Saturday, September 21, 2013

Breakfast Burrito


My oldest son loves breakfast burritos especially the McDonalds one. When he first started wanting them daily my husband was willing to buy them frozen pre made. I was not to willing to pay between $6 and $7 for 4 frozen burritos when he wants to eat them 5 days a week. He prefers a hot breakfast most mornings. So a set off trying to make him some breakfast burritos about a year ago and it took me a year to get it down to what he wanted. For a while he was fine with just egg and sausage claiming he did not want cheese on them. Then when we started using his best friends mom as a sitter he started telling the sitter he wanted cheese in them. I have tried shredded cheese and velveta cheese. He didn't like either of them. 
So this summer as he was eating a McDonald's breakfast burrito I grabbed his second one and took a bit and looked at it because he says that's what he wants it like. It hit me I need to use a cheese sauce like cheese wiz or something.

So for I added cheese wiz to my shopping list for when I was ready to make a batch. I could find it so I got a jar of Ragu cheese sauce.

It is actually cheaper when I finally did find it so I am using this. 
This first batch I made my son was in the kitchen and saying no I don't want that. So I made one burrito with the cheese sauce on it and let him try it. His reply was 'MMMM that's good!"

So here is what I do. I crumble a pack of sausage browning it in a pain. Place that on a plate to drain with a paper towel. He prefers a bacon and pork sausage. Then cook any where from 18 to 22 eggs scrambling them.
Then mix the sausage and eggs. I let the mixture cook just a bit as I get my tortilla ready. I like to heat the hole package of tortilla in the microwave so they are moveable. 
Then I start to fill and fold them.
I also put my cheese sauce in a ziplock Baggie to make it easy to put it on this time. 
Once everything was in I folded them.
Above is the first two folds I make. 
I place them in bags and froze them labeled with Breakfast burrito cause I freeze left over taco meat already folded up like a burrito for work so if I don't have left overs or time to make lunch. 
Then end product is about 2 weeks or more worth of breakfast for my oldest son. 
And myself sometimes. They are very good. I haven't done the math lately since I started doing them this way but at one point I was spring about .45 to 50 cents a burrito. That is great!!! 


No comments:

Post a Comment