Overnight Oats 🍌🥣

I was on a vegan cookbook kick for a while, amassing all sorts of reference material for the one week that I tried being completely vegan (you can’t eat out *at all* unless you know the chef). It wasn’t difficult as long as I didn’t try to substitute anything for cheese. People try to tell you (themselves, really) that cheese substitutes are a sufficient facsimile, and they’re just not. The only thing that comes reasonably close is Minimalist Baker’s Vegan Parm. I still use this instead of that jarred parm that isn’t even mostly cheese to begin with.

ANYHOOOOO, along the way somewhere, I started making these overnight oats for my weekly morning snack and I’ve been making it since that vegan trial week in May 2016.

Grab yourself a banana, peel, halve, sprinkle with cinnamon and smash.

This recipe (three servings) fits neatly in a 3-cup Glasslock container. Do yourself a favor and get a whole set.

Using my trusty Pampered Chef Measure-All, I slide it to the 1-cup mark and pour in the oats.

Then, I slide it to 1/4-cup and measure the chia seeds.

I get nervous Every. Single. Time. that I’m going to knock it over and chia seeds will be everywhere in the kitchen for 100 years. Those go in, and I flip the Measure-All over and pour in 1 1/2-cups of almond milk. I didn’t get a shot of this cuz… boring.

Mix it all together and put your snap-tight lid on and leave it in the fridge overnight. In the morning, you’ll need to give it a good stir.

Then, I top it with frozen blues from Costco. The ones that fall on the floor become dog treats, but you knew that already.

Then I pack as much as I can into a jar and continue on with the rest of my snacks.