I hate mornings.
I hate everything about mornings including food.
I get hungry at 10:30am.
I married a morning person.
I have a morning person work schedule.
Quite a conundrum.
I spent the first couple decades of my life skipping breakfast and the next couple trying to figure out some kind of fuel source that doesn't make me hurl.
I'm not a fan of eggs. Traditional breakfast options are too greasy or too sweet. Oh and while I'm being whiny, I should point out that when hubby retired and was home when I was getting ready for work, it made me late and forgetting lunch...simply because he made the mistake of "talking to me".
My solution is breakfast burritos. Frozen in batches. A month's worth left at work to re-heat.
I buy a 1.5 pound package of spicy, Italian bulk sausage and the same amount of ground pork or turkey (whichever is cheaper). I bake that on a rimmed 1/2 bun pan at 450 for about 20 minutes. After it cools, I break it into smaller pieces with my fingers and add 2 packages (2 pounds total) of frozen vegetables (any combo you like). Normally I add onions and mushrooms for filler and flavor, but I skipped them because of the new veg mixes. Saved time. :)
I also roast about 5-6 small potatoes, diced, using the same pan I cooked the sausage, using a small amount of the left over fat from the meat. That also takes about 20 minutes and can be done at the same time as the meat with a small amount of olive oil.
I heat the tortillas 5 at a time in the microwave for 30 seconds to make them soft. Then I add about 2/3 c of the filling to each.
No 2 batches of my breakfast burritos are ever the same. This combo makes 20 burritos, about 470 calories and 45 carbs each. They cost $1.25 each and re-heat in the microwave in 2 minutes.
