Overnight Oats – Basic Prep

Prep Time

5 minutes

Cooking Time

n/a

Yields

5 Servings

Ingredients

BASE-

  • 2 1/2 cup rolled, old fashioned oats.
  • 5 Tablespoon raisins or goji berries
  • 5 teaspoon flax seeds
  • 5 teaspoon hemp seeds
  • 15 walnuts, chopped
  • 5 Tablespoon shredded coconut (optional)
  • 5 teaspoons ground cinnamon.
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg (optional)
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger (optional)

NIGHT BEFORE – (per serving)

  • 1 cup milk of choice (you may want to add more milk in the morning) per jar (so 5 cups altogether)
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, per jar (so 2 1/2 teaspoons altogether)
  • optional – 1 teaspoon date syrup, maple syrup or honey or 1 mashed banana, per jar (so 5 bananas or 5 teaspoons sweetener)

IN THE MORNING – (per serving)

  • optional – 1/4 cup diced fruit (apples, pears in the winter / blueberries, strawberries, mangoes in the summer) per jar, so 1 1/4 cup altogether.
  • optional – almonds or other nuts, granola

Directions

PREP

  1. Mix all of BASE ingredients together and put into 5 jars.
  2. Seal and put in cupboard until ready to add milk.

NIGHT BEFORE

  1. Take out however many servings you will want for the next day.
  2. Add milk, vanilla and sweetener (maple, honey or banana) and mix in.
  3. Seal and put into fridge overnight.

MORNING OF EATING

  1. Add any of the fruit options you choose.
  2. Add more milk if needed.

Notes

  • My personal favorite is to add the mashed banana the night before – you won’t need any additional sweetener
  • This is great to have ready so that the night before you just grab a jar, add the milk and you and the oats can chill overnight.
  • You could also put this in your “Keep Warm” toaster oven, covered, for an hour in the morning and it will be perfect temp on cooler mornings.
  • If you want to have cooked oatmeal, you could wait until the morning to add milk and vanilla, then put in a pot and cook it until thickened, about 15 minutes.