Fig & Strawberry yogurt overnight oats

A gut-loving healthy grab-and-go breakfast.

If you crave tummy filling, comforting carbs in the mornings, you can’t go past these fig and strawberry yogurt overnight oat jars. They’re gut-loving, seriously delicious, and so easy to make. Overnight oats are a great way to save you time in the mornings and ensure you have a nutritious breakfast even when you’re on the run or busy!

It’s well known that oats are one of the healthiest breakfast options around. They’re a great source of fibre, trace minerals and even plant-based protein. They’re also a slow-releasing carbohydrate, that will keep your blood sugar in check, maintain your energy and keep you full for longer. Oats are also a prebiotic - food for bacteria in the gut. That’s why, it’s always a good idea to enjoy your oats with serving of homemade probiotic yogurt. Oats are a probiotic booster!

If you’ve never had overnight oats before, they’re basically a no-cook method of making porridge. Instead of cooking oats with liquid on the stovetop to become soft, you soak them. The soaking process allows the oats to absorb liquid and soften. The next morning, you have a pudding-like, cold porridge that is perfect for easy, grab-and-go breakfasts. Adding homemade yogurt and fruity mix-ins to the soaking liquid makes overnight oat jars taste, oh so delicious.

The amount of liquid is key to the final consistency. You can switch up the liquid ingredients to suit your dietary preferences. Homemade almond milk, oat milk or coconut milk are delicious plant-based milk alternatives. Additionally, any type of homemade yogurt, dairy or plant-based can be used. You’ll just luv how homemade yogurt makes overnight oats extra thick and creamy and extra pudding-like. Oats and chia seeds sponge liquid up – so, if you have runny yogurt left in your jar or too much whey in the fridge, add these in place of milk and get even more probiotics in the jar!

The process for making overnight oats is really one of the simplest meal-preps you can do. If you don’t have fresh figs – feel free to use additional strawberries. For breaky-prep in advance, you can easily double the ingredients and have enough jars to last all week.

You might also like to try these blueberry, buckwheat and yogurt breakfast jars.

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