Breakfast For the week. Gluten Free too!!

I have to eat breakfast every morning, this little girl can not skip it, but somewhere along the way eating anything sweet in the morning started do disagree with me. Cereal, fruit, porridge. All things I love, just not first thing in the morning.

Like almost every one else this day and age mornings are hectic so I set out to build something that I could make ahead and pop in the microwave once I get to work or on my way out the door.

A breakfast egg based muffin type dish is what I was after. There are several recipes for this type of thing on the internet. Some with bread in the bottom of the muffin, some with whole eggs, scrambled eggs, biscuits, ham, bacon and sausage. There was lots of options to make this idea your own. So I did just that.

Here is what you'll need for my take on this. But go ahead switch up the veggies, or the meat or cheese.

8 eggs
1/4 cup of egg whites
1 Cup of shredded cheddar cheese
4 strips of bacon - Chopped into pieces.
1 small zucchini- quartered and thinly sliced
4 green onions finely sliced
5 mushrooms chopped
1/4 green pepper finely diced
dash of hot sauce
salt and pepper
dash Worchteshire sauce
2 silicone six muffin cup holders.( you can use the metal ones, but for this I like the silicon variety)


1 med potato grated
2T of low fat cottage cheese.

1. Grate potato ( or use frozen hash browns) Season with a bit of salt. Then squeeze water out of potatoes. The salt will help the potatoes release some of their water. In a bowl mix potatoes, cream cheese and some pepper. Once mixed place some in the bottom of each muffin cup. bake for about 15 min in a preheated 350 oven.

2. cook bacon until done to desired doneness. Drain Bacon on paper towels. Reserve 1tsp of bacon fat. In same fry pan saute zucchini, green pepper, mushrooms or whatever veggies you are using. Once sauteed I add the green onions. Set aside

3. beat egg whites until soft peaks form, add to the rest of the beaten eggs. salt and pepper to taste. Add hot sauce and worshtershire sauce.

4. On top of the cooked potato base layer cheese meat and veggies. Then pour egg mixture over top. bake between 15-20 min at 350.

Once cool and slip into Ziploc bags. Refrigerate or freeze. Then just heat in the microwave.

Enjoy!!


**Note Breakfast meat and cheese is very salty and the potatoes are salted so you may want to omit salt from the eggs.