If you need some make ahead filling healthy breakfast options, the banana overnight oats with the chubby hubby flavor are a great option.
If you’ve been around here long you know I am all about the overnight oats.
Whether it’s healthy apple pie overnight oats.
Or peanut butter overnight oats.
I’m really like… give me all the jars, people, and get out muh way come breakfast time.
Banana Overnight Oats With A “Chubby Hubby” Flavor
In my family bananas are a fruit favorite. They don’t last long around my children, but if I have any left over after snack time, I combine them with stomach-filling oats and have a dynamite “brekky”.
Why do you soak the oats overnight?
When you soak oats overnight, it’s almost like you‘re cooking them, but the process is much longer and slower. This way the oats don’t sustain damage from heat.
During the soaking, starches break down and natural phytic acid is reduced. This enables your body to use the nutrients from the oats more efficiently.
Substitutions that’ll work
You can change up this recipe by substituting almond or cashew butter for the peanut butter. You could also use almond extract rather than vanilla.
Rather than almond milk, you could substitute other types of milk depending on your taste and preference.
Changing out the nuts from peanuts to any variety of other nuts would also give it a diverse flavor but still maintain a nice “crunch“.
How to make overnight oats with water
If you don’t like or have milk on hand, you can soak them overnight in water. The taste may be more bland but will still work.
Usually it is recommended that you eat your overnight oats either with milk, or a milk substitute, such as almond, soy, coconut, hazelnut, or rice. However, water remains an alternative solution.
Ingredients
- 1 (pint size) jar with lid
- ½ cup old fashioned rolled oats
- ½ cup almond milk (or milk of your choice)
- ⅛ teaspoon mineral salt
- 1 to 2 teaspoons monkfruit sweetener (or sweetener of your choice)
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 small ripe banana, mashed
- 1 tablespoon natural peanut butter
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Coarsely chopped peanuts (or nuts of your choice)
Directions
- Mix all ingredients together in jar and seal tightly.
- Place in the refrigerator overnight.
- Eat cold or remove the lid and microwave for about 1 minute to eat warm.
Other Overnight Oat Recipes You’ll Love
Here are a few others we’ve got up our sleeve that you’ll love as well.
Banana Overnight Oats
Ingredients
- 1 pint Size jar with lid
- 1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats
- 1/2 cup almond milk (or milk of your choice)
- 1/8 tsp mineral salt
- 1-2 tsp monkfruit sweetener (or sweetener of your choice)
- 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 small ripe banana mashed
- 1 tbsp natural peanut butter
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Coarsely chopped nuts (or nuts of your choice)
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together in jar and seal tightly.
- Place in the refrigerator overnight.
- Eat cold or remove the lid and microwave for about 1 minute to eat warm.
