Breakfast for the Overachiever

I love lists.  As in, ADORE lists.  And I tend to make a list for everything in my life.  To-do lists, grocery lists, life lists, future lists, pro-con lists, idea lists...you get the idea.  I get quite ambitious with my lists and tend to bite off more than I can chew.  Coach Husband is constantly rolling his eyes or huffing & puffing about my crazy lists.

Most every night before I go to sleep I make a list of what I need to accomplish then next day & then color-code the list by morning, day or night time activity.  Most mornings I am up by 5:30 for my devotional (right now I am finishing up a Study of Ruth...fabulous!), one-two household chores & finally to get ready for work.  I am terrible about fitting breakfast into my mornings.  If something has to be sacrificed normally that's what goes.  Having a husband that is anal intentional about eating well & staying in shape I always feel a tad bit guilty.

Morning duty is a part of being a teacher, especially a kindergarten teacher.  Every morning from 7:25-7:55 I sit outside my classroom to help my students make good choices sitting outside the room.  It's the perfect to time for breakfast and normally the time my stomach starts to grumble.  I am not big on muffins or sugary filled breakfast...I want my calories to count!!  So I was paroozing Pintrest one day had had some inspiration from quite a few different places to introduce my version of a Breakfast On the Go.

Over-Achiever Breakfast on the Go

18 XL Eggs

18 Whole Wheat English Muffins

Bacon

Shredded Cheddar Cheese

Butter

Salt

Pepper

1. Grease a muffin tin with cooking spray & crack one egg into each tin.
   
   
   
   2. Salt & peeper each individual egg to your preference.  Pop in the oven at 350 degrees.  Cook until you can insert a knife/toothpick int the center of the egg & it comes out cleanly.  
   
   
   
   3. Split the English Muffins & butter each side.  Slip them onto a baking tin and toast in the oven to your liking. 
   
   
   4. Cook your bacon!  Being a Southern lady I only cook mine in a skillet...Coach Husband is a firm believer in nuking the pig.  We're working on him.  
   
   
   5. Cut 18 rectangles of aluminum foil.  On each foil put an open English Muffin.  Place your bacon on the bottom English Muffin, an egg next & finally top with shredded cheese.  (Secret: I hate dairy, BUT this is the perfect way for me to slip some in without actually tasting it).  
   
   
   
   
   
   6. Pop the top part of the English Muffin on top and wrap in tin-foil.  Place in a Zip-lock bag and toss in the freezer! 
   
   
   
   The night before eating simply de-frost a sandwich in the fridge...the next morning microwave it in the morning, put it back in the bag and its perfect portable.  
   I make between 15-20 at a time and have a month's worth of work-week breakfasts on hand.  It's a quick 30 minute assembly on a Sunday afternoon that ensure THIS over-achiever isn't sacrificing heath for checking things off a list.