Overnight Oats x 3

Overnight oats are perfect for mornings when I'm rushed. Which, to be honest, is pretty much every morning. I can give myself more than enough time to get ready and I still scramble the last ten minutes before I have to leave. On my leisurely days I make green smoothies - usually consisting of kale, orange, pear, raspberries and grapes. I definitely don't have that much time on an average morning, unfortunately. I usually have time in the evening to whip up some OO's. It seriously takes like 3 minutes.

I have read about people making OO's in empty (or nearly empty) jars. Nutella, peanut butter, it all works. So I have a few recipes here: one I made in a jam jar (grammas homemade raspberry jam), one in an empty nutella container that I swiped from Dan's parents house and one in a PB jar.

As an aside, is nutella not the most addicting "food" ever? I cannot buy it because I will sit up til 3am eating spoonfuls from the jar. Lately I've been staying at Dans parents because they live really close to where I go to school (saves me at least an hour of commuting). Aaannnd there is always a Costco size jar or two of nutella kicking around. My favorite is eggo waffles with nutella and peanut butter. Super healthy right? Not! And so not filling! I'm hungry within 45 minutes.

Anyways, back to delicious overnight oats.

PB Jar OO's 

Almost empty pb jar (or anyyyy nut/seed butter)

1/3 C oats (should use rolled oats but I always forget to buy them so I usually use quick oats)

1 C non dairy milk

1/2 t cinnamon

1 T ground flax seeds

1 t PB2 (or any kind of yummy nut butter)

Handful of raisins

Stevia to taste

Combine all ingredients in jar. Refrigerate for ~8 hrs. 

Jam Jar OO's (aka PB&J overnight oats)

Almost empty jam jar (I used rasp but anyyy kind will do)
1/3 C oats (rolled oats)
1 C non dairy milk
1/2 t cinnamon
1 T ground flax seeds
1 t PB2 (or any kind of yummy nut butter)
Handful of raisins
Stevia to taste

Put all ingredients into jar & refrigerate. Try to wait til morning to eat.

I usually take the oats out of the fridge as soon as I get outta bed so they can come to room temp before I leave for work.  In the summer I don't mind eating the oats cold but in the long rainy winters here I like to heat them up for at least 30 seconds.


Nutella Jar OO's
(serves 3)

Almost empty nutella jar

1.25 C oats (rolled oats)

1 C non dairy milk

1 C coffee (if you have hazelnut coffee that would be deeeelish)

2 T ground flax seeds

1 T PB2 (or any kind of yummy nut butter)

Stevia to taste

Put all ingredients in jar. Put in fridge for about 8 hours. 

I don't like to heat plastic in the microwave so I let the oats sit on the counter for at least 45 min before eating. This recipe should serve three. The total recipe has approx. 732 cals, that's 244/serving. There are also 9.8g of protein in each serving.