Breakfast

This is all you need to know about breakfast.  It takes five minutes and it’s the best thing ever.

Get yourself some pre-cooked bacon.  Either buy a pack yourself, cook it and freeze it, or buy a package of pre-cooked bacon and put it in your freezer.  Having pre-cooked bacon on hand is what I like to call, “Easy Street”.

This is an easy thing to make, and it’s classic breakfast.  Learn how to make this and you’ll never go unsatisfied again.

I use toast in my version, but you can use something like hashbrown potatoes instead of toast, or in addition to toast!

Here’s what you need to make breakfast:

• 4 slices of pre-cooked bacon
• 2 eggs
• 2 pieces of bread
• Ketchup (if desired)
• Fresh-cracked pepper
• Some cheddar cheese
• A little bit of butter/margarine
• A little bit of cooking oil

Here’s how to make breakfast (if you follow this exact order, your breakfast takes less than five minutes to make.  Seriously!):

1.  Turn on the stove to medium heat and pour a little bit of cooking oil into a pan.

A bit of oil on the pan

2.  While the oil is heating up, put the bread in the toaster and start it toasting.

Bread in the toaster

3.  Crack the two eggs into the pan with the oil.

Cracking the eggs

Eggs all cracked. One yolk broke but that’s okay

4.  Take some cheddar cheese (slices, grated, whatever you have) and put some on top of each of the egg yolks.  Then turn the heat down to medium-low and allow the eggs to cook.  You can cover the pan with a lid if you want – this will help the cheese melt faster and will cook the eggs a little longer.

Cheese slices on top of the yolks

Putting another pan on top to help it all cook faster

5.  Put the pre-cooked bacon on a plate in the microwave and nuke it for about 30 seconds.

Delicious nuked cooked bacon

6.  When the toast pops, smear it with buttery goodness.

Smearing with buttery goodness

7.  Put the toast and the bacon onto a big breakfast plate.  Use a spatula to slide the eggs onto the big breakfast plate.  Remember to turn off the stove!

A plate of satisfaction

8.  If you like ketchup with stuff, add a few squirts of ketchup and you’re all done!

Now that’s breakfast!!

A perfect toast scoop

This hits the spot – that’s all there is to it!

Here’s how much it costs to make: 

• Bacon:  $0.75
• Eggs:  $0.50
• Bread:  $0.60
• Ketchup:  $0.10
• Pepper:  $0.02
• Cheese:  $0.45
• Butter/margarine:  $0.05
• Cooking oil:  $0.05

Total cost to make:  $2.52

You’ll never find breakfast anywhere for this cheap, so learn how to make it yourself and enjoy it on your couch!  It’s so easy and you don’t have to leave your house!

Hungry for more breakfast ideas?  Here are some to keep you going:

• Melty Bagel Heaven
• Spicy Scrambled Eggs

Leftover Breakfast Sammie

I’m not a huge breakfast person, but sometimes I go to restaurants for lunch/breakfast with other people.  It’s a ten dollar meal and I’ve learned how to make it a two-meal deal.

I like to order an omelette because omelettes are delicious, filling, and nutritious.   But I usually get full about halfway through, so rather than just tell the server to take it away, I ask them to put it in a take-out container.  Then I take it home.  The next time I’m hungry, I turn it into a thing of beauty – for the second time.

Here’s what my leftovers usually look like:  

What I take home from breakfast at a restaurant – half an omelette, a slice of bacon, and some bread.

Here’s what I do with them:

1.  First of all, I usually don’t use the bread.  I always keep it because I think I’ll use it, but then I don’t use it.

2.  I get two fresher bread slices and put them in the toaster to toast.

Fresh bread, pre-toaster

3.  Then I take the omelette and the bacon, put them on a plate, and put them in the microwave for about 30 seconds.

Leftover omelette and piece of bacon after being nuked

4.  Once my bread is toasted, I put a nice layer of sriracha sauce on one side.

Deelish!

5.  Then I stack the omelette and the bacon on top of it.

Stacked

6.  Then I put some sriracha on the other piece of bread and slap it on top.

Slapped with Sriracha!

7.  Then I cut the sandwich in half on a diagonal, because it always looks better that way…

Cut in half

8.  Then I stack it on a plate and admire my delicious snack… a glorious omelette and bacon sandwich!!!

Check this out!!

This is a great way to make a $10 meal last you for two meals… it’s quick and delicious and it ROCKS!!!

Here are some other cheap and tasty recipe ideas:

• Super Mini Pizzas
• The SmackDown Sandwich
• The Taco Sandwich
• Groovy Pizza Griller
• Leftover Omelette Equals Creamy Sandwich

Spicy Scrambled Eggs

They’re great for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!

Eggs are really good for you, and they’re really filling.  And also, they only take about five minutes to make, start to finish!  So they’re a great go-to meal when you don’t feel like being in the kitchen for long.

  These are totally easy to make.  You need to be able to scramble an egg and chop some delicious veggies.

For my Spicy Scrambled Eggs, you’ll need:

1. 2 or 3 eggs
2. A little bit of cooking oil
3. 1/4 of a white onion
4. A handful of pickled jalapenos
5. Pre-cooked Bacon
6. Freshly cracked black pepper

Here’s how to make them:

1.  Put a little bit of cooking oil in a pan (use a good non-stick pan if you have one) and let it heat up for about 30 seconds.  I use medium heat.

Oil in a pan

2.  Crack the eggs into the pan and stir them around using a plastic utensil (a metal utensil is could ruin your pan) until the yolks are all beaten and mixed.

Eggs!

3.   Add the pre-cooked bacon in with the eggs.  Then add some pepper.  Everything is better with pepper.

Bacon and eggs – yum!

4.  Dice up the onion and add it to the mix.

5.  Take some pickled jalapenos and add them too.  You can slice them up if you want – I like them whole!

Looks good!

6.  Stir everything around, making sure it gets all nice and mixed.

Mmmm!! Just another minute and they’ll be ready!

7.  Everybody likes their eggs cooked a little differently – some people like them runnier, some people like them really well-cooked.  Cook your Smokin’ Scrambled Eggs until the eggs are done the way you like them!

That’s it – you’re done!

  Here’s what it costs to make: 

1. Eggs:  $0.75
2. Cooking oil:  $0.03
3. White onion:  $0.35
4. Jalapenos:  #0.15
5. Bacon:  $0.75
6. Pepper:  $0.03

   Total cost per delicious meal:  $2.06

Amazing!  Give them a try!  They take less than 10 minutes to make!

   Try one of these other scrumptious 10-minute meals:

• Snappy Nachos
• Tangy Wontons

The Ultimate Breakfast Wrap

It’s tasty. It’s fantastic. It’s healthy. It’s filling. It’s everything you want it to be.  It’s the Ultimate Breakfast Wrap.

Day or night, night or day, this wrap is amazing.

To feast on this, you need to know how to wrap a wrap, cut veggies, cook bacon and make scrambled eggs.

Here’s What You Need to Make The Ultimate Breakfast Wrap:

• 1 tortilla wrap
• A little chunk of cheddar cheese
• 3 slices of pre-cooked bacon (each slice approx. 4 inches long)
• A small handful of lettuce
• 2 eggs
• 1/8 of a green pepper
• 1/8 of a red pepper
• 1/4 of a Roma tomato
• 1/10 of a white onion
• A small handful of pickled jalapenos
• Sriracha sauce
• A little bit of cooking oil
• Fresh-cracked black pepper

Here’s How To Make It:

1.  Put a pan on the stove on low-medium heat and put a bit of cooking oil in it.

Oil in a pan

2.  Crack the eggs and pour them in with the oil.

Eggs!

3.  Sprinkle with some freshly cracked black pepper.  Use a plastic utensil to stir the eggs around.

Delicious freshly cracked black pepper

All stirred up

4.  While the eggs are cooking, chop up all of the veggies (the red and green peppers, the onion, and the tomato) and put them in a bowl together.   Then stir them up.

Red and green peppers, onions, and tomatoes in a bowl

5.  Pour the veggies into the egg mixture.

Veggies in with the eggs

6.  Chop up your pre-cooked bacon and throw it into the pan.  If your bacon is frozen, put it in the microwave for 20 seconds to heat it up a bit first.

Chopped up bacon

Chopped up bacon in with the veggies

7.  Slice up a small handful of pickled jalapenos and throw them into the pan.

Topped with jalapenos

8.  Stir up the egg mixture until the eggs are cooked the way you like them.

9.  Grate up the cheddar cheese and put it on a small plate.

Grated cheddar

10.  Put the tortilla wrap on a big plate and microwave it for 15 seconds.  This softens up the tortilla so you can roll it up without it cracking and breaking.

Tortilla wrap on a plate

11.  Sprinkle the grated cheese in the middle of the wrap, like in the picture below:

Cheese in the middle

12.  Top the cheese with the delicious egg mixture.

Yum that looks good!

13.  Squeeze some sriracha sauce on top of the eggs.

Sriracha sauce!

14.  Shred a bit of iceberg lettuce and sprinkle it on top of everything.

Topped with lettuce

15.  Follow this link to see how to wrap up your wrap.

All rolled up and ready to eat!

Enjoy!!

Here’s What It Costs To Make It:

• Tortilla wrap:  $0.40
• Cheese:  $0.60
• Bacon:  $0.40
• Lettuce:  $0.15
• Eggs:  $0.50
• Green pepper:  $0.10
• Red pepper:  $0.10
• Tomato:  $0.05
• Onion:  $0.10
• Jalapenos:  $0.15
• Sriracha sauce:  $0.10
• Oil:  $0.02
• Pepper:  $0.01

Total cost to make:  $2.68

What a great price for a delicious and satisfying meal that fills you up!

Here’s a look at the tasty insides after a few bites:

Wooohoooooooo

Want some more quick breakfast ideas?  Check out these recipes!

• Melty Bagel Heaven
• Spicy Scrambled Eggs