I love frozen burritos!! Between those and chocolate pop-tarts, my diet is toast!
My love for frozen burritos dates all the way back to college. I ate them for almost every meal. I have continued to make them a weekly staple in my diet, especially for lunch. But those burritos are 7 Weight Watchers points EACH! That's 2/3 of my daily point goal, if I eat two for lunch. Not really worth it. But, I crave them! So, I decided to work on making my own.
Here is a picture of the frozen burrito and the one I created. The yummier looking one is actually the one I created (on the bottom). In my first batch I used fat free refried beans and 93% lean ground beef, because we always eat the beef and bean frozen burritos. They worked out to have more points than I wanted. So, I came up with this recipe:
10 Mama Lupe High Fiber 75 calorie wheat tortilla shells (used wheat instead of white)
2 cans fat free refried beans
1 can black beans
In a pan I combined all of the beans and heated through. I put a couple of tablespoons of the mixture on the tortilla shell and rolled it up. (Wow, this is hard, huh??) Then I put them in a 9x13 baking dish and stuck them in the freezer. Once they were frozen completely through I transferred them to a freezer bag.
When I want one (or two!!) I simply do what I always did with my frozen burritos. I put them on a plate, microwave them for 2 minutes, poke them with a fork, microwave for another minute, add a tablespoon of fat free sour cream and all the salsa I want to each burrito, and Voila!
It seriously takes about 15 minutes to fix 10 burritos, and only takes 3 minutes to heat them up for a quick, yummy, filling, fulfilling lunch!
And the comparisons??? The store-bought frozen waffles typically cost about 30 cents each and are 7 Weight Watchers points each. My homemade version (which is so much healthier) costs about 43 cents each and is 2.75 Weight Watchers points. I can eat two for less than the points of one of the frozen variety.
Is this one worth the work??? You bet!!!
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Love this!! I am going to try this, it sounds so good and not so fatty.
ReplyDeleteI love making homemade burritos. I also will make my own refried beans from leftover beans - usually pinto, but sometimes kidney beans. It's a good way to control the sodium content.
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