Hallelujah, scrambled eggs can be frozen!

...I need a life...

I have developed a fondness for a certain section of my freezer aisle at Aldi. My sweet breakfast burritos are benignly packed in little single servings, $1.50. They come in ranchero style. With chirozo sausage. Nearly plain...

I'm always looking for ways to make life easier for me and easier for my pocketbook. Discovering that scrambled eggs freeze well?

Let me put it to you this way:

5 cartons of eggs + 45 minutes + little sandwich bags = 20 bags of eggs.

Get it? That's 20 generous servings, definitely more than in my breakfast burritos. I think I used a loose 1-cup measure to put the eggs in the baggies. I just wanted to see how well they froze and the kids' response to it.

I mixed 2/3 of the eggs with ham (for our non-adventurous types). For the other third, I fried up a tube of chorizo sausage, added the eggs, and then dumped salsa on it.

This has worked very, very well on cheap burrito shells with some Pepper Jack cheese, making egg sandwiches, or just on the side.

Aldi prices (I'm pretty sure I'm close):

1 carton eggs = $1.79 (I bought 5).
1 pack burrito shells = $0.79 (I bought 3).
1 jar salsa = $1.80.
1 package Pepper Jack = $3.00.
1 tube chorizo sausage = $1.50 (package comes with two, use the other for chorizo and lentils).
1 package diced ham = $3.00

30 dollars for 20 pre-made breakfast burritos.

or

20 big, custom-made burritos for under $20.

**Note: I did not add cheese to the freezer portion. It might work, but I didn't chance it. Baby steps to better finances, people, so I tried not to ruin my eggs.**

We have found that if you cook the eggs in the microwave in the baggie, cooking it two minutes, taking it out to break it up, and putting it back in for another minute gets you to about where you want to go if you want to decorate it and toss it back in to melt the cheese. Tiger's Eye leaves his in a bit longer to put on toast to make an egg sandwich. With all the French toast in my freezer, the kids are having a good breakfast every day. The best part? I know exactly what they're eating!

I can't wait to sautée some onions to mix with the eggs the next time.

I have dodged the "there's nothing to eat" business for the time being.

At 7:00 a.m., I will put out my frozen pizza dough and let it thaw/rise until I drag my butt into the land of the living. Then, it will be mash, top, and bake.

Yeah, I'm egg-cited. Was that just nauseatingly corny? I thought so, too.