4 Healthy and Easy Overnight Oats Recipes + video

Breakfast can be tricky – it’s a meal that’s easy to skip when you want an extra 10 minutes in bed. Enter these healthy and easy overnight oats to make your mornings easier!!

What Does “Overnight Oats” Even Mean?

If you’ve never heard of overnight oats before, let me give you a quick rundown. Overnight oats are a no-cook method of making oatmeal/the easiest meal prep you can ever do. Instead of cooking your oats, you rolled oats with the liquid of your choice and other flavour boosters, and leave it in the fridge overnight. Today I have for you four super easy overnight oats recipes!

The Easy Overnight Oats Formula: Oats + Liquids + Flavours = Delicious Mornings

So how does this whole overnight oats thing work? You start with some rolled oats then you pick your liquids such as milk, cashew milk, almond milk, yogurt, and etc. Then you add in your flavour boosters such as fruit, honey, chocolate, nut butters, and more! You can even add in nutrition boosters such as chia seeds, hemp hearts, flax seeds, and more,

The Tools to Meal Prep for Easy Healthy Overnight Oats

• Mason jars
• Long handle spoons
• Rolled Oats
• Mix-ins (ie fruit, liquid, sweetener, etc)

4 Healthy and Easy Overnight Oats Recipes You Need To Try

• The photos below are demonstrating how the overnight oats are being layered. For maximum flavour, I’d recommend mixing everything evenly together before refrigerating. This way you get a bite of everything in the mornings!
• Other than the 1/2 cup of milk and 1/2 cup of oats for the base, the rest of the ingredients, the amounts are more of a suggestion. If you want more PB, add more PB! If you want more fruit, add more fruit! You do you!
• Overnight oats should last up to 7 days in your fridge.
• There’s a video down below (or up above!) to show you just how simple it is to make these easy overnight oats!

Suggested Dietary Swaps

• Make it vegan: Use plant-based milk, plant-based yogurt, dairy-free chocolate chips.
• Make it gluten-free: Use gluten-free oats.

1. Strawberries and Cream Easy Overnight Oats

• old fashioned oats
• milk
• vanilla yogurt
• dark chocolate
• strawberries

2. Strawberry Lemon Cheesecakes Easy Overnight Oats

• old fashioned oats
• milk
• plain yogurt
• strawberry yogurt
• strawberries
• honey
• lemon zest

3. PB & J Easy Overnight Oats

• old fashioned oats
• milk
• peanut butter
• strawberry jam
• peanuts

4. Apple Pie Easy Overnight Oats

• old fashioned oats
• milk
• plain or vanilla yogurt
• apple
• ground cinnamon
• optional sweetener: apple sauce

Overnight Oats 4 Ways

Breakfast can be tricky – it’s a meal that’s easy to skip when you want an extra 10 minutes in bed. Enter these healthy and easy overnight oats to make your mornings easier!!

5 from 5 votes

Print Rate

Prep Time: 5 minutes mins

Total Time: 5 minutes mins

Servings: 4 jars

Ingredients

Easy Overnight Oats Strawberries and Cream

• 1/2 cup old fashioned oats
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/3 cup vanilla yogurt
• 2 squares dark chocolate chopped roughly
• 1 handful strawberries chopped

Easy Overnight Oats Strawberry Lemon Cheesecakes

• 1/2 cup old fashioned oats
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 cup plain yogurt
• 1/3 cup strawberry yogurt
• 1 handful strawberries chopped
• 1 tsp honey
• lemon zest

Easy Overnight Oats PB&J

• 1/2 cup old fashioned oats
• 1/2 cup milk
• peanut butter
• strawberry jam
• peanuts
• Note you might want to add more oats and milk to the PB&J one since PB&J don't take up a lot of room.

Easy Overnight Oats Apple Pie

• 1/2 cup old fashioned oats
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/3 cup plain or vanilla yogurt
• 1 small ambrosia apple diced
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• optional: apple sauce for sweetening

Instructions

• Mix your ingredients into a mason jar and then refrigerate overnight.

Notes

You might want to add more oats and milk to the PB&J one since PB&J don't take up a lot of room.

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Author: Carmy

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: Healthy, Meal Prep

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