Easy Healthy and Delicious Overnight Muesli

Have you heard of Muesli? Are you looking for an easy grab and go breakfast? Here is an easy healthy and delicious overnight muesli recipe.

These days, I have been doing more meal prepping. It saves money to plan ahead. By meal prepping it helps me on my healthy journey. It is super helpful to have meals ready to grab and eat or grab and heat up.

Several years ago while vacationing in Switzerland, I had a cold breakfast cereal called Muesli. It was a cold cereal. The breakfast cereal contained oats, seeds, nuts, dried fruit and apples with milk. I found muesli to be filling and delicious. It gave me plenty of energy walking on vacation.

What is muesli?

It is a cold Swiss breakfast. The main ingredient is rolled oats. It is soaked overnight.

What is the difference between oats and muesli?

The main difference between the two is that muesli is ready to eat like cereal. Pour it into a bowl and add regular milk or almond milk to it. You can eat it like a regular bowl of cereal.

You usually cook the oats. Oats and muesli are made from whole grains. Muesli is made of oats and flakes like bran flakes. Oats are made from rolled seeds of oats grass.

Muesli has comparatively higher protein and nutrient due to the presence of additional ingredients. It tends to have more sugar with the added items such as dried fruit and fruit.

What is muesli refer to in America?

In America, some people consider Muesli and granola to be the same. It is not the same. Granola is made with similar ingredients as muesli with oats, nuts, seeds, and fruit. However, granola typically normally has more sugar and oil than muesli.

Easy Healthy and Delicious Overnight Muesli

It is a wonderful healthy and convenient breakfast that is made by soaking muesli with milk and yogurt overnight. This softens the oats and allows the other ingredients to blend together. In the morning, you have convenient option for a  delicious creamy breakfast. A convenient breakfast that you can make ahead of time, grab, and go with no morning preparation.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Servings 4 8 oz servings

Equipment

• 1 medium bowl
• 1 Measuring Spoon
• 1 measuring cup
• 1 spoon or spatula
• 4 8 oz jelly jars with lids and rims

Ingredients

  

• 1 1/2 cup Bob's Red Mill Old Country Muesli
• 1 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk or milk of choice
• 2/3 cup unsweetened yogurt (or one with less sugar) high in protein, less in sugar
• 2 tbp orange blossom raw honey or honey of choice or pure maple syrup
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 cup walnuts or almonds (chopped or slice) optional
• 1/2 cup mixed berries (strawberries slices and blueberries) raspberries or blackberries

Instructions

 

• In a medium mixing bowl, mix all ingredients together except for the berries.
• Divide muesli mixture between the four (4) jars.
• Add the berries and sliced strawberries to thetop of each jar of muesli.
• Cover with lid and refrigerate overnight.
• Store in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
• In the morning, grab a spoon and enjoy.

Notes

Other Suggestions or Tips:

You can customize your overnight muesli to your taste by adding a variety of fruits, nuts, seeds, and spices. Here are a few ideas:

• Fruits: apples, banana, berries, figs, grapes, or peaches
• Nuts and seeds: almonds, walnuts, pecans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, flax seeds
• Spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin spice, cardamom, pure vanilla extract

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Easy Healthy and Delicious Overnight Muesli

You can make your own muesli from scratch or purchase a bag of Bob’s Red Mill Old Country Style Muesli for the grocery store. It has 140 calories per ¼ cup with 0 grams of sodium; 5 grams of sugar and 23 grams of carbohydrates. It consists of whole wheat, Rye, Barley, whole grain oats, dates, raisins, sunflower seeds, almonds, flaxseed, and walnuts. This option is the easiest for me. There is less than 5 grams of sugar.

What do I love about overnight muesli?  It is a wonderful healthy and convenient breakfast by soaking muesli in milk and yogurt (optional) overnight. This softens the oats and allows the other ingredients to meld together. In the morning, you have convenient options for a  delicious creamy breakfast. A convenient breakfast that you can make ahead of time, grab, and go in the morning with no preparation.

I use orange blossom honey to sweeten my overnight muesli. You could also use pure maple syrup for another healthy alternative. Most of the sugar in this muesli is from fruit.

To get my protein intake up with each meal, I have also included yogurt into this recipe. I use FAGE Total with 0% milkfat. It has 18 grams of protein with 5 grams of sugar, 90 calories per 3/4 cup. Try to watch the sugar count in yogurts. A good Greek yogurt works great with this recipe too.

How to make the overnight muesli

You need one medium size bowl. It is super easy to make this recipe in less than 10 minutes.

Grab four (4) clean small glass jars with lids (8 ounces jelly jars for canning).

Ingredients

Serving size is for 4 jars (8 ounces each)

• • 1 – 1/2 cup of Bob’s Red Mill Old Country Muesli

• • 1 – 1/4 cup of unsweetened almond milk (or milk of choice)

• • 2/3 cup of unsweetened yogurt (Greek yogurt, one that is high in protein and low in sugar)

• • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

• • 2 tablespoons of orange blossom honey (honey flavor of choice or pure maple syrup)

• • 1/4 cup of walnuts or almonds (optional)

• • 1/2 cup of blueberries & slice strawberries

Mix Together In A Medium Bowl

In a medium mixing bowl, add all ingredients the ingredients except milk and berries.

Slowly pour in your almond milk or milk of choice.

Thoroughly mix the ingredients together. Your mixture will be slightly running. Remember it will thicken up within 3 hours.

Divide between four 8 oz jars.

Divide muesli mixture between the four (4) jars.

Top with berries or fruit of choice!

Add the berries and sliced strawberries to the top of each jar of muesli.

Refrigerate Overnight

Cover with lid and refrigerate overnight. Please Note: I will keep in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.

Other Suggestions or Tips

You can customize your overnight muesli to your taste by adding a variety of fruits, nuts, seeds, and spices. Here are a few ideas:

• • Fruits: apples, banana, berries, dried cranberries or cherries, figs, grapes, or peaches

• • Nuts and seeds: almonds, walnuts, pecans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, flax seeds

• • Spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin spice, cardamom, pure vanilla extract

• • Milk: whole, 2% milk, oat milk, soy milk, coconut milk or almond milk

Enjoy!

In the morning, grab, go, stir, and enjoy. You can place in a thermal lunch bag and head out to the office. I enjoy eating at my desk while reading blog posts of friends.

This recipe is super easy to make. It can be doubled or tripled for your family. Children love this easy recipe too and enjoy making it with their moms, dads or grandparent.

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Hope you give it a try! Wishing you a wonderful day, sweet friend.