Breakfast Burritos

Breakfast bars get so expensive to purchase and often have lots of sugar in them. These will even be easy to make when school starts back up and we're both super busy. J and our friend A ate them right up. We still have a load in the freezer too! It took me a little over an hour to make these, but it was way cheaper than the nasty trash bars we were buying and I'm pretty sure I could have done it more efficiently and will work on shaving some time off next time I make them!

Breakfast Burritos

Ingredients:

2 lb bacon, crumbled (I used turkey)

2 lb breakfast sausage (I used Jimmy Dean reduced fat)

1 large onion, chopped

1 c diced bell pepper (I just used a large green bell)

20 eggs

36 fajita sized flour tortillas

8 oz shredded cheddar cheese (I used sharp)

Directions:

1. I cook my bacon in the microwave on a strainer. If you don't, this is the step you cook them in the skillet ;) Drain the grease from the bacon and set the bacon aside on a paper towel.

2. In a skillet brown and crumble the sausage until cooked through. Drain and set sausage aside on paper towels.

3. Saute the onion and bell pepper until the onion is translucent and the peppers are on the softer side.

4. While the onion and pepper are cooking, crack and scramble those 20 eggs! (I've heard suggestions to scramble large amounts in a blender...but I hate cleaning my blender :))

5. Once the bell pepper and onion are cooked, add the eggs and cook just as you would for regular ol scrambled eggs. Once they're cooked, add the bacon and sausage back to the mix.

6. Turn off the heat and sprinkle with cheese. Cover and let sit about 5 minutes.

7. Warm your tortillas (I used the microwave) to prevent them from cracking when you make the burritos

8. Use 1/4 c filling for each burrito

9. Continue making them until you run out of filling!

Once all of your burritos are made place them in a freezer bag and seal, removing as much air as possible. Frozen burritos will store for 2-3 months in regular freezer bags! With a food saver they should last 5-6 months.

To eat, wrap loosely in a paper towel, place on a plate in the microwave and cook for 1 minute on each side. J put Louisiana on his and A used a little salsa!

*You could stretch the recipe even further by cooking up some hash browns and using them as added filler for the burritos!