for $4.

Freezer Breakfast Burritos

2 Tbsp butter
1/3 cup chopped green onion
18 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 cup chopped ham
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
16 oz shredded cheddar cheese
20 large flour tortillas

Directions:

• Saute onion until soft and lightly browned in a large frying pan.
• Beat together eggs, salt, pepper and milk and add to the frying pan and cook until eggs are done. 
• Stir in ham until is ham is warmed through.
• Allow egg mixture to cool slightly before stuffing burritos.
• Scoop 1/3-1/2 C of egg mixture on to each tortillas. You will divide this among 20 tortillas.
• Top with cheese.
• Fold in ends and roll up burrito.
• Wrap in foil or wrap and store in a gallon freezer bag.

Microwave Instructions

• Take out 1 burritos and wrap a paper towel around it.
• Heat for 1-2 minutes, you will have to test this out with your microwave. Ours take 1 1/2 minutes to cook.
• Top with salsa and sour cream, both optional of course.