Overnight Oatmeal – 8 Ways!

Oatmeal is one of my favourite breakfasts but sometimes I feel like it’s too much of a hassle or I’m in too much of a rush to even cook instant oatmeal not too mention the healthier old fashioned rolled oats or steel cut oats which take so much longer! One way to get around this is to make overnight slow cooker oatmeal but an even easier way is this overnight oatmeal where you simply mix all of the ingredients and let them sit in your fridge overnight and they are ready to eat in the morning! This recipe starts with old fashioned rolled oats which is mixed with milk and yogurt before being sealed or covered and left to sit in the fridge overnight and by the morning the oats will have soaked in all of the milk leaving you with some nice and creamy oatmeal! That’s really all there is to the base recipe and from there there are tons of options!

Some options: You could use instant oatmeal. You can use your favourite milk including whole milk, skim milk, almond milk, cashew milk, coconut milk, etc. You could use a flavoured yogurt. You can add a sweetener of choice! You can add other healthy ingredients like chia seeds, flax seeds, nuts, nut butter, etc. Of course you can (and in my opinion should) add flavour! Most ingredients can be mixed in the night before but for some things like fresh fruits or berries or crunchy ingredients like nuts I sometimes like to add in the morning so that they are their freshest or crunchiest. (To keep things easy I sometimes add those ingredients the night before anyways.) The skye is the only limit to the different flavour combinations that you can come up with for this overnight oatmeal! Below you will find 8 great ways to enjoy this overnight oatmeal!

Please share your favourite flavour combos for oatmeal!

This overnight oatmeal is so quick, easy and convenient! You just need to spend a few minutes the night before mixing everything up and placing it in the fridge! In the morning you can grab it and go enjoying it chilled or after throwing it in the microwave for a few minutes to warm it up! I like to make a bunch of them on Sunday night and then I have quick ready to go breakfasts for the whole week!