Do you ever have a week where you feel like the entire week
you’re playing catch up?
That’s how it has been for me this entire week. Catching up on sleep, a sizable to do
list and other things that need to be accomplished.
I order to get everything done this week I’ve been trying to
make things easier on myself by planning ahead of time for most of my
meals. When we got home from
California on Sunday I made my snacks for work, an entire week’s worth so I can
just grab and go in the morning.
I’ve also been making sure to have a good, filling meal for
breakfast each morning. Since my
Sunflower butter container was almost empty I tried a new breakfast I read
about on Kath Eats, overnight oats. I
put ½ a container of plain Chobani Greek yogurt, 1 tbsp chia seeds, 1/3 cup
rolled oats (uncooked), and 1/3 cup almond milk into my sunflower butter (it is
just like peanut butter) container and stirred it up before putting it in the
fridge overnight. The next morning
breakfast was ready for me and I dug right on in.
Verdict: I
probably should’ve put more milk in because the consistency of mine was a
little too thick for my taste. I
would also use a flavored Chobani, the only reason I did not is because the
only ones I have left are lemon and pineapple and both sound disgusting with
sunflower butter. Next time I’ll
probably use strawberry banana or honey.
I didn’t mind the addition of the chia seeds, they don’t really taste
like much, but they contain a lot of good things for your body such as
omega-3s. I calculated the amount
of calories for the version I made which was roughly 320, which is pretty close
to a perfect morning serving for me.
Also, this breakfast meal is FILLING, a key for me because I eat a
roughly 6:25am and don’t eat anything again until 10:30am (when I get my break
at work). I was actually full
enough that I considered waiting to eat my mid-morning snack until later in the
day.
I would definitely make this again, but I also found many
other recipes for overnight oats that I would like to try:
- Overnight Oats with Cookie Butter
- Overnight Oats with Berries
- Coconut Cookie Dough Oatmeal (Want to try this as overnight oats)
- Overnight Oats with Berries, Granola, and Peanut Butter
Hope your week has been better than mine! I’m looking
forward for a girl’s night tonight and giving the girls their gifts from Italy!
P.s. Can you tell I've been using my camera recently? The quality of the pictures isn't that great.
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