Recipe: Peaches & Cream overnight oats

An odd way to start a new blog when I’m not a recipe blogger, but here we are!

This is my current favourite overnight oats recipe. It took a long time for me to even consider putting overnight oats in my mouth (cold porridge? No thanks) but once I did I never looked back. (Just kidding, freshly made hot porridge is superior but this is a recipe for convenience - think parenthood/postpartum which is my vibe here, or like, an early shift at the hospital but you still need breakfast).

I’m a lactation professional, not a food blogger, so here is the recipe

I don’t usually set out all my ingredients in little bowls but I did it for the Blog.

Ingredients (Makes 2 serves)

• 1 cup rolled oats (approx. 100g)

• 1 cup peach slices with a bit of juice (from a tin, but can use fresh if it’s the season for you)

• 2 tbsp vanilla flavoured protein powder (depends on brand but approx. 35g)

• 1 tbsp hemp seeds

• 1 tbsp chia seeds

• 1 cup soy milk (or milk of choice)

• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

• 70g yoghurt of choice to serve

My protein powder is unfortunately green. But it is made out of pumpkin seeds and tastes fine so…

Method

1. Put all dry ingredients (oats, protein powder, hemp seeds, chia seeds) in a sealable container (I use a 900mL glass container from IKEA).

2. Stir to combine well.

3. Blend peach slices into a puree.

4. Mix pureed peaches into dry ingredients.

5. Add soy milk and vanilla and mix all of it together very well.

6. Seal container and leave in the fridge overnight for the oats and chia seeds to absorb liquid.

7. Eat the next day with yoghurt on top.

I usually like to make four serves, can easily keep in the fridge for that long (four days).

It was a fight to not just drink the peach puree.

Tastes much better than it looks. It’s because my protein powder is green I swear.

Tried to take the final photo in natural light for the aesthetic

I ate this standing up at the bench while my toddler yanked on my pants. All I had to do was get it out of the fridge. In fact, I don’t usually even put it in a bowl - I eat half of it one day then the other half the next straight out of the container. Less preparation, less washing, more time for toddler.

Nutritional information

This will depend on what brands and types of milk/protein powder you choose to use but this is what I’ve used. I am not affiliated with any of the brands I might mention.

Uncle Toby’s rolled oats

So Good Soy milk (regular)

‘Keep it Cleaner’ plant based protein powder vanilla flavour

Vitasoy Greek Style yoghurt ‘hint of vanilla’

Chia and hemp seeds are chia and hemp seeds

I used npc.foodstandards.gov.au to generate this nutrition information panel