The Super Smart Breakfast Sandwich Trick We Wish We’d Known About Sooner

With back-to-school  just around the corner, the leisurely summer morning breakfasts the kids have grown used to are now drastically numbered. But before parents suddenly find themselves back in a blur of meal preps, carpool lines and after-school activities, it's probably smart to do a bit of back-to-school prepping of their own. The perfect place to start? The easiest ever breakfast sandwich meal prep plan on the internet.

We recently stumbled upon this super smart breakfast sandwich trick by food and lifestyle creator Shannon Doherty that instantly left us feeling like we'd been missing out on one of the simplest meal prep hacks . The home cook and mother of 4 behind the popular Instagram account @athomewith.shannon recently shared her method online, and we're definitely trying this one at home.

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The Best Make-Ahead Breakfast Sandwich Method

We love a good make-ahead recipe, especially one that creates a little extra free time in the morning. For starters, this trick involves the usual suspects of breakfast sandwiches: eggs , sausage patties , American cheese and English muffins. You'll need an oven preheated to 350°, a sheet pan for baking the eggs, parchment paper , resealable plastic bags and a mixing bowl.

Start by whisking a carton of eggs inside of a large mixing bowl. Pour the egg mixture into a greased sheet pan and place it on the center rack of an oven. Bake until the eggs are firm, about 18 minutes. While the eggs cook, prepare the English muffins by slicing them in half and laying them out cut side up. Place 1 slice of American cheese and 1 frozen sausage patty onto 1 side of each English muffin.

Once the eggs are out of the oven and have had time to cool down, cut the batch into squares and place 1 egg square on top of each English muffin sandwich. Close the sandwiches up, wrap them individually with parchment paper and bag each one in a labeled resealable plastic bag. You can store them in the freezer until you're ready to eat, at which point just remove the sandwich from the bag and microwave it on high for about 2 minutes.

"I love making a batch of these on Sundays to pop in the freezer - so when we need them on busy back-to-school mornings, we are ready," Doherty writes in her post.

And she's absolutely correct. This make-ahead option is the perfect back-to-school breakfast plan for a family of any size. Even for us single adults who also have busy mornings 5 days a week, this is an absolute time-saver of a meal prep plan. They always say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and there's no reason why it can't also be the easiest thanks to this cool trick. 

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