My Favorite High-Protein, High-Fiber Meal

Our road trip to Northern California and Oregon is fast approaching. While I'm making a packing list for clothes, gear and food, I thought to share one of our healthy camping/backpacking meals. It can be breakfast or it can be lunch. What I love about it is:

• It's delicious.

• It's healthy and loaded with protein and fiber.

• I can make it in advance if I don't have much time to prepare a healthy breakfast for a day of hiking, biking or backpacking.

• If we're not hungry that early, I can pack it for the family and we can take bites throughout the morning. It helps us make it through the day on this one meal!

What I love so much about it is that it's loaded with protein for muscle building/reconstructing, fiber to keep us fuller longer and lots of delicious flavors!

Have you guessed what it is yet? It's not a bagel, cereal, or smoothie. It's a hot meal!

It's a Breakfast Burrito! 

Recipes? Na...Make Your Own!

There's really not a single recipe fits all for breakfast burritos. Our healthy, high-protein, high-fiber and low-carb version is:

• Dice and chop some vegetables. Our favorite vegetables are sweet potatoes, mushrooms, yellow onion, red bell peppers and spinach. 
• Satué sweet potatoes, yellow onions and red bell peppers (from the one that takes the longest to cook to the shortest). 
• Push the veggies to one side of the pan and scramble two eggs on the other (you may add some taco seasoning into the eggs for some additional flavors). 
• When the eggs are nearly done, add some spinach (and feta cheese, if you like, to taste). 
• Wrap everything in a gluten-free tortilla. 
• Depending on your diet, other ingredients to add are grated cheese, bacon and sliced sausages. 
• And for some additional taste and spice, you may top it up with some green chilies. Voila! Bon Appetit!

Not only do high-intensity outdoor activities burn a lot of calories, but being at altitude requires your body to burn more carbohydrates. The addition of sweet potatoes, which are higher in fiber and thus provide a slower-burning carbohydrate source than white potatoes, is great.

Looking for more reason to love breakfast burritos while camping or traveling? Okay, here you are:

• It's fast and doesn't take as much time!

• Less dishes to do! Because we all know that doing dishes while camping without a sink is no fun!

• It's a fun activity to do with family and friends. On the mornings of our camping trips, when we have time to make and enjoy a family breakfast, I invite my kids to make their breakfast burrito. They love to chop veggies, beat eggs and wrap their own burritos.

• And on days when we are short of time, we can make them in advance and warm them up in the morning.

This breakfast is one of our Girl Scout camping breakfasts. We make this on the last day of our camping using all the leftovers. No wonder I said there's no single recipe for breakfast burritos. Just use your leftovers and minimize waste.

This is going to be one of our key breakfasts for our upcoming road trips. What are some of your favorite camping meals?