Overnight Oats

By Tom and Shona Pickering

Our approach to cooking...

Our approach to cooking is based around taste, convenience and health. So typically, we try to make our meals quite fast and easy, without sacrificing on the healthy qualities that whole plant foods provide.

We tend to cook a lot of ‘one pot meals’, where in we throw everything in a big pot and cook it up with a dose of delicious herbs and spices for flavour. This way we often put about 6 portions of food together in around 15 minutes, which is great when you find yourself pressed for time.

Plant based cooking has really taught us how to be creative in the kitchen, but the best advice we could give is to go with the flow. We’re not professional chefs (in case it wasn’t obvious!) – far from it. Bu that’s the thing, you really don’t need to be in order to cook up delicious wholesome plant based goodness.

There might be times when you want to cook something but you only have half the ingredients available. No problem, just substitute with other ingredients. There might be times where you think you’ve got the measurements wrong, or overdone the spices. No problem, in time you’ll get the hang of it. In fact, we don’t ever measure portions or spices anymore, we’ve just learned how much flavour we need depending on the dish, and often it tastes different to the time before as a result of this, but it’s still always tasty!

I suppose what we’re trying to say is have fun with it. Use these recipes as a starting point then make them your own. These are all quite simple recipes really, but deep down that’s something that all of us seem to have forgotten. The whole foods the planet has provided for us generally provide everything we need.

With that said, it’s time to tuck in!

This is great if you have an early start and want to eat on the move – just prepare it the night before so you’re ready to go first thing.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup soya milk
  • ½ cup oats
  • 4 tablespoons plant based yoghurt
  • Blueberries
  • Apple
  • Banana
  • Nut and seed mix
  • Ground flaxseed
  • Almond butter - option

Instructions

  1. Add the oats, soya milk and yoghurt to a container (I use an old jam jar), then give it a nice mix and stick it in the fridge overnight.

  2. In the morning, simply top it with nuts, seeds, ground flax and blueberries, apple and banana (and almond butter if you desire), then enjoy. If you have a bigger container you could double the portion size if you wanted a few more calories.