Overnight Oats

Overnight oats are just oats soaked overnight that absorb the liquid you put them in – any kind of liquid you like! The most common mixture is equal parts raw rolled oats, milk and yogurt (I like 1/3 or 1/2 cup of each). You can use any kind of yogurt or milk. Put in the fridge overnight (uncoverd or covered, your choice) and let ‘em soak up the liquids.

That’s the base, and toppings are endless. Add the toppings the night before or the next morning – either way works. Just don’t put anything in you don’t mind getting soggy (i.e. crunchy cereals)

There is NO COOKING involved at all!

(Although you could heat them just a tiny bit in the microwave to take the chill out)

Some variations…

Strawberry Banana

Mixture:

• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1/2 cup Brown Cow Low-Fat Yogurt
• 1/4 cup hemp milk
• 1/4 cup skim milk
• Half a med. banana
• A handful (about 1/2 a cup) sliced strawberries
• 2/3 a serving of Trader Joe’s Antioxidant Trail Mix (or dried fruit and nuts of your choice)

Strawberry Banana Almond

• 1/3 cup dry rolled oats
• 1/3 cup chocolate granola from OhNuts.com (It got lost and I couldn’t taste it )
• 1/3 cup low-fat plain yogurt (plus a dollop more)
• 1/3 cup vanilla hemp milk (plus a splash more)
• Small handful sliced almonds
• 1/2 tbsp-ish of ground flax
• 2/3 cup-ish cup of strawberries
• Half a small banana, sliced

Pumpkin

Overnight Combo:

• 1/3 cup oats
• ~1/3 cup hemp milk
• 1/2 cup plain low-fat yogurt
• 1/4 cup pumpkin (all I had left)
• 1/2 a banana
• Sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice

Added In The Morning:

• 1 Weetabix biscuit , crumbled
• 1 tbsp ground flax
• Drizzle more hemp
• Drizzle maple syrup

FANtastic combo of flavors!

Wheatberries Galore

This combo included wheatberries = the most wonderful addition to yogurt I’ve ever had!!!! Chewy, chewy, chewy.

Mixture:

• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1/2 cup hemp milk
• 1/2 cup greek yogurt
• 1 tbsp flax
• 1/2 a serving of Nuts over Raspberries trail mix
• 1/2 a small banana
• 1 tbsp sprouted wheatberries

Chocolate Peanut Butter

I added about a tsp of Ghirardeli U nsweetened Cocoa powder to my muesli – along with a spoonful of PB stirred in. Decadence, health style.

Ingredients :

• 1/4 cup rolled oats
• 1/4 cup wheatberries (you could just do 1/2 cup oats instead)
• 1/2 cup skim milk
• 1/3 cup low-fat plain yogurt
• 1/2 a small banana
• 1 tbsp PB
• 1 tbsp ground flax
• 1 tsp cocoa powder
• 1/2 tbsp chopped walnuts

It was quite good! I don’t think I’ll have this all the time, but certainly for a change every now and then. And next time I will NOT be stirring in the PB – it totally got lost in there. What a waste of good PB flavor! Go easy on the unsweet cocoa. I added a little too much to the husband’s and it got a little bitter. He had to add brown sugar to balance it out.

Banana Crunch

There was no need to soak the muesli overnight because I just used chilled prepared oatmeal in this variation.

• 1/2 a serving of prepared steel cut oats (made with a bit of skim milk)
• 1/2 a cup of prepared wheatberries
• 3 strawberries
• 1/2 a very small banana
• 1/3 cup greek yogurt
• Splash vanilla hemp milk
• 1/2 a package of Funky Monkey Banana Chips ! (see below)

Lots of crunch and chew in this bowl!

Cereal + Berries

The mix:

• 1/3 cup oats
• 1/3 cup Stonyfield low-fat plain yogurt
• 1/3 cup vanilla soy milk
• 1/3 cup strawberries
• 2 tbsp wheatberries

And this morning I added:

• 1/2 a cup Uncle Sam’s (loved it!!!)
• The last of the Aztec Crunchy Corn
• 1 tbsp blueberry preserves

by Kath on May 9, 2008

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