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4 Healthy and Easy Overnight Oats Recipes + video

December 5, 2017 by Carmy 4 Comments

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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!!

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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

Overnight Oats Strawberries and Cream

overnight oats 4 ways strawberries and cream

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

2. Strawberry Lemon Cheesecakes Easy Overnight Oats

overnight oats 4 ways lemon strawberry cheesecake

overnight oats 4 ways lemon strawberry cheesecake

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

3. PB & J Easy Overnight Oats

overnight oats 4 ways PB&J

overnight oats 4 ways PB&J

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

4. Apple Pie Easy Overnight Oats

overnight oats 4 ways apple pie

overnight oats 4 ways apple pie

  • 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 mins
Total Time: 5 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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Authour: Carmy
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: Healthy, Meal Prep

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  1. GiGi Eats

    December 5, 2017 at 9:12 am

    WHOA BABY!! THESE look so bomb! I remember when my mom used to FORCE ME TO EAT Quaker Oats Oatmeal. Not terrible but so not as good as these!!! I wish we knew about overnight oats way back whennnn!!!!! I want apple pie! ;)

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  2. Abbey Sharp

    December 5, 2017 at 2:25 pm

    5 stars
    I need that PB & J recipe! I live off overnight oats! Thanks for the lovely collection

    Reply
  3. Michelle Hartgraves

    December 5, 2017 at 5:41 pm

    That strawberry and cream one looks like it would be my favorite!! I need to jump on the bandwagon and try overnight oats instead of just pinning the recipes, lol!

    Reply
  4. Paige

    December 17, 2017 at 5:22 pm

    I have been wondering how exactly to this!!! Thanks for sharing

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