Here’s a great idea to help you get prepared for busy mornings: Make Ahead Breakfast Sandwiches
Make them on Sunday and freeze them for the week. They’re super easy to either defrost overnight and bake in the AM… or simply bake when totally frozen while you’re getting ready for work or school. They’re grab and go!
I used Thomas’ 100% Whole Wheat Bagels for this recipe. Normally my son might shy away from bagels that seem like they’re anywhere on the “probably good for you” spectrum, but when I used them to assemble delicious breakfast sandwiches he totally didn’t even notice that they were whole wheat. For the rest of the sandwich, you’ll need eggs, chopped spinach, pesto, cheese and cooked bacon.
Since I was going to be making an egg scramble, I wanted my egg to be able to stay in the bagel without getting squished out with every bite. We hollowed out one side of the bagel to use as a “container” for holding the scrambled egg.
Eggs are quickly scrambled with spinach and pesto. The pesto gives the eggs a little bit of flavor, and the spinach adds veggies to breakfast!
If you want to eat them now, you’ll be wrapping them in foil and baking them for about 10 minutes… just until everything gets nice and bubbly and hot.
If you’d like to save some of them (or all of them) for another day, simply wrap each breakfast sandwich tightly with foil and pop them in the freezer. The recipe below gives you instructions for how to heat them up on the day you’d like to eat them.
I tested these out on my (picky) breakfast eating son. He’s usually a cereal-for-breakfast or bagels-with-cream-cheese kind of guy. He loved these, and said he really enjoyed having something different. We froze them, and he warmed one up and ate one every morning for four days straight. The great thing is if you’re running late, you (or the kids) can grab one of these to eat on the way to school or work. Success!
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Disclosure: I am working with Thomas’ English Muffins and Bagels to create recipes using their products. I love to work with brands that I use in my kitchen every day, and this is one of them! Thank you for helping me to support great products.