Budget & Freezer-Friendly Easy Bacon, Egg & Cheese Breakfast Sandwich

Wrapped in foil and heated in the oven, this tasty sandwich includes sliced cheddar cheese, baked egg, and tender pieces of bacon enveloped in a soft English muffin. A yummy way to start the day!

Prepping meals for a camping trip this summer? Or simply trying to stock up your freezer for some easy to-go breakfasts? This simple breakfast sandwich made with English muffins, pre-cooked bacon, cheddar cheese and oven-baked eggs makes a lot in a little time, and is budget friendly too! I’ve also included real cost for this recipe, down below.

I really started meal prepping when I began to go on hunts with my husband about 10ish years ago. I was used to camping with my family where we just brought all of the ingredients we needed and cooked while we were out there. But once I started going on hunting trips I realized that we didn’t have time to spend on cooking meals when we left camp before the sun came up and came back long after dark. Especially since we still wanted to eat well like we do at home, rather than buy all pre-made and packaged meals. Those get expensive when eating them everyday straight for 7 days and they tend to be harsh on our stomachs since there are always added ingredients used to help preserve the food that we aren’t used to eating regularly. Our meals needed to be prepared before hand and ready to be heated up easily.

Once I figured that out I began to learn how to prep the food we love to eat and make it camping friendly. I also learned a thing or two (or ten) from my mother and father-in-law who are seasoned professionals in the art of meal prepping for the outdoors. Over the years I have collected and curated a list of meals that fall into many categories: freezer meal friendly, large batch cooking, foil wrapped dinners, etc. They serve us well and get used yearly.

Since beginning this journey I have transferred this prepping into my everyday life for the home. I especially like to prep easy breakfasts to have ready in the freezer. There are so many situations where they come in handy! Whether we take them as we’re running out the door, when my husband wakes up earlier than usual for work and still needs a filling breakfast to take with him on the road, or to have ready for when we get home from a trip and don’t have any food in the refrigerator, but we have breakfast in the freezer!

I go in waves with how often I freezer meal prep. Sometimes I’m really dedicated and I plan for 20 meals all at once and do all of the math to show how much each meal costs. Just to show myself that it IS worth it to have home cooked meals ready in the freezer, for the taste and especially for the cost! But more often times than not I go months without prepping and use up everything we have plus an extra bit of time of not having anything ready in the freezer before I buck up and do it all over again. I used to have more gusto in me, and more time (before having small children) for prepping. Now I have had to learn how to adjust it to my life with little ones. I can’t usually make as much in one sitting like I used to and don’t end up dedicating the same amount of time to keep up with it. Even if you can only find small amounts of time to incorporate some freezer meal prepping, or do half of the recipe, it still counts for something and every little bit matters!

With all of that being said, I do find that prepping meals for the freezer is extremely worthwhile. Although it may be a lot of work, it’s always worth it in the end. A tactic I’ve really taken to since becoming a mother is the method of ‘one for now, one for later’. This means that when you make dinner for the night, you double the recipe and freeze the other for later use. Since you are dedicating the same amount of time to dinner for one meal, you might as well make another and have a second meal out of it! This seems to really help with mental overload and also just allows me to have a small stockpile for those ‘just in case’ days that always seem to happen more frequently than we think.

These bacon egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches are as easy as they get. With store bought English muffins, pre-sliced cheese, and pre-cooked bacon, the only thing you have to cook are the eggs! And I’ve also simplified that step too. You use a 9×13 casserole dish which bakes 12 eggs at a time that you’re able to evenly cut after baking. No fancy tools required! Ready for assembly you put the cheese, bacon, and egg in the muffin and wrap up in foil. Voila! You have a breakfast sandwich ready. And if your family is anything like mine, there’s usually two or three sandwiches that don’t make it to the freezer and end up back in the oven to get heated and then eaten!

I also wanted to share what it cost me to make these sandwiches. I find this is helpful for those who need a visual and to know what it actually costs in real time. Yes, food has become increasingly expensive over the past 5 years. It’s even more so important now than before to get the most bang for your buck at the grocery store. The ingredients I used for these sandwiches this time are not organic. Of course, you can easily swap what you feel is most important to you in regards to your ingredients when you make these. I shopped at my local Costco which I have found to be the most cost-effective in my area. They have the best prices AND everything in bulk, which is perfect for large batch meal prepping. I also used cheese I bought on sale from Walmart in a previous order. I did not include the cost of aluminum foil or parchment paper as these are just a pantry staple of mine and difficult to calculate.

Cost of Sandwiches:

As of July 2025-Ingredients for 24 sandwiches:

Pack of Pre-Cooked Bacon $15.49

White large eggs 2 dozen $7.50

English Muffins (24 pieces) $10.98

Sliced Sharp Cheddar Cheese (24 pieces) $3.94

Total cost: $37.91 divided by 24 sandwiches equals $1.58 per sandwich

$1.58 per sandwich!? A McDonald’s McMuffin right now is going between $5-$7. Looking for other comparables: a Jimmy Dean Delights 4 pack of English muffin, egg white, cheese, and Canadian bacon is $2.13 per sandwich, while a Jimmy Dean 8 pack of English muffin, sausage, egg and cheese is $1.43 per sandwich. So it falls in between the two, and is cheaper than going out. To eat these for a breakfast as a family of four costs $6.32 total! To me that’s worth it. Not to mention the ingredient difference of having control over what you are feeding your family. I’ve been doing this for so long that I don’t need any convincing that this works for my family and its why I continue to prep like this!

I hope you enjoy these sandwiches like we do and look forward to hearing how they turned out for you too! If you tried and loved this recipe, please rate it 5 stars and leave us a comment! We’d love to hear from you. Best, Ana.

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FAQs

What alterations can I make to this meal?

There are so many variations you can experiment with! Here are some alterations I have thought of below:

Egg Whites: switching out eggs for egg whites will allow for a lower calorie meal without losing the protein.

Veggies: if you are interested in adding a little fiber, you can add different chopped veggies to your eggs like mushrooms, spinach, bell peppers, etc.

Meat: in place of bacon, you can use sausage patties, turkey bacon, Canadian bacon, deli ham, or any other you can think of that you’d prefer.