Egg-i-ritos!!

So in an attempt to save myself time in the mornings and make sure Rachel and I are eating more nutritious meals, we decided to invest in a slow-cooker. We are also planning out "freezer meals." If you're unfamiliar with freezer meals, I'll break it down. Basically, you prepare a dish but double the ingredients so you have left-overs either to refrigerate or freeze. An example of a freezer meal would be spaghetti sauce(usually made in large portions anyways) and a good example of a refrigerator meal would be slow-cooker, steel-cut oatmeal. You leave the oatmeal cooking overnight in your slow-cooker so it's ready for breakfast and then refrigerate the rest and you'll have delicious oatmeal all week. Awesome! After running to Costco after work today to get a few things, Rachel and I got to work on making breakfast burritos, or as we like to call them, Egg-i-ritos! The recipe we are using consists of turkey bacon, eggs, cheese and a flour tortilla. I'm saran-wrapping each one and then they will be stored in the freezer in a zip-loc bag. Then, at 6am when I am trying to get ready for school or work and Rachel is running out the door to meet her carpool, I can pop a couple in the microwave for a minute and have delicious, nutritious breakfast, without all the preservatives. How wonderful! I thought I would take some pictures to show you guys a few of the steps and break down the amount of ingredients we used, how many burritos the amount yields, and the approximate calories per serving.

Unfortunately I didn't think to take pictures until half-way through putting the burritos together, so I don't have any pictures of how we cooked the turkey bacon or eggs. We chopped the slices of turkey bacon into bite sized pieces and cooked them first. While the bacon was cooking we whisked the eggs with a little milk and pepper. When the bacon was nice and crispy we scrambled the eggs with the bacon. It looked like this:

The pan was much fuller of course. We also had to do this in two batches of bacon/eggs because our pans are not big enough to hold all of it at once. The next thing I did was warm a few flour tortillas in the microwave for about 15 seconds. I only warmed three to four at a time because it gave me just about enough time to get them wrapped before they would cool too much and become difficult to fold again. A good amount of cheese and eggs per tortilla:

You want to remember not to overfill the tortillas, as they will be difficult to fold and also break. So after stuffing all those burritos, I had a lovely mountain of breakfast chilling on my counter. Look at all these!

Rachel and I bought a carton of 18 eggs from Costco and had 5 left over from another dozen so we used 23 eggs. We also just combined all the different cheese we had in our fridge and shredded what we needed to. Each burrito had approximately one tablespoon of cheese. The turkey bacon we bought came in a case of four packages and we used one and half so about 33 slices. This yielded 25 burritos:

I dated the bags with the "freeze-by" date on the turkey bacon, which was Oct. 26th and then popped them into the freezer. To reheat them in the morning, take them out of the plastic wrap, wrap in a paper towel and microwave for 1-2 minutes. Quick and easy in the morning, even if initially it takes a good amount of time to make them. I would rather cook at night and save it for later then have to cook a meal when I'm still half-asleep in the morning!

Ingredients:
-23 Eggs(regular, nothing fancy)
-33 slices of turkey bacon
-4 cups shredded cheese
-25 8" flour tortillas
Yeilds:
25 breakfast burritos at approximately 298 calories a piece!


Now, to clean my kitchen and hit the hay. I can't wait for breakfast in the morning!