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Peanut Butter Overnight Oats

Published: Jan 2, 2021 · Modified: Mar 10, 2023 by Ginny · This post may contain affiliate links.

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These Peanut Butter Overnight Oats are now one of my favorite make-ahead style breakfasts. It’s super simple – just mix it up before going to bed, pop it in the fridge, and in the morning just open it and eat!

Mason jar with Peanut Butter Overnight Oats, topped with chocolate chips on a wooden counter.
Peanut Butter Overnight Oats – Perfect with Chocolate Chips!
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1 👩‍🍳 Why This Recipe Works
2 🥛 Ingredients
3 🥄 Instructions
4 📌 Expert Tips
5 Peanut Butter Overnight Oats

These Peanut Powder oats have the perfect consistency for this recipe. They did not disappoint on the easy-to-make or flavor fronts either. Between the protein found in the powder and the greek yogurt, you can rest assured that you will remain full for a good part of the day.

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👩‍🍳 Why This Recipe Works

Beyond Easy: You only need five minutes and a handful of ingredients to make this.

Flavorful: The combination of oats, peanut butter powder, cinnamon, and honey is drool-worthy.

Customizable: You can always mix in extra ingredients to change the flavor too. So, you can enjoy some variety with your breakfast.

🥛 Ingredients

Not only does this taste incredible, but it is also simple to make. There isn’t a long list of ingredients you need either so that you can throw them together in minutes. Here are some of the main ingredients you will need:

overnight oats in a jar with peanut powder in the bag behind it.
Jif Peanut Powder for Extra Protein

Jif Peanut Powder: You can find this powder in the same aisle as the regular peanut butter. If your grocery store doesn’t have it there, look in the organic section as they sometimes hide it there. Other brands work perfectly well as a substitution.

What is Peanut Powder: This powder is simply roasted peanuts that are pressed to push out all excess oil. Then its is ground up into a powder. Because the oil is pressed out, the fat content is reduced. Two tablespoons of peanut butter runs about 190 calories. This powdered version will be 45 calories. Don’t worry, the taste is still fantastic, so you didn’t sacrifice flavor for that reduction.

Old Fashioned Oats: The oats will be the bulk of the ingredients and will keep you filled up and satisfied. Be sure to use old fashioned instead of minute oats.

Vanilla Greek Yogurt & Milk: You need to have some kind of liquid for the oats to absorb and become softer. Using yogurt and milk together gives a fantastic texture.

Chia Seeds: There are so many reasons to add chia seeds. They are packed with fiber, protein, calcium, magnesium, and zinc!

🥄 Instructions

Three process shots showing layering the overnight oats with greek yogurt, honey and chocolate chips.
Easy Five Minutes For Preparation

Step One: Pour the first five ingredients into a mason jar (or lidded container of your choice). Add in milk and stir well until the peanut powder is well incorporated into the mixture and all of the ingredients are well combined.

Step Two: Pour in honey and vanilla greek yogurt and mix with the oat mixture.

Step Three: Top with a layer of mini chocolate chips. Cover with a lid and refrigerate overnight.

Step Four: And in the morning, you’ll have this:

jar of overnight nights the next morning where the oats have absorbed all of the liquids.
The Next Morning, the Breakfast is Done!

📌 Expert Tips

  • This recipe provides a creamy overnight oats with a great consistency, and just a hint of sweetness. Adjust the sweetness.
  • If you wanted to make things even easier, mix together a couple of these jars a few days ahead of time just using the fist five ingredients since they’re all dry and shelf-stable. The night before, just mix in the milk, yogurt, honey and chocolate chips!

🍫 Substitutions/Suggestions

  • Swap in vanilla yogurt for the vanilla greek yogurt.
  • Leave the yogurt out altogether – if you do this, it won’t have as creamy of consistency and I suggest adding a bit more honey for sweetness.
  • Leave out the chocolate chips if you’d like, since they’re just a topping. But having the chocolate chips makes it almost dessert-like, so my vote is for keeping them in!
  • If you decide to leave out the yogurt, you’ll have more room in your jar – adding in a few banana slices is a great idea!
  • Use other peanut butter powders in place of the Jif brand.

Recipe FAQs

Are overnight oats healthy?

There is a variety of answers when it comes to how healthy overnight oats are. They are loaded with fiber from the oats, but some of the ingredients you add-in may not be healthy.

This particular recipe is loaded with healthy ingredients, but other recipes are filled with candy and other sugary ingredients. So, keep in mind what you are adding to them that you pick healthy items.

Do you eat overnight oats hot or cold?

The fantastic thing about overnight oats is that they can be eaten cold, straight out of the fridge. It’s a wonderful breakfast!

Additionally, you can warm them up. Simply place them in the microwave for 30 seconds or so until they are warmed up.

How far in advance can you make overnight oats?

They actually last in the fridge for 4-5 days! This is ideal for meal planning and will save you loads of time throughout the week.

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Peanut Butter Overnight Oats

Quick and easy with just a few ingredients can set your week off with a breeze! Easily can be doubled or tripled. {WW 7 Purple, 9 Blue, 9 Green, Vegetarian, Gluten Free}
5 from 2 votes
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Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes minutes
Servings: 2 servings
Calories: 276kcal
Author: Ginny

Ingredients

  • ½ cup Old Fashioned Oats
  • 1 tbsp Chia Seeds
  • ¼ cup Jif Peanut Powder
  • Dash Cinnamon
  • Dash Salt
  • ½ cup Milk
  • ½ tsp Honey
  • ½ cup Vanilla Greek Yogurt
  • 1 tbsp mini chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Pour the first five ingredients into a mason jar or lidded container of your choice. These are all dry ingredients, so I make a week's worth at a time.
  • Add in milk and stir until the peanut powder is incorporated into mixture and all ingredients are well combined. 
  • Pour in honey and greek yogurt and mix well with oat mixture. 
  • Top with a layer of mini chocolate chips. Cover the lid and refrigerate overnight. 

Notes

Swap vanilla yogurt for vanilla Greek yogurt. 
You can leave the yogurt out altogether. If you do this, it won’t be as creamy. 
Feel free to add in extra sweetener if you want. 
Not in the mood for chocolate? Skip the chocolate chips!
You can find this powder in the same aisle as the regular peanut butter. If your grocery store doesn’t have it there, look in the organic section as they sometimes hide it there. Other brands work perfectly well as a substitution.
This powder is simply roasted peanuts that are pressed to push out all excess oil. Then its is ground up into a powder.  
 

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 276kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 15g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 9mg | Sodium: 144mg | Potassium: 229mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 150IU | Calcium: 136mg | Iron: 1.4mg
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Ginny
Ginny

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Ginny Collins is a passionate foodie and recipe creator of Savor and Savvy and Kitchenlaughter. Indoors she focuses on easy, quick recipes for busy families and kitchen basics. Outdoors, she focuses on backyard grilling and smoking to bring family and friends together. She is a lifelong learner who is always taking cooking classes on her travels overseas and stateside. Her work has been featured on MSN, Parade, Fox News, Yahoo, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and many local news outlets. She lives in Florida where you will find her outside on the water in her kayak, riding her bike on trails, and planning her next overseas adventure.

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About Ginny

Hi!

Ginny Collins is a passionate foodie and recipe creator of Savor and Savvy and Kitchenlaughter. Indoors she focuses on easy, quick recipes for busy families and kitchen basics. Outdoors, she focuses on backyard grilling and smoking to bring family and friends together. She is a lifelong learner who is always taking cooking classes on her travels overseas and stateside. Her work has been featured on MSN, Parade, Fox News, Yahoo, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and many local news outlets. She lives in Florida where you will find her outside on the water in her kayak, riding her bike on trails, and planning her next overseas adventure.

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Comments

  1. Bindi U says

    December 11, 2023 at 12:50 pm

    5 stars
    love anything peanut butter!

    Reply
  2. Connie says

    March 30, 2023 at 8:08 am

    The flavor is good but it set up like concrete! If I make it again I’ll probably leave out the yogurt or double the milk. It’s so thick and sticky it’s hard to swallow.

    Reply
  3. Audrey Harwell says

    May 09, 2021 at 11:07 pm

    Hello, I am confused on the calorie count. I used the ingredients exactly how they’re written. Is that 276 calories? Or do I timed it by 2? Thanks!

    Reply
    • Ginny says

      May 18, 2021 at 7:47 am

      The recipe makes 2 servings so it is 276 servings for EACH serving. I hope that helps. There is a calorie counter installed where we just input the ingredients and then divide by the number of servings and it is pretty accurate. If I ever feel that a recipe isn’t matching, I will not do calorie counts at all and note it in the recipe card for everyone. I hope that helps! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Trish Flowers says

    February 11, 2021 at 8:43 pm

    I just made these and plugged into My Fitness Pal. I used PB2 powder, oat milk and coconut yogurt. I won’t actually try it until tomorrow at work, but I have really enjoyed experimenting with different recipes. Cannot wait to try it!

    Reply
    • Ginny says

      February 12, 2021 at 9:34 am

      That is awesome! Let us know how it works out!!

      Reply
  5. Alicia says

    April 30, 2019 at 1:03 am

    Alex if you use peanut butter powder, unsweetened almond milk and lily’s chocolate chips you can make it WW friendly.

    Reply
    • Ginny says

      May 22, 2019 at 5:39 am

      Alicia! Love that idea! Thanks for the tip!!

      Reply
  6. Alex says

    January 27, 2019 at 11:30 am

    Lol just put this into my WW app and it’s 19 points? Yeah try again.

    Reply
    • Ginny says

      February 13, 2019 at 7:13 pm

      Hey Alex! I have been updating all the recipe plug ins and our current one does not have the WW points and I don’t have the old version with WW points. I wish it did so I could see what you saw. But no worries at all. I double checked the recipe anyways to make sure that there are no references to WW points on it as I definitely don’t want to claim something that is inaccurate. Thanks again! 🙂

      Reply
    • Ginny says

      February 13, 2019 at 7:19 pm

      Hey Alex, just a thought with your app too! It is 2 servings! Anyways, thanks again for checking in!

      Reply
  7. Candi says

    December 14, 2018 at 12:26 pm

    Love this recipe. I had it for breakfast this morning. Used almond milk instead. So good.

    Reply
    • Ginny says

      January 14, 2019 at 8:54 am

      Love Almond milk! I just made a post for more overnight oats that all use Almond milk and it turns the oats so creamy!! Is that what happened to you as well?

      Reply
  8. Kristen says

    May 11, 2018 at 7:50 pm

    I love this. I’ve made it several trips he’s now. It’s so easy and really yummy. I’ve been using almond milk instead of 2% and it turned out great!

    Reply
  9. Betsey says

    May 07, 2017 at 3:25 pm

    Do you have nutrition facts? I’m wanting to figure out weight watchers points.

    Reply
  10. Stephanie says

    January 12, 2016 at 8:03 pm

    I’m always trying to make my night before a busy morning a bit easier. Making a few of these jars ahead of time would certainly help that… and help ensure I have breakfast! {client}

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      January 16, 2016 at 10:52 am

      These definitely are a nice way to save time in the morning!

      Reply
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