24 Hours of Cooking (breakfasts)

I really love the concept of Once-A-Month Cooking but I also typically despise freezer food.  The one success I've found is breakfasts.

I wanted to give a few things a try again so Peyton and I broke out the crock pots and rice cooker and set to work.  I set up all three the night before I wanted to tackle the cooking so that at least three things would be done when I got up.  (24 hour cooking)

I truly loved the month that I cooked a month's worth of breakfast burritos and froze them to throw in my lunch bag everyday, so I decided to build on that and freeze a month of breakfasts but mix it up a bit.  I figured on a 4 week month and made 2 breakfast burritos, 2 egg mcmuffins and 1 bowl of oatmal for each week. 

The egg mcmuffins were something I dreamed up so I wasnt 100% sure how they'd turn out but I was SOO pleased when I tried the first one!  And it was SOO easy!

10 eggs, scrambled

1/2 lb deli sliced chicken breast sliced into small strips

small handfull of cheese

Sandwich between 2 slices of an english muffin

Peyton whisked the eggs for me

YUM!!

Next time I plan to substitute a whole wheat english muffin but this is what I had this time.

I had tried the freezer-friendly breakfast burritos from the MoneySavingMom.com site and was very pleased. I couldn't remember what all she put in hers but I thought it would suit me just fine to use the same ingredients from the egg mcmuffins. I also found a new brand of whole-wheat tortillas as Walmart and, no kidding, they are the best packaged tortilla's I've ever had.

16 eggs, scrambled (the burritos hold more than the mcmuffins)

1/2 lb deli sliced chicken breast sliced into small strips

small handfull of shredded cheese

wrap up in tortilla

Soo good!

I tried a crock-pot recipe for steel-cut oatmeal but it failed miserably. So I cooked up a batch on the stove and it was perfect! One large batch of oatmeal made exactly four bowls for me to take to work. I topped each bowl with a little cinnamon and about a teaspoon of brown sugar.

I seriously look forward to breakfast every morning now.  I never feel like I'm eating the same thing over and over because I mix it up and everything froze well and is perfect (for me) microwaved at work.

It really did make four bowls.  One was in the diswasher at picture time.