Vegan Overnight Oat Parfait, it has been too long!
On Wednesday night, I went to make a batch of vegan overnight oats before bed and I realized that I was out of almond milk. It was almost midnight and I was so desperate I considered making almond milk from scratch and then Eric convinced me to stop being a crazed lunatic and go to bed.
Sometimes husbands know best.
Thursday morning, I awoke happy and then my heart sank when I realized I did not have any oats waiting for me.
However, the almond milk is now back baby! All is right in the world again.
Cherry-Blueberry Chocolate Vegan Overnight Oat Parfait
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup oats
- 1 cup almond milk
- 1.5 tbsp vega Chocolate Protein Powder (yum!!!)
- 1.5 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/3 cup cherries, chopped & pitted
- 1/4 cup blueberries
- cacao nibs, for garnish
- Banana soft serve
Directions: The night before (or 1-2 hours before you want to eat) in a small bowl mix the oats, milk, protein powder, chia seeds, cherries, and blueberries in a bowl. Whisk well to get out clumps. In the morning, remove from fridge and layer in a glass with Banana soft serve (1 frozen banana processed until soft serve forms). Add toppings and enjoy!
This
was
amazing.
I have a ton of amazing health links for you to help pass the time before the long weekend! ;) Enjoy!
Health News Round Up:
- 5 Healthy reasons (and recipes) to love mangoes – Fit Sugar
- New Green Monster recipes are up! – Green Monster Movement
- Are you a pen and paper person? Check out these Eco friendly notepads and planners – LobotoME
- What’s Fresh: How to cook 20 vegetables simply! – Huffington Post
- Celebrate your natural beauty – Faces Of Beauty
- Habits of healthy people: Turn the TV off – Daily Spark
- 5 Habits that are sabotaging your sleep – Thatsfit.ca
- A recipe I want to try: Vegan Green Monster Muffins – The Chic Life
- Turkish bean and herb salad – NY Times
- Boosting immunity after intense exercise- early research – Huffington Post
- 7-year old rides 600 miles for charity – Thats Fit.com
- Training for a marathon? Be sure to listen to what your body is telling you – National Post
- 10 foods to pack for a healthy picnic (or lunch!) – Fit Sugar
- Survey says: More people consult the internet instead of docs – Vitamin G
- Stressed out? Try graphotherapy for relaxation – Fit Sugar
- Help the students: Making student friendly recipes – Zesty Cook
- Check out this free Smart School Time Recipes cookbook! – One Frugal Foodie
Spotted:
- Carrot Cake Scuffins – Women’s Day
- Apple Cupcakes – Vitamin G
- Pumpkin Pie Banana Chunk Oatmeal Cookies – Girl with the pink sneakers
- In A Jiffy Curry Chickpea burgers – Rawtumn
- Fig and Walnut Vegan Overnight Oats – Sweet Salty Spicy
- Vegan Overnight Oat Parfait – Get Natured
- Salt & Vinegar Roasted Chickpeas – Tea Time With Lin
- Gingersnap vegan Overnight Oats – Yo Soy
- Vegan Overnight oats- Kristy Runs
- Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Vegan Overnight Oats – Reshape Your Life
- In A Jiffy Curry Chickpea Burgers – Yum Ventures
- Frosty No Bake Glo Cakes – Spa Bettie
- Carrot Cake Scuffins – Healthy Me
- Nut Butter Crusted Fries – Girl Meets Health
- Roasted Balsamic Green Beans – Vegeneration
- Nut Butter Crusted fries – Making Good Choices
Well, it is Friday and I am determined to get caught up by the long weekend.
One, two, three…break! Happy Friday :)
What kind of jar is that? I love that you eat VOO from a jar. Makes it more fun!
It was a jam jar (President’s choice blueberry organic I believe!!)
O.M.G. that looks incredible. I think you should package and sell these. I wish that was possible! Thanks for linking to me, have a wonderful weekend!
Cool looking oats…. I love how messy they are :) Thanks for the shout out on the Help The Students Event.
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Thanks for the link love!
Those oats look amazing!!!!!!!!! :)
Have a great weekend sweetie!
OMG I totally have done that at midnight – been so sad about the lack of almond milk that I end up wanting to make some and my husband tells me I am crazy. I keep unsweetened hemp milk for baking and sometimes break that out in an almond milk emergency. Because hemp milk is more expensive than almond milk, I don’t like to use it on a daily basis – plus I mainly use it for baking because it adds more body than almond milk – but in a VOO emergency, out comes the hemp milk (and the vanilla extract to cover up the hemp flavor LOL). I don’t bake often so the case of 4 hempmilks I order from Amazon takes a while to go through – I think I have two of those right now. Incidentally I tried to keep an emergency quart of almond milk, but I invariably end up using it.
thanks for the tip I will have to use hemp milk in baking!
Hemp milk rocks for baking. I got the tip from Karina over at Gluten-Free Goddess.
I keep meaning to mention this in a comment – I finally bought Teflex sheets for the dehydrator, and I am so glad I did – they work like a charm. :)
Haha…sometimes I get it into my head that I want to take on a crazy kitchen project late at night…my husband usually has to put his foot down too :-)
Your breakfast photos are always so beautiful!
How do your VOO always look so freaking amazing?! Makes me want to invest in some gorgeous vases!!
psssst this time it was a jam jar! ;)
Wow, so many amazing links, Angela! Thanks for putting that list together. The bean and herb salad from NYT looks particularly awesome.
Angela that parfait looks glorious in that little jar!
I love all of the articles you posted — thanks for rounding them up for us!
I love how the oats spill over the top of the jar.
Btw, How to you eat out of that jar? It looks quite narrow to be using a spoon.
I’ve written a grocery list, and I’m going to bake a couple of your sweet treats this weekend!
I forgot about the narrowness and i switched to my long spoon from crate & barrel :)
You seriously have the coolest jars. I’d probably just plop it all in a bowl and go.
almond milk from scratch is soooo easy! If I can do it in my $19.99 blender, you can totally do it in the Vita :)
I hate when I run out of my favorite things, especially for breakfast.
you are so funny… I can totally see you, all wide eyed, standing in your kitchen thinking YES! let’s make almond milk!! :)
(That’s something I would do… ) ;)
looks delicious… I haven’t made VOO for a while…
dont forget the evil cackle
I think I would have a panic attack if I didn’t have my almond milk!
It is not a pretty picture when one of my staples runs out. I have certain things I love and look forward to too.
Funny that you mention having no almond milk – I realized last night that I also wouldn’t have any for my chia breakfast pudding this AM. : ( Sometimes I ask the husband to do an almond milk run for me. That’s what husbands are (partially) for, right? : ) Beautiful photos of VOO! Have a great weekend!
Happy Friday! And thanks for all the interesting reading material.
It looks amazing!
Oh!!! My blog is on there!! Yay! Thank you!
I’m such a huge fan of overnight oats. I’m nearly out of almond milk and I always get SO sad when I forget to get more. My boyfriend gave up trying to talk me when I get crazy like that, it’s definitely not pretty.
If I knew how to make almond milk I would probably attempt it. But I can’t keep almonds in the house the boy always eats them all!
I love the jar too! Have a fabulous long weekend! :)
Running out of almond milk is a huge fear of mine. I actually hoard it in my pantry for rainy days and buy it even when I have plenty. Thank goodness it stores well!
I buy it in bulk by the case of 12 :)
Yum! I love that jar! And yes, an almond milk void is NOT something I ever want to encounter. ;)
I hardly ever eat overnight oats anymore but yours definitely makes me miss them!
I desperately wanna make my breakfast look like yours! Your parfaits always look so delicious! This is one reason I hate having to eat breakfast at work, because I miss out on making something like this :(
I think parfaits will have to become my special weekend treat!! Good thing today’s Friday :)
best.jar.ever. i am in love :)
thanks for linking back to Faces of Beauty girl!
That looks yummy but I still haven’t tried overnight oats. The idea of cold oats is so weird to me!
I used to think it sounded like the grossest thing in the world!
That parfait looks amazingly delicious!!! Almost too cute to eat! lol
You always make breakfast so, so fun! Love the links. :)
oh i love your health round up posts! they’re so informative!
ps. I’m SO trying your above recipe. Once I receive my order of Chia Seeds, at least. :)
I totally would have gone to the store for my almond milk. Luckily we have a store which is open really late right down the street, so I would have been all over that (or the husband would have gone on an emergency run for me.) I would have FREAKED!!!
Breakfast looks amazing as always!
Have a great weekend :)
I still need to try voo parfaits! Looks sooo good! :)
Thanks for the shout out, Angela!
Ha, I love the bit about you wanting to make almond milk before bed and Eric telling your crazy self to go to bed!
Love the Overnight Oats! I’ll be making a batch this weekend!
Am I the only nut-bag that cringes every time I see parfait dripping down the side. I know it’s supposed to look overflowing and indulgent, but I just want to go get some papertowels! I might need therapy….
hahaha I get this comment quite a bit, you aren’t alone.
I was feeling the same way about missing my oatmeal last night and decided I was going to make hot oatmeal(because it’s comforting in the rainy weather) in a Pb & J parfait! It definitely hit the spot and was absolutely amazing! :)
I know what you mean… once you get into a breakfast you really like, you don’t want anything else!
That parfait looks so yummy! That’s definitely something I’ll be making when I’m at school and need a boost!
My friend Keri made your nut butter crusted fries and loved them! She blogged about it here: http://keribop.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/like-wine-fries-can-cure-anything/
Happy long weekend to you too!! :D :D
Hip, hip HURRAH for three days off in. a. row.
You are the only blogger who has ever made me feel tempted to eat oats–yours always look so good!
And Amen to that husband thing. I only have a boyfriend and he is already really smart, so I can’t imagine how wise he will become if we ever get married!
The happiest of mornings can be saddend when there are no oats:( I didnt have any bananas last night so i subbed apple sauce, still good but not the same:( Must buy bananas and more steel cut oats!!!
Have a great weekend:)
these look great as usual :) Happy Friday Ang! enjoy the long weekend ahead wahoooo
Hi Angela! Thank you for the health round up, I just love it! Have a great weekend. Your parfait looks far too perfect to eat! :) I hate when we run out of almond milk!
You have the most aesthetic breakfasts hands down! YUM!
when i tried out these parfaits for the first time i was totally blown away. i made a banana blackberry carob one for my mom a few breakfasts ago and she couldnt stop telling me “i cant believe this is healthy!!” we’re gonna make them next summer when we have a backyard party. i think theyll be perfect as an afternoon treat <3
xoxo
I had a parfait for breakfast too this morning! You’ve got me totally hooked. Today I made the banana soft serve with cocoa powder and almond butter mixed in… mmmm it was fantastic. Yours looks so pretty! I need to get some cuter drinking glasses or something, mine are ugly and my parfaits always look so boring, haha.
i missed your wedding anniversary post the other day – was traveling for work – and just wnated to say happy anniversary! you were a STUNNING bride and you are so beautiful today too, inside and out! i really hope i can grow to have your confidence and self esteem because it is so beautiful :)
yummy bfast! those apple cupcakes looked great too!
This looks like a layered ice cream sundae here :)
Yummmm! Your overnight oats parfait looks like something out of a magazine!
I hate it when I want to make something, only to find out I don’t have a certain ingredient! But I guess it makes it more special when you finally get that ingredient to make it! :D