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Peanut Butter Cup Collagen Overnight Oats

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July 19, 2018 By Laura Ligos, MBA, RD, CSSD Leave a Comment

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These Peanut Butter Cup Collagen Overnight Oats have become a weekly meal prep staple for me and they also seem like a snack/dessert, so it feels wrong, but oh so right. These are easy to make and even easier to eat. You’re welcome.

FYI, while I’m hoping to get you a minimum of 2 recipes per week, I’m also working on some website improvements, some new packages to offer and hoping to have the content rolling on here consistently, so please bear with me 🙂 In the meantime, enjoy this simple recipe that gets me through busy weeks.

Quick & Easy Breakfast

I hear complaints all the time that breakfast is so hard. Clients/friends/gym-goers complain that there is no time for breakfast and/or no good options. Well, I get it, but if you plan ahead and have some good fall backs, you don’t really have that excuse anymore. I think that many of us want an excuse to eat a donut or a granola bar or a bagel in the break room. Those choices are easy, quick, accessible, and appear as if they will make us happy, full, and fueled.

The truth is none of those really ever satisfy us. If anything they make us more hungry and do NOT set us up for success. I’m not expecting you to make a 4 course meal for breakfast, but what I am asking you to do is to prep ahead and stop making excuses for a lackluster (read: non-nutritious) breakfast. Breakfast (or any meal for that matter) doesn’t need to be complicated in order to be healthy. It also doesn’t need to be the tastiest meal in all the world to satisfy & fuel you, end of story.

Overnight Oats

Speaking of quick & easy, overnight oats fall into that category. They aren’t always the prettiest looking meal. Seriously, sometimes it looks like baby poo BUT at least it normally tastes good.

Overnight oats are basically a cold version of souped up oatmeal. You throw a bunch of ingredients together, mix them on up, and then store in an airtight container in the fridge OVERNIGHT. So there you have it OVERNIGHT OATS. Or cold oatmeal mixed with random things, thrown together super quick and hope that you get a congealed end product by the next day…

Many complain that oatmeal a. takes too much time, b. is flavorless, c. isn’t filling, d. if they use store bought packets, filled with too much sugar and/or e. all of the above. I’m with you, oatmeal doesn’t always excite me, however, overnight oats may help to make me a believer. Not to mention, oats have been heavily researched and are shown to help reduce risk of heart disease, stabilize blood sugar, and much more. So, I guessssss we all could try harder to get them in our diet on a regular basis, okay?!

Peanut Butter Cup

Wait, hold up, I know I called oats healthy, but also called these peanut butter cup collagen overnight oats. So, are peanut butter cups healthy? Maybe not. I know, you are really only here for the peanut butter cup part of this, aren’t you. Well the good news is that there are peanuts and chocolate in this recipe. The bad news is that there are no actual peanut butter cups in this recipe. I suppose you could use peanut butter cups as one of the toppings, but I never told you that, okay?!

I love the flavor combination of peanut butter and chocolate, so it is no surprise that I make my overnight oats this way. Sometimes I top with fruit, like cherries or berries. Other times I’ll top with nuts/seeds/chocolate. One of my friends even likes to use yogurt in her overnight oats. However, most of the time I eat it as is, with a spoon, right out of the jar because I hate dishes. So, while peanut butter cups may not be healthy, peanuts and chocolate are, so le’ts make this an adult peanut butter cup that satisfies our sweet tooth, fills up up AND fuels us with nutritious ingredients. #sassyapproved

Collagen?

Say what?

One more piece to this bad boy, the main protein source, collagen. I will write a whole post on this at a later date, but collagen peptides (I use Vital Proteins) are great for skin, gut, and joint health. It is an easy protein powder to mix into almost anything and is virtually flavorless. I like to mix it into water, coffee, tea, and now my overnight oats. It’s a great way to get more protein in the day and be able to maintain the flavor profile of whatever is I am trying to make/eat.

I’d recommend trying some out, but make sure (as with any supplement) that you check in with your trusty health care professional and you start with a small dose to ensure you tolerate it. No need to overdo it on your first try. This recipe calls for 4 scoops but you can easily substitute any other protein powder in it’s place.

Pro Tip: swap in any milk alternative, and add milk slowly! Some protein powders absorb more liquids than others. You want the consistency to be a thick batter of sorts, so to ensure it’s not a thin soup, pour in milk by 1/4 cups.

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Peanut Butter Cup Collagen Overnight Oats

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups rolled oats
  • 2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder (I used dark cocoa)
  • 1/4 cup chia seeds
  • 4 scoops collagen peptides powder (40g)
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 5.3 oz. Greek yogurt
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 Tbsp maple syrup (optional)

Instructions

  1. Mix oats, cocoa powder, chia seeds, collagen powder in a large bowl and stir to combine evenly
  2. Add in the remainder of the ingredients and stir to combine.
  3. Place mixture in a sealed jar or container and refrigerate overnight.
  4. Enjoy by topping with nuts, seeds, fruit, chocolate, etc.

Notes

Macros for 5 servings: 26g Protein, 37g Carb, 19g Fat

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Sassy

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We’ve made it over a week together and it feels We’ve made it over a week together and it feels like it’s always been this way.

Motherhood is a wild ride & it’s only getting started. I have never been so tired & simultaneously so fulfilled in my life. That’s not to say it’s not filled with tears, worries and doubts but what fun would it be if it were all sunshine and roses anyway?

Going into this all I have felt so supported by friends going through this with me BUT I felt so unsupported by the general public. It seems like we want to fear and shame moms because misery loves company, right?!

The focus quickly shifts from mom to baby (still shocked that I only have an appointment at 6 weeks even though my body went through the biggest event of its life) and there also seems to be this shift from joy to shame & guilt.

Here’s some of what I heard from people:

😕Sleep when baby sleeps. You’ll never sleep again.
😕Don’t let baby sleep in a car seat, or a bouncer, or anywhere but their crib EVER. 
😕You’ll never have time to shower again, enjoy it now. 
😕Cry it out is cruel and harmful to the baby. 
😕Get baby on a schedule/never put baby on a schedule.

These are all things I heard and that truly led me to believe I was going to lose all sense of who I was and my life as I knew it.

What I wish people had said instead were:

🥰Your heart will grow bigger than you could imagine.
🥰You’ll cry the happiest tears you’ve ever cried.
🥰You’ll feel like a giant hole was filled that you didn’t even know was there.
🥰You won’t feel guilty about cleaning your house, it just won’t matter anymore.
🥰Babies pooping will make you laugh so hard you will feel like a kid again.
🥰You will have time to eat and shower and you don’t have to neglect yourself.

We need to do a better job of building each other up, supporting one another and our decisions while refraining from offering unsolicited advice and opinions. 

So for all you future mamas and new mamas out there, I see you, I’m proud of you and I cannot wait to share our stories with one another and the world.

Let’s stop fear mongering (just like the diet world) and start building one another up.

Xoxo,
Sassy & lil sassy man
🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s b 🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s been a long year of loss, unknowns and worry but it’s all been worth it to get to meet my lil man🥰
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Now time to introduce this sassy human who is already so well loved to the world...
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Introducing 

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After an almost 24 hour labor, Connor joined us over a week past his due date on 2/12/21 at a whopping 9lb2oz & 22.5 inches long with a full head of hair and lungs to scream hello to us with.
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We are so in love already and cannot wait to share him with the world. Thank you for all the love and support from friends and family and to all those that helped us in the hospital. Holy cow labor & delivery teams are truly magical and I cannot imagine doing it without all of their support.
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Now back to snuggling this human of mine and trying not to cry at every last thing he does 🥰 
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Mom, Dad & Bode are all doing well!
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I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk t I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk to others about what worked for us. That's great!
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What's not great is when we push our nutrition and eating behaviors onto others ESPECIALLY when we are not qualified to do so.
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So often when people meet me for the first time they are worried to eat around me and/or buy groceries around me. My friends can attest I am not judgemental around food and will gladly eat that cake, queso dip or sip on that glass of wine right alongside of you. I am not the food police and do not offer unsolicited nutrition advice unless it's a client who is paying for my help OR on Instagram and other social media platforms where my goal is to educate.
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Why do I share this? 
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Because I see far too many people diving down diet rabbit holes, finding success & then claiming to be nutrition experts purely because something worked for them. 
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I've also seen this alot being pregnant, everyone wants to tell you what worked for them. IF you use that stipulation of "this worked for me" then fine, share away but if you start doleing out advice please pause, take a breath and think about NOT doing it.
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People are OVERWHELMED by diet culture and some so badly want to change but YOUR way is not the only way and it most likely is not what will work for your friend/coworker/cousin/neighbor so please, stop trying to be an expert in something you aren't.
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Got it!?! 
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Ok, carry on.
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xoxo,
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Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. I'm not saying you have to find perfect balance (does that even exist?) but I am saying that we shouldn't feel like either we have to eat perfectly or that we might as well give up.
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Instead we should look to the grey area in between for our nutrition guidance. 
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We can have a glass or 2 of wine but we should probably also drink some water. 
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We can take rest days but we should also find ways to move our bodies regularly.
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It's not about all or nothing it's about doing something daily to help your health and nutrition without it feeling like a set of rules or a free for all.
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How do we find that grey area in between?
👉🏻 stop hopping on and off fad diets
👉🏻listen and trust your self, not your coworkers and cousins 
👉🏻focus on the simple things (ie drinking water instead of worrying about supplements)
👉🏻work to remove guilt and shame around food & body
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Where do you currently fall Right now?!
🤪 all
👍🏻in between 
🙅🏻‍♀️ nothing 
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