Breakfast / Overnight oats

I've never been one of those people who have a consistent breakfast routine. It seems pretty nice though, having found "your thing", may it be coffee and toast, sugary cereals, a smoothie or the classic; oatmeal. When I was 15, I wasn't eating breakfast in weekdays. Why? I don't know, I guess I was to tired before school and valued those extra minutes in bed more than eating. What I'm even more clueless about is why I one day decided to start eating breakfast, but it was a good choice. Ever since, I've been aimlessly wandering around among all those breakfast opportunities, liking most of them, but never found one to make my soul mate. 

Now would be the perfect time to say that I've finally found it, but that would be a lie. What I have found, is another breakfast item that will definitely have a steady place in my rotation from now on together with bread, smoothies, cereals, leftover dinner and all that jazz, and I must say I think they will get along just fine. While regular old oatmeal have definitely been on my breakfast table a lot of times, I'm not a big fan. 

I first heard about overnight oats this autumn, but didn't pay that much attention to it. I thought it sounded a bit weird, cold oatmeal? But earlier this week I decided to try, and I'm so happy I did! It's very different from regular oatmeal, and so much better. It's soft, yet crunchy somehow and doesn't feel as overwhelming as the warm oatmeal can do. I believe it to be a whole world out there with combinations that I will have to try, but right now, I'm very pleased with what I had this morning. 

Overnight oats with chocolate and banana

1/2 small ripe banana

1 tbs cocoa powder

50 ml rolled oats

100 ml soy milk

Mash the banana very well in a small bowl. Mix in the cocoa powder until no lumps remain and add the oats and half the soy milk and stir to combine. Add the rest of the soy milk and mix again. Cover and let sit in the refrigerator over night. Serve with some sliced banana.