Super Simple Chocolate Overnight Oats Recipe

Anyone who knows me well knows that french fries are my main food group. I simply can’t help it, the golden crunch lures me in every time. Despite this, I do make occasional attempts at living a healthy lifestyle and it was during one of these attempts that I stumbled across the idea of overnight oats. I’d heard some other bloggers talking about it but the idea always seemed kind of gross to me until I actually tried it myself.

I started using this recipe during my exam period when it was very important for me to have a filling (yet not bloating - aka no Maccas breakfasts), healthy and simple breakfast. Though I thought I wouldn’t like it, the chocolate variation seemed the most appealing. Over time I have developed my own recipe from research I did on the internet.

I know that my recipe has sugar in it, I’m not claiming that this is the most healthy recipe in existence - nor is it even close, but I’m not that obsessed with health goods that I can’t handle a small bit of sugar. That being said, if you don’t want to use the brown sugar that I do, you could always use agave syrup or another natural sweetener of your choice in its place.

The same can be said with the milk and the yoghurt, though I use the dairy variations most of the time, in the pictured version I had used coconut yoghurt and the recipe works just as well with almond or soy milk. This is the kind of thing you can really adapt to your own lifestyle and tastes, just have a play around with it, but here are the ratios I use.

Ingredients:

• ½ a cup of Oats
• ½ tablespoon Chia Seeds
• 1 tablespoon of Cocoa Powder (I tend to do a mixture of cocao powder and cocoa powder but it works perfectly with just cocoa powder on its own)
• 6 tablespoons of Milk
• 2 tablespoons of Vanilla Yoghurt
• 1 tablespoon of Brown Sugar
• Strawberries and Banana to serve

Method:

1. Mix all of the ingredients (bar the fruit) in a container that has an air-tight lid and leave overnight.
2. Cut up fruit and present it on top of the oats - then mix it all in because who cares about how it looks.
3. Enjoy!

See how ridiculously simple that is? It makes mornings so much easier when your breakfast is readily prepared for you and organising it the night before is super simple as well.

Please let me know how you go if you try the recipe, especially if you add your own variations. I would love to hear what you think.

Lots of Love,

Shannon