7 Healthy Overnight Breakfast Ideas
We all know how important breakfast is, but not everyone can wake up early in the morning and prepare themselves an Instagram worthy looking breakfast. In fact, sometimes when we wake up early enough, we still get late for our work or school! So, to make your morning a breeze, here are 7 breakfast ideas that not only can you make the night before, it also allows you to sleep in for an extra 15 minutes. For all of these, you don’t need a blender, a microwave, an oven, or a stove, all you need is a fridge and 5 to 10 minutes of your time the night before!
1. Overnight Oats
Overnight oat is one of the easiest breakfast to make that will take you less than 5 minutes to do. Just add raw rolled oats into a jar or any container, fill it up with water or milk, and add whatever fillings you want. If you want you could shake up the container to mix up the ingredients. When you’re done with it, just leave it in the fridge, and come morning, your delicious and healthy overnights oats are done cooking, waiting for you to enjoy.
2. Overnight Chia Seed Pudding
Similar to the overnight oats, all you need is to add the amount of chia seed you want into a jar or a container, and then add water or milk, and then add in your desired flavour, it could be fruits or flavouring, such as cocoa powder, and then leave it in the fridge overnight. When you get it out from the fridge in the morning, you’ll notice that the pudding had thickened up and increased in volume. This is because chia seed will absorb the liquid it is soaked in and expand on its own, it is a normal sight and nothing to be afraid of.
3. Energy Oat Balls
They might sound fancy, but this healthy food is fairly simple to make. All you need is to add raw rolled oats into a bowl, together with one or several binding ingredients and your desired fillings, and combine the mixture together. When the mixture formed is of a sticky texture, leave it in the fridge for some time to chill. After the mixture is done chilling, you can form them into little balls, and then chill them in the refrigerator for an hour to overnight. When morning comes, you have these adorable energy oat balls for your breakfast!
Binding ingredients are paste-like ingredients that help stick the dry ingredients together, such as:
room temperature peanut butter (so that they are not hardened)
fruit jam
mashed banana
honey
maple syrup
pitted dates paste (mash pitted dates using a fork until it forms a paste)
fig paste (mash figs using a fork until it forms a paste)
chia egg (soak chia seed into water until it thickens into a paste)
4. Open Toasts
All you need is some bread and a spread of your choice, with some fillings for this recipe. Leave the open toast in the fridge overnight, or you can even make this in the morning as it will take even lesser than 5 minutes. In the morning you can just grab the toast and eat it just like that! You can create many kinds of looks on your open toasts, and it is so easy that you don’t even need a recipe for this. Below are some pictures to inspire you if you’re planning to have this for tomorrow’s breakfast!
5. Fruit Salad
Who says fruits are just for dessert? In fact, studies have shown that the best time to consume fruits is either in the morning as breakfast or before any meal, rather than after it. All you need to do is to use your desired fruits, toss them in a bowl, and optionally you can add some toppings and dressings to make it taste more unique. Leave the fruit salad overnight so that the fruits can absorb the dressings, and in the morning if you have a sugar craving, you don’t even need chocolate bars or cookies, because the fruit salad is impossible to resist!
6. Vegetable Salad
Vegetables are perhaps the least desirable choice of them all in this list, but if you a veggie lover (which should be rare), this is something you should definitely try. Or if you hate veggie, you could try just once, maybe it might change your preference on vegetables forever! Just like fruit salad, toss suitable salad vegetables in a bowl, and here’s a trick: add fruits. Salad veg and fruits taste amazing together. You could add dressing if you want, but it is not even necessary because fruitswould be enough to make the salad delicious! So all you need to do is to add your ingredients to a bowl, toss them until they are well mixed, and leave it in the fridge overnight, and come morning your delicious vegetable salad is waiting for you to enjoy!
7. Overnight Yogurt Parfait
This might be the recipe that takes a long time because unlike the other recipes, you need to assemble the layers in the Parfait in order to make it more Instagram-worthy, and if the ingredients are all tossed together, it would not taste as good. But, the ingredients couldn’t be any simpler. All you need is yogurt, preferably plain unflavoured yogurt, sliced fruits of your choice, and some toppings. Get a jar or a container, and assemble a layer of fruit, and a layer of yogurt, then repeat the process until you reach the top, and finished it up with your toppings. Leave your parfait overnight, and in the morning you’ve got a desirable looking breakfast ready for you.
Here are the 7 breakfast ideas that will save you tons of time in the morning. Aside from being simple and easy to make, they are also inexpensive, very healthy, and the recipes are very versatile!
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