Hearty Breakfast Burritos

Let's yap about feeling full for a long day ahead.

Breakfast doesn't get any easier than these grab-and-go hearty breakfast burritos. Sure, they take some time to make. But once you have them in the freezer, you can enjoy 10 very fast and very filling meals.

If you ask Doug what his favorite food is, he will respond enthusiastically with a category: "Breakfast!" He loves it all: cold cereal with fruit, eggs & bacon, pancakes, french toast, breakfast casseroles, muffins, toast, hot oatmeal - all the breakfasty things. He even created his own hot oatmeal & grains recipe that we call Super Oats (post coming soon).

Me? Not so much. Gimme a few cups of dark roast with a little creamer, and I'm good until 10 or 11-ish.

But Doug. He's definitely a guy who has to have a meal in the morning. He likes to have coffee at home in the morning, then swing by Starbucks for a tall Pike Place on his way to the office or running errands. He's also very much a man of routine, and this is what he does on the daily - even on weekends, even through the quarantine.

One day he was talking about his morning stop and mentioned he got a breakfast sandwich. I said, "You know, I used to make breakfast burritos for catering events. Would you like me to make some to keep in the freezer? You could just grab one, microwave, and go." His response was, of course, YES!

That's how it started.

That's how tortilla shells, peppers, tater tots, eggs, & breakfast meats keep magically appearing in the refrigerator. That's how I'm on the hook for maybe eternity.

So, yeah. I was never a breakfast person. Lunch has always been my favorite meal. These burritos, though. Whoa. They are hearty. Like Hungry Man TV Dinner Hearty - but without the little mystery dessert thing in the middle.

So. Dang. Hearty.

I can eat one mid-morning and not even think about food again until dinner. That's saying a lot, because I'm always thinking about my next meal. One of these carries me right through lunch. And that's a good thing when I have a long day ahead. For most days, though, they are almost a little TOO big.

We're posting the hearty version now, but my next batch is going to be made with 8-inch tortillas instead of 10-inch.

Enjoy not feeling hungry all day!

UPDATE: Smaller, healthier, human-scale Vegetarian Breakfast Burritos are now on the blog!

Also, I tried tucking both ends in, but I didn't like so much tortilla on each end. Give it a try, though; you might think it's great.