Overnight Oats with Goat Cheese + Figs

Oats, oats, and overnight oats

It’s hard to escape the edict that we should be eating oats for breakfast. They’re full of lots of great nutritional things, they’re filling, they can be make-ahead. Overnight Oats are the ticket to planning ahead. The Old Fashioned variety (not instant) are also chock-full of resistant starch, as a bonus.

But I won’t lie: Adjusting to eating them has been a learning curve for me. It’s really become all about what’s served alongside the oats.

Salad for breakfast

Salad for breakfast suggestions have also been on the rise. And I get it. On a hot summer day, when I don’t want to be weighed down, or when there’s a bit of last night’s fabulous salad in the refrigerator, a salad might work for breakfast.

So, if we’re to give up toast and head over to either salad for breakfast or oats . . . I guess my choice would be oats. They do have a very sexy nutritional profile, their fiber, their protein, their B vitamins, magnesium, zinc . . . you get it.

But again, I find I kind of have to psych myself into coming up with new flavor combinations in order to get excited about oats.

A bit of planning for Overnight Oats

Overnight oats don’t take a lot of planning. Remembering to make them is the hardest part. But once you’re into the swing of that, prep is only a few minutes. And if you’re really smart and ambitious, you’ll make a few days worth of overnight oats so you only need to think about breakfast once or twice a week.

As for baked oats, with egg and/or almond milk, etc. . . . I’ve worked hard at liking baked oats. Quite hard. And I’ve given up.

It’s something about the egg mixed in with the oats and baked, but not enough to make them cookie or bar-like. They taste to me more like raw dough. With oats stirred in. And they’re gloppy. I give up.

Goat cheese and figs forever

This makes me want to work even harder at Overnight Oats.

As I said, it’s all about the other ingredients to me. And two of my favorite flavors are goat cheese and figs. They certainly work on pizza, hors d’oeuvres of all sorts, pasta, etc. So, I gave them a try here. It works for me.

Remember this

Even if you’re not used to goat cheese for breakfast . . . just remember one thing. Not that many years ago, no one really wanted or ate salad for breakfast. And look at us now. So go on, give this a try. You’ll love it!

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