Overnight Oats 🥄

This is an instruction guide on how to make overnight oats! Overnight oats are a great way to start your morning if you are running late to school/work or as a nice evening snack. They can be very delicious and the best part is coming up with your own concoction of ONO (overnight oats).

a jar of overnight oats with strawberries and blueberries

What you’ll need:

  1. A jar – I recommend using a jar you already have around the house. If you have spaghetti sauce in a jar and would like to use that jar or any other jar with a pungent smell, I suggest leaving the jar overnight filled with water and soap. (Please do not go out and buy a jar for this! Screw the capitalist pigs who are trying to sell you something you may already have! Also make sure the jar has a lid.)
  2. Oats – Any oats will do. I like to go to Winco where I can refill my reusable bag without having to buy oats that are packaged.
  3. Milk – For healthier results, do the almond milk. If you have not converted to almond milk or just don’t like it, then fine use regular cow milk. Or experiment with soy milk or cashew milk. Cow milk is for cow babies!
  4. Berries, fruits – Typically I like to use bananas, strawberries, and blueberries. But don’t cross the picket line and please support striking farmworkers. #BoycottDriscolls
  5. A little flavor – You may be accustomed to sweetening your foods or adding a little something. Just the ingredients above may not satisfy your needs. Adding honey or vanilla extract is a sweet way to add that extra needed ingredient.

How it’s done:

  1. Smash a banana onto a plate with a fork. Really smash it down as much as you can and then put the banana goo onto the base of the jar.
  2. Add as many oats as you would like. In a standard jar, I would fill about less than half of the jar with oats.
  3. Add milk. My rule of thumb is to add almond milk until is is just at or above the halfway point of the jar. It should look like there is slightly more milk than oats. Oats soak up the milk so you do not want it to be too liquidy nor too dry.
  4. Next, this is where I like to add honey and mix up the soon to be ONO.
  5. I then chop up some berries and add them on top of whatever is already inside. (Sometimes when banana is my base, I still add banana slices! Americans tend to be potassium deficient so why not?)
  6. Seal the jar and set it in your refrigerator. The ONO should be ready in the morning! Add a little more honey if you would like!