Growing Boy Breakfast Burritos

The 14yo boy met with the football coach at school back in January.  The meeting went over how the season went for him (it didn’t for him, knee surgery #4 in July and working with an intense athletic PT rehab center until he was cleared for sports in December), and what he can do to prepare for next season.  Coach OB sees him growing and gaining some muscle, like 25# of muscle for next season.  They talked about off season nutrition and lifting. 

Off season nutrition went like this: eat protein and good fats, cut back on the cereal and drink your milk and eat your veggies.  So we are started with breakfast and eating eggs, an excellent source of protein. 

Louie’s Breakfast Burritos 

1 lb Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage

1 red pepper, chopped

1 onion, chopped

1 lb bacon

2 cups potato crowns, baked per package directions and chopped

14 eggs

Salt and pepper

2.5 cups grated Mexican blend cheese, divided

10 large burrito size tortillas

Cook bacon however you prefer, I like to bake it in the oven.  Chop into bite size pieces.  Bake potato crowns according to package directions, chop. 

Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium high heat.  Add sausage and brown, breaking into small pieces. Drain.  Add the chopped onion and red pepper.  Cook until it is all browned.   Add the chopped bacon and mix together.  Remove half into a freezer safe container and freeze for a second batch in a few weeks. 

In a large bowl, crack eggs, add salt and pepper and beat eggs.  (I used my immersion blender).  Add beaten eggs to skillet with remaining meat mixture.  

Cook eggs with meat, stirring often with a rubber spatula.  When eggs are almost done, add 1/2 cup grated cheese and the chopped potato crowns.  Stir it all up and continue cooking another minute until eggs are just about done.  Overcooking will yield dry eggs and no one likes dry eggs in a burrito. 🤮

Heat 10 large burrito tortillas on a low heat griddle.  

Taking one burrito at a time, spoon a generous serving spoonful of egg mixture into the center of the tortilla; add 1-2 tbsp of cheese.  Wrap up the tortilla and filling tightly and roll up into a square of foil. 

Wrap up all 10.  Put one in the fridge for tomorrow, the rest can go in a ziploc in the freezer. 

To reheat: wrap in a damp paper towel and microwave for 1-1:30 seconds.  Every morning, when Louie heats up a burrito, he takes one out of the freezer and puts in the fridge for the next day.