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 Prep for Healthy Overnight Oats
- Mason jars
- Long handle spoons
- Rolled Oats
- Mix-ins (ie fruit, liquid, sweetener, etc)
4 Healthy and Easy Overnight Oats Recipes
*Note: 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!
*Note 2: 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!
*Note 3: Overnight oats should last up to 7 days in your fridge.
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.
Strawberries and Cream Easy Overnight Oats
Easy Overnight Oats Strawberries and Cream
Easy Overnight Oats Strawberries and Cream
Ingredients
- 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
Instructions
Place everything into your mason jar and refrigerate overnight.
Strawberry Lemon Cheesecakes Easy Overnight Oats
Easy Overnight Oats Strawberry Lemon Cheesecakes
Overnight Oats Strawberry Lemon Cheesecakes
Ingredients
- 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
Instructions
Mix everything together in a mason jar and refrigerate overnight.
PB & J Easy Overnight Oats
Easy Overnight Oats PB&J
Easy Overnight Oats PB&J
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/2 cup milk
- peanut butter
- strawberry jam
- peanuts
Instructions
Mix everything into your mason jar and refrigerate overnight.
Recipe Notes
Note you might want to add more oats and milk to this one since PB&J don't take up a lot of room.
Apple Pie Easy Overnight Oats
Easy Overnight Oats Apple Pie
Easy Overnight Oats Apple Pie
Ingredients
- 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 everything into a mason jar and then refrigerate overnight.
Check out this post if you’re looking for tips on how to meal prep. If you’re looking for more meal prep recipes, check out my meal preps here!
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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! 😉
I need that PB & J recipe! I live off overnight oats! Thanks for the lovely collection
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!
I have been wondering how exactly to this!!! Thanks for sharing