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Easy Breakfast Burritos

Claire Wright

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Serves: 4

Ingredients:

4 (wholemeal) tortilla wraps

4 eggs

a few handfuls of quick-to-cook veg (great ones here include: fresh baby spinach, thinly sliced peppers or onions, chopped tomatoes, frozen sweetcorn or peas, tinned and drained beans like black beans, sliced mushrooms, etc)

optional extras: salsa, guacamole or mashed avocado, hot sauce (for any adults who love a bit of spice), cooked meat (chopped sausages, chicken or pork all work well in these), grated cheese

Veg Portions / Serving: 1

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Start your day with a yummy, easy breakfast in colour with these breakfast burritos – perfect for fuelling the kids for school.

Method:

Cook any raw veg you want to cook through first: wilt the spinach if you like, fry the peppers, mushrooms or onions, follow packet instructions on frozen veg, etc. All of these will cook in minutes, and most are fine to just add without cooking if you are happy with them that way!
 
Scramble the eggs by heating a frying pan over medium heat with a tablespoon of oil or butter until it starts to sizzling. Beat the eggs, adding a little salt & pepper if you like, then pour into the hot pan and use a spatula or wooden spoon to move them around a little until they are almost completely cooked through (about 30 secs-1 min). Take off the heat and stir for another few seconds as it continues to cook. Divide between the 4 wraps and top with the veg and any optional extras you are using (maybe give everyone a wrap with eggs and veg and put the extras on the table for them to each create their own). Fold or roll and eat straightaway.
Engaging Kids

Engaging Kids

Kids who engage regularly with veg through veg-themed activities, such as arts and crafts, sensory experiences, growing and cooking are shown to be more likely to eat the veg they engage with. Encouraging kids to engage and play with veg is the handy first step to them developing a good relationship with veg and life-long healthy eating.

Kids in the kitchen

Kids in the kitchen

The eventual aim, if possible, is to get kids in the kitchen. Don’t worry, this doesn’t have to mean they are with you from start-to-end creating mess and rising stress levels! It can be as simple as giving them one small job (stirring, measuring, pouring, grating, chopping…) ideally involving veg. They can come in to do their little bit, and have fun with you for a few minutes. Getting them involved, making it playful and praising them plenty for their involvement, perhaps even serving it as dinner they “made”, makes it much more likely they will eat the food offered, not to mention teaching them important life skills. Find ideas, safety tips, videos and even a free chart in our Kids in the Kitchen section here.

Activities

Activities

While getting kids to interact with veggies for real and using their senses to explore them is best, encouraging hands off activities like arts & crafts, puzzles & games or at-home science experiments can be a great start, particularly for those who are fussier eaters or struggle with anything too sensory. Use these veg-themed activities as a stepping stone to interacting with the veg themselves. We have loads of crafty downloads here, puzzles here, and quirky science with veg here.

Sensory

Sensory

Once you feel your child is ready to engage a little more, you can show them how to explore the veg you have on hand with their senses, coming up with playful silly descriptions of how a veg smells, feels, looks, sounds and perhaps even tastes. Find ideas, videos and some simple sensory education session ideas to get you started here.

Serving

Serving

The moments before food is offered can be a perfect opportunity for engagement that can help make it more likely a child will eat it! Giving children a sense of ownership in the meal can make a big difference to their feelings going into it and the pride they take in it. You know your child best, but if you aren’t sure where to start, we have some fun and simple ideas for easy roles you can give them in the serving process over here.

Claire Wright

Editor: After leaving Exeter University with a degree in English Literature, Claire worked in various fields ranging from youth work and charities to publishing, before starting up a food-focused website when her first child was born. After being asked to project manage the publication of Veg Power's Crowdfunder book, Claire came on board as a fully-fledged team member in 2018 to take on the role of Communications Manager, then Editor, looking after Veg Power's website, content, recipes and social media platforms.

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