These Strawberry Banana Overnight Oats are an easy make-ahead breakfast that’s both fruity and delicious.
Aren’t overnight oats the best? Please tell me you’re just as obsessed as I am. If you haven’t tried them, they’re basically oatmeal but cold, which is ideal during the summer months when it’s hot and the last thing you want is a hot breakfast. Truth be told, I’m normally an eggs-for-breakfast kind of gal, but recently I’ve been craving something different. If there’s one thing I know about me and food it’s that I crave variety. I know plenty of people who eats oats every day and are satisfied, but I’ve found that whipping up banana overnight oats once or twice a week is ideal.
WHY THESE BANANA OVERNIGHT OATS ARE THE BEST
- These oats take just five minutes to prepare. FIVE MINUTES! Few recipes take such little time to make.
- They combine the two best fruits–strawberries and banana–into one, healthy recipe
- They’re sweetened with honey, which also goes great with banana
OVERNIGHT OATS RECIPE
For this recipe, you’ll need just a handful of simple ingredients:
- old fashioned oats (rolled oats)
- milk of choice
- yogurt*
- honey
- banana
- strawberries
*I recommend using plain or strawberry-flavored yogurt. If you want to keep this recipe dairy free, simply use your favorite dairy free yogurt (personally, I love Forager).
HOW TO MAKE OVERNIGHT OATS
Overnight oats are REALLY easy to prepare, and like I said, they’ll only require five minutes of your time.
First, add oats to a bowl or mason jar then set them aside.
Next, whisk milk, yogurt and honey together until they’re well combined.
Then, pour the wet ingredients over top of the oats and use a spoon to stir them together.
Last, add chopped strawberries and banana to the bowl, then you’ll place the bowl in the refrigerator (or divide mixture into cups) and refrigerate the oats overnight.
Viola, that’s it! Strawberry banana is a classic flavor combination, whether it’s in smoothie or oats form, and adding yogurt to the oats will make them even creamier. These strawberry banana overnight oats are a quick, healthy grab-and-go breakfast, meaning they’re the perfect thing to enjoy at work or maybe even on your way to work?! The possibilities are endless.
OTHER OVERNIGHT OATS RECIPES:
Strawberry Banana Overnight Oats
These strawberry banana overnight oats are an easy make-ahead breakfast that's both healthy and delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1 1/2 cups milk of choice
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1/4 cup yogurt plain or strawberry-flavored
- 1/2 cup strawberries chopped
- 1 banana chopped
Instructions
- Place oats in a bowl and set aside.
- In a separate bowl, whisk milk, honey and yogurt together.
- Pour wet ingredients over oats and stir to combine.
- Last, stir in the strawberries and bananas.
- Place bowl in the refrigerator overnight. Alternatively, you can distribute the mixture into cups or a mason jar.
- Enjoy!
Haha, you’re so right! I’m done with winter, I really am and I live in Finland… so with a luck we’re still having snow in May! Our trees are mushroom lookalikes too 😀
What is the calorie count etc.
This was so delicious never thought to try this but it’s good thanks for this great idea..
Erin!
I was inspired to try some overnight oats from your post, but I didn’t feel like going to the store, so I used what I had and kind of made up my own recipe. I wanted to share because it’s so yummy!
2/3 cup oats
2/3 cup skim milk
1 tablespoon grape jelly
1 tablespoon peanutbutter
and then I had some raspberries, so I threw those in there last night and some fresh ones on top this morning
(as you can see, I scrounged up whatever I could find that might go together and threw it in a mason jar haha!)
This was so good! Thanks for the inspiration!
Abby! Thank you for the comment. I’m all about improvising to avoid going to the grocery store aha I’m glad yours turned out well 🙂
I loveeee that giraffe shirt. Overnight oats are seriously my favorite breakfast. #addicted but also I love yogurt so that’s probably why.
This is random but your shirt/ top is really cute. And this is the second day in a row I see mason jars on blogs which means I really need to get some now 😉 .
The first – and only so far – time I tried overnight oats was years ago and I wasn’t a fan. Something about the cold oats just didn’t do it for me. Yogurt – plain soy or Greek mixed with coconut flour – is a yay for me and taking a clue from Amanda I’ve been adding some on top of my hot oat bran every now and then. It’s pretty good.
ahhh pure bliss! Slumber party with overnight oats, sound good?!
I used to eat overnights oat back in the day… haven’t for a while. Oatmeal doesn’t fill me up. BUT… I have been snacking on oat-protein ball things as my pre-breakfast snack.
LOVE YOGURT. I’m on such a greek yogurt kick.
I WISH I COULD EAT STRAWBERRIES AND BANANAS – back when I could, I hated oatmeal with fruit chunks in it, but now, I feel like I would LOVEEEEE IT!
I love the hand-hold pic!!! You know I love my yogurt. Glad you finally came around 😉
Overnight oats are my breakfast staple right now, I cannot get enough of them! Love that you put them in a jar too!
Thank you! I’m with you–I can’t get enough!
I’m back to loving overnight oats now that it is summer. Strawberry banana sounds like the perfect flavor combo!
Glad you’re back on the yogurt wagon to start loving thicker overnight oats! I love that giraffe shirt and you holding your portable mason jar- so cute! I need to try overnight oats, but I tend to want them room temp or hot 🙂
Mhmm looks great! I’m not the biggest yogurt fan unless it’s mixed in with fruit and topped by granola. Then=yum.
LOVE the giraffe shirt by the way!
I went on an overnight oats kick for about a week last year when I first discovered it and I really liked it! But then I forgot about it for a year. I’m think I need to bring it back now, because this look delicious!
I love all kinds of yogurt. One of my absolute fave flavors is the cafe latte greek yogurt (by oikos I think). So good!
Ohhh I will have to try that flavor!
I love, love, love overnight oats! They’re so easy to put together and serve as a perfect, healthy breakfast in the morning. Looking forward to trying your version!
I put Greek yogurt in everything, but I never eat it alone. First time I tried overnight oats was probably about a year ago, and it was so soupy and gross that I couldn’t eat it! That’s one of the main reasons that I’m public enemy #1 of the health living community 😉
Hhaha ahh I hate them mushy too! Maybe use way less milk next time?
3 Things: Love the photos, love your shirt and love overnight oats! Cant wait to give this a try!
Obsessed with yogurt… like literally don’t know what I would eat if I couldn’t have it. I could easily go through a 500g tub every day, but I try to ration myself a little better and make it last longer 😆 It’s seriously one of my fave things to eat, though, especially when oats, fruit, cereals, and nut butter are involved 😀
Hhaa well I can only hope to be on your level some day.
This looks super yummy! But I don’t have oatmeal right now 🙁
Oh the pictures make it look so nice and neat. My jar will look like a drunk individual prepared it. 😛
I have had overnight oats several times. I have never incorporated anything other than oats and milk, but I would love to try the yogurt and honey!
Noticed I spilled some of the milk….. we can both be drunk individuals 🙂