Dates Overnight Cold Oats

Overnight oatmeal with dates in a jar for a hearty, healthy, make ahead breakfast. How cool is that ?. Dates and overnight oats will make your mornings a breeze. This is the right start for a great day.

It is tasty, fresh, colorful and healthy. This jar contains fruits, dates, chia seeds and oats, just throw a handful of ingredients in a jar at night and eat it in the morning.

Dates contain several vitamins and minerals, in addition to fiber and antioxidants. However, they are high in calories since they are a dried fruit. Also dates are high in fiber.

Oats are rich in carbs and fiber, and also they are very high in many vitamins and minerals.

Chia seeds: These little seeds are packed with fibers, omega3 and can soak up to 5 times their size in liquids.

Ingredients

 ▢ 1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats.

 ▢ 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract.

▢ 2 teaspoons chia seeds.

▢ 1 Tablespoon creamy nut butter

▢ 2 teaspoon honey

▢ 1/2 cup milk

▢ 1/2 cup dates with fruit of your choice.

Instructions

– In medium  jar or in a bowl add first 5 ingredients with 2 Tablespoons of milk and mix well to combine.

– Pour in the rest of the milk and stir.

– Top with fruit of your choice

– Place lid on jar and refrigerate overnight

– Serve chilled with more honey if you would like to.

Lara Khouli