I never liked oats in my life... not until I found this recently...

Overnight, No-Cook Refrigerator Oatmeal

 



















(picture extracted from TheYummylife.com)

Had been having breakfast in office from the canteen for a while, after I got tired of having bread with spreads... and later, canteen food started getting really bad, either the bee hoon was super salty, or the bee tai mat would be super oily, mee siam and mee rebus that gets you satisfied for that moment and then after the sugar spike, you get a slump down. And with our ever increasing waistline, there was this one day which I told myself..."OK, that is it. I am changing our meals for good!" 

That is when I started researching for breakfast and healthy dinner ideas that I can make everyday. And saw this overnight, no cook refrigerator oatmeal. It left me in questioning the recipe at first... oats are like squishy, slimy and they taste terrible to me... and I have never liked it in my whole life... and not cooking it... doesn't it taste even worse?? However, after reading the article on theyummylife.com and the amazing photos convinced me that it couldn't be so bad... So I went ahead to try it... I tried the banana cocoa oats: 























Ohhh..... this is heavenly!!! I added more milk to it and warmed it up in the microwave in the morning... and it was excellent! Hubby finished the bowl too!

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup uncooked old fashioned rolled oats
• 1/3 cup skim milk (I used ricemilk)
• 1/4 cup low-fat Greek yogurt (I used yoplait french vanilla yoghurt)
• 1-1/2 teaspoons dried chia seeds
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon honey, optional (or substitute any preferred sweetener)Used brown sugar
• 1/4 cup diced ripe banana, or enough to fill jar (approx. half of a small banana)

Directions

In a half pint (1 cup) jar, add oats, milk, yogurt, chia seeds, cocoa powder and honey. Put lid on jar and shake until well combined. Remove lid, add bananas and stir until mixed throughout. Return lid to jar and refrigerate overnight or up to 2 days. Eat chilled.

Nutritional Info: 245 calories, 5g fat, 56g carbs, 10g fiber, 13g protein; Weight Watchers PtsPlus: 8 

 

So I went ahead to make this again... in a different recipe...

 

Banana Peanut Butter Refrigerator Oatmeal

 

Yes, bananas again... because I always seems to have some overripe bananas at home which is perfect for these recipes!

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup uncooked old fashioned rolled oats
• 1/3 cup skim milk
• 1/4 cup low-fat Greek yogurt
• 1-1/2 teaspoons dried chia seeds
• 1 tablespoon peanut butter (may substitute PB2 powdered peanut butter)
• 1 teaspoon honey, optional (or substitute any preferred sweetener)
• 1/4 cup diced ripe banana, or enough to fill jar (approx. half of a small banana)

Directions

In a half pint (1 cup) jar, add oats, milk, yogurt, chia seeds, peanut butter (or PB2), and honey. Put lid on jar and shake until well combined. Remove lid, add bananas and stir until mixed throughout. Return lid to jar and refrigerate overnight or up to 2 days. Eat chilled.

Nutritional Info (using PB2 and no honey or sweetener): 264 calories, 5g fat, 55g carbs, 8g fiber, 15g protein; Weight Watchers PtsPlus: 8 

 

And this, caught my heart again. Pretty sure I will be trying all the varieties on the site soon... and perhaps I will develop my own flavours too? Anyway, I had been doing many many other types of healthy breakfast... and I hope to go on for..ever? Next one, I will try: 

Raspberry Vanilla Refrigerator Oatmeal

 

 Look How YUMMMMMMM This looks!