{"id":50744,"date":"2015-10-01T14:20:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=50744"},"modified":"2021-09-25T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T17:26:30","slug":"save-time-and-money-with-make-ahead-breakfast-burritos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/living\/food-drink\/save-time-and-money-with-make-ahead-breakfast-burritos\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Time and Money With Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love me a good breakfast burrito.<\/p>\n

They’re great for when you’re on the go, and if you’re generous with the stuffing, they can really fill you up.<\/p>\n

But if you’re like most busy American men, you just don’t have time to whip up a breakfast burrito in the mornings. Sure, you could do one with just egg and cheese, but we all know the best part of a breakfast burrito is the copious amount of savory, meaty sausage, which takes a little while to cook. So you stop by a fast food joint to pick up a breakfast burrito, or you microwave the frozen variety you bought from the grocery store.<\/p>\n

The thing is, stopping at a QuickTrip to pick up a breakfast burrito may not even save you that much time and it’s not saving you any money (the going rate for a QT burrito is $2.50 right now). And those store-bought pre-made burritos? They’re dinky. I have to eat two of them to fill me up and they’re always skimpy on the sausage.<\/p>\n

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The inside of an El Monterey breakfast burrito. Hey, where’s the beef? And by beef, I mean sausage.<\/p><\/div>\n

What’s more, with the fast food and store-bought breakfast burritos, you’re getting a lot more additives and preservatives. Just take a look at the list of ingredients for El Monterey breakfast burritos:<\/p>\n

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Mmmm, sodium steroyl lactylate, sodium metabisulifite, L-cysteine, yellow no. 6……who’s hungry?<\/p><\/div>\n

In an effort to save time and money as well as get the kind of breakfast burrito I like to chow down on in the morning, I spent an hour and a half one Saturday morning a few weeks ago making a batch of 14 man-sized, sausage-stuffed, egg and cheese burritos that I could freeze and re-heat for later. Now whenever I’m in the mood for a breakfast burrito, I just pull one out of the freezer, warm it up, and go to town.<\/p>\n

Below I share the steps I took in preparing my make-ahead frozen breakfast burritos.<\/p>\n

Ingredients and Prep Time<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"Ingredients<\/a><\/p>\n

You can make these burritos as simple or as complicated as you want. Just keep in mind the more ingredients you add, the more expensive and time-consuming they are to make. For my batch I went with the following ingredients:<\/p>\n