Pumpkin's back

After the holiday's I almost forgot all about pumpkin, or maybe I just needed a break. Either way I'm ready to enjoy it in all kinds of ways once again.

I'm out of egg's so I made overnight oats so that I could get some protein from the yogurt and milk. I followed Kath's recipe for pumpkin overnight oats, she is the queen of overnight oats.

I topped it with pure maple syrup, dark chocolate chips, all natural pb, and low fat vanilla almond granola. Unfortunately this is the second time I have tried overnight oats and I'm just not a big fan. I think it's a texture thing, but I have given up trying to like it.

Overnight breakfast

Last night I put together the makings for overnight oats.

2/3 cup of low fat Organic Valley yogurt
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup thick oats
1 TB. oat bran
1 TB. apple cinnamon hot cereal
1/2 tsp. chia seeds
mix together and refrigerate overnight

Mix together in the morning. I warmed mine up for 1 min. to take the chill off and I don't like the idea of eating completely cold oats.
Topped with frozen blueberries, the last of the Crofter's apricot all fruit spread
(I used up what was in the jar, so it was a little more then normal), and fresh ground almond butter.

Topped with Tj's low fat mixed berry granola.

I'm planning on making several test batch's of granola today. I just got a lot of new ingredients and new baking sheets. I'll let you know how it goes.

What's your favorite go to Breakfast?

Overnight oats

Ingredients for overnight oats

I used 1/4 cup regular oats
2 TB. muesli
1/4 cup soy milk
1/4 cup plain non fat Greek yogurt
2 TB. Wallabys strawberry guava yogurt
mix together and refrigerate overnight

Tj's almond butter with flax seeds and some raspberry all fruit spread

Dark chocolate chips, Bob's apple strawberry granola, and Yogi's cherry granola

Trial and error

I made some overnight oats using Bob's extra thick rolled oats

I mixed 2 TB. each of pear and lemon Wallaby yogurt with 1/4 cup soymilk, 1/3 cup oats, and 1 tsp. chia seeds. I left it in the fridge overnight to soften up. When I took it out of the fridge this morning it was really thick. I added about 1/3 cup hot water to it and microwaved it for 45 sec. With the addition of all the water the oat mix grew bigger then I wanted and the texture wasn't very good. I think I will stick with smaller oats, overall it wasn't very good.

I didn't want to waste it so I added some toppings to make it better:
dried cherries
raspberry all fruit spread
all natural almond butter
Galaxy cranberry orange granola
Yogi walnut spice granola

I also enjoyed a cup of Mighty leaf green tea tropical

Lemon oats

Overnight oats ingredients

1/4 cup oats
2 TB. oat bran
1/4 cup soymilk
1/4 cup lemon yogurt
mix together and refrigerate overnight
in the morning microwave for 30 sec. to take the chill off
topped with
dried sour cherries
unsweetened coconut
dark chocolate chips
pear sauce

On the side I had some egg whites and a cup of Tazo vanilla apricot white tea.

This was the first time I've made overnight oats. I love the lemon flavor from the yogurt and the convenience in the morning. I would make these again and experiment with other flavors of yogurt.