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Overnights Oats For Baby

Carine By Carine Claudepierre
Published on 09/06/2021 - Last updated on 11/13/2023

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This easy recipe of Overnight Oats for Baby from 6 months of age has a delicious creamy texture and is full of fiber, healthy fat, plant-based proteins, and iron.

Bonus, this recipe is also gluten-free, dairy-free, and a healthy vegan kid breakfast recipe.

Overnight Oats for Toddler in a small serving jar, decorated with blueberries and a raspberry with another jar and strawberries in the background.
Table of contents
  1. Are Oats Healthy For Babies?
  2. Ingredients For Baby Overnight Oats
  3. How To Make Overnight Oats For Baby
  4. Storage Instructions
  5. Tips And Tricks For Best Results
  6. Texture To Expect
  7. Serving Suggestions
  8. More Baby Recipes
  9. Overnights Oats For Baby

Are Oats Healthy For Babies?

Yes, oats are absolutely safe and a healthy cereal to offer to babies showing readiness to eat solids from 6 months.

In fact, oats contain a good amount of minerals and vitamins that are essential for small kids, and they also it’s a good source of plant-based iron.

Old-fashioned rolled oats shouldn’t be offered before one year of age because of their coarse texture.

For earlier stages, focus on homemade oat flour to make soft baby cookies, and baby teething crackers, or use quick oats, a version of pulsed rolled oats.

At What Age Can I Offer Oats To A Baby?

You can offer oats from 6 months of age, as long as the texture is fine and easy to swallow.

Never use steel-cut oats or old-fashioned oats before your baby is 1 year old.

While both are the most nourishing oat varieties, they are also thick, too high in fiber, and can be a choking hazard.

Ingredients For Baby Overnight Oats

It’s very easy to prepare overnight oats for babies and such a convenient breakfast for busy mums.

All you need are a few simple, wholesome ingredients that you stir together the day before:

Overnight Oats For Baby Ingredients in small serving bowls next to a kid's spoon
  • Quick Oats – this is the smaller cut of oats, thinner than old-fashioned oats. They soften very well in liquid to make creamy foods that are soft to eat.
  • Chia Seeds – are full of fiber, protein, and iron, so a healthy add-on to your baby food. It’s a must-use for baby overnight oat recipes, or the texture would be too liquid. You can’t make this recipe without chia seeds. Though you could try a flaxseed meal, its color and flavor aren’t as good.
  • Unsweetened Almond Milk or your own breastmilk or milk of choice.
  • Yogurt – we used coconut yogurt, but any yogurt your baby loves is great.
  • Mashed Banana – or homemade baby pumpkin puree to sweeten and add some vitamins.
  • Vanilla Extract for flavor.

How To Make Overnight Oats For Baby

Like most overnight oats recipes, this version for babies is really simple to make.

Step by step instructions to make the Baby Overnight Oats
  1. In a wide mixing bowl, combine quick oats, and chia seeds.
  2. Then, stir in all the remaining ingredients until evenly combined.
  3. Wrap the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. I recommend stirring the mixture after 2-3 hours to ensure that the sides are well distributed in the mix and don’t gravitate to the bottom of the bowl.
  4. To serve this delicious recipe to babies, you have two options:
  • Plain – babies don’t need added sugar, and they enjoy the creamy, slurry texture of this chia oat pudding plain.
  • Fresh fruits – add some soft, easy-to-eat fruits for babies like raspberries or blueberries.

Storage Instructions

The next day, transfer the prepared recipe to mason jars and store for up to 4 days in the fridge.

You can also freeze overnight oats in ice cube trays and thaw them in the fridge the day before serving.

Tips And Tricks For Best Results

  1. Use quick oats only – old-fashioned oats are too coarse for babies, and oat flour won’t soak up the liquid as well, and you will need to add way more oat flour to reach the same consistency.
  2. Adjust – depending on your baby’s age. You can thin out the recipe by adding some more milk or yogurt before serving.
  3. Don’t skip the chia seeds – the oats wouldn’t firm up without the seeds.
  4. Sweeten – for kids over 12 months of age, you can add a touch of natural sweetener in the blend like maple syrup.
  5. Warm it up! I know it’s supposed to be a cold breakfast for babies, but some kids don’t like it very much. So if it happens to you, don’t throw away your batch of baby overnight oats. Instead, warm it up in a baby cooker or microwave until just lukewarm.

Texture To Expect

Overnight oats for babies are way more liquid than my regular overnight oats recipe.

In fact, babies need food easy to swallow and not as high in fiber as adults. If you add too much fiber to babies’ food, it becomes:

  • Difficult to swallow.
  • Too fulfilling, and they won’t have any hunger for other important nutrients.
  • Creates gut issue – bloating or diarrhea.

So this healthy breakfast for babies has been designed with fewer chia seeds and quick oats to decrease fiber and avoid the above.

Quick oats are lower in fiber than old-fashioned oats usually used in regular recipes, and therefore, they won’t absorb the liquid as much.

So,  if the texture is too liquid for your little one, you can:

  • Stir in an extra teaspoon of chia seeds and wait 2-3 hours or warm it up to quickly activate the seeds and create a baby porridge-like texture.
  • Stir extra quick oats – 1-2 tablespoons.
Overnight Oats for Babies in two small jars, decorated with blueberries and raspberries

Serving Suggestions

I love to serve this baby overnight oats with fresh fruits on top of the jar for kids over 9 months of age.

Kids love cute presentations and enjoy even more digging in their food if it’s fun and attractive.

Other lovely kid-friendly toppings are:

  • Peanut butter or any nut butter you love.
  • Seed butter
  • Mashed banana
  • Yogurt

More Baby Recipes

I love sharing my baby food recipes that are egg-free, dairy-free, and simply allergy-friendly and nourishing.

  • Baby-led Weaning Muffins
  • Baby Banana Pancakes
  • Baby Teething Crackers
  • 3-Ingredient Chia Pudding

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Overnight Oats for Toddler

Overnights Oats For Baby

An easy nourishing baby-led weaning breakfast recipe to introduce oats and chia seeds.
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Prep Time: 5 minutes mins
Refrigerate: 1 day d
Total Time: 1 day d 5 minutes mins
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 43.8 kcal
Author: Carine Claudepierre
4.99 from 206 votes

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup Quick Oats - Not old-fashioned rolled oats, or pulse your rolled oats into a finer texture
  • 1-2 teaspoons Chia Seeds - start with 1 under 8 months, add 2 for thicker texture.
  • ½ cup Almond Milk
  • 1 tablespoon Yogurt of Choice
  • 2 tablespoons Mashed Banana - or baby pumpkin puree
  • ½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract

To serve

  • ¼ cup Berries - or banana chunks

Instructions

  • In a medium mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredients: quick oats and chia seeds. Make sure you are using quick oats, which is a pulsed version of old-fashioned oats. It has a smaller texture but is still thicker than oat flour and perfect for babies.
  • Stir in almond milk, yogurt, mashed banana, and vanilla extract. Stir until all ingredients are well combined.
  • Cover bowl with film wrap and refrigerate overnight or at least 6 hours. I recommend stirring after 2-3 hours to prevent the seeds from sinking to the bottom of the bowl.
  • The next day, offer plain or with berries or a drizzle of maple syrup if your baby is over 1 year old. If too thick for your little one, thin out by adding some almond milk. If too thin, stir in an extra teaspoon of chia seed and soak for 3 extra hours.

Notes

Storage Instructions

Store your baby overnight oats for up to 4 days in the fridge in an airtight container or freeze and thaw in the fridge the day before.

Allergy Swaps

This recipe is naturally:
  • Dairy-free
  • Sugar-free
  • Soy-free
  • Egg-free
You can use gluten-free certified oats if you are concerned about gluten allergies for your little one.
Other options are to replace quick oats with millet flakes, amaranth, or quinoa flakes.
All three are nourishing grains that work well in baby porridge or baby breakfast preparation.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 43.8kcal | Carbohydrates: 7.1g | Protein: 1.3g | Fat: 1.3g | Saturated Fat: 0.2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 0.7mg | Sodium: 43.5mg | Potassium: 62.2mg | Fiber: 1.4g | Sugar: 2.1g | Vitamin A: 14.7IU | Vitamin B12: 0.1µg | Vitamin C: 0.9mg | Vitamin D: 0.1µg | Calcium: 53.4mg | Iron: 0.4mg | Magnesium: 20mg | Phosphorus: 39mg | Zinc: 0.3mg
Carine Claudepierre & Damien Maurer

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Carine
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, photographer, and published author of a cookbook and founder of The Conscious Plant Kitchen with my husband Damien. Learn more about us.

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Ingredients:

BananaChia SeedsOatsPlant-Based MilkPlant-Based YogurtVanilla

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    12 comments
  1. Michelle Goodman says:
    November 7, 2023 at 1:44 pm

    Dumb question – do you cook the quick oats first?

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      November 9, 2023 at 3:44 pm

      Not at all, overnight oats recipes consist of soaking oats in the fridge overnight, no cooking required.

      Reply
  2. Ely Rodriguez says:
    August 18, 2022 at 12:33 am

    First time at this so may so dumb can I use formula powder? And can I freeze this?

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      August 21, 2022 at 7:43 pm

      Yes any milk can be used. It freeze well with regular milk so if formula milk is safe to be freeze then you are good to go. Check your formula milk to know more about it.

      Reply
  3. Marina says:
    March 14, 2022 at 6:35 am

    Will this work with baby oatmeal that’s already ground?

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      March 15, 2022 at 2:52 pm

      I don’t think so, baby oatmeal is not always made at 100% from oat, so the amount of liquid may differ. Not sure how much I am sorry

      Reply
  4. Betty says:
    February 14, 2022 at 8:30 pm

    Can you use apple sauce instead of banana?

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      February 17, 2022 at 3:02 pm

      Absolutely! enjoy, Carine

      Reply
  5. Andrea says:
    January 21, 2022 at 4:09 pm

    Can I heat this up in the microwave if I use breastmilk instead of almond milk. I think breastmilk is not supposed to be microwaved but I’m not sure if it’s the case here too. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      January 23, 2022 at 10:32 am

      Microwave remove all the good things in your breastmilk, so I won’t recommend that for any baby recipes. Overnight oats doesn’t required cooking.

      Reply
  6. Katee says:
    November 21, 2021 at 7:01 pm

    Hi, just wondering if you can share what brand of coconut yogurt you use for this? Thank you.

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      November 21, 2021 at 10:29 pm

      I live in New Zealand so I am using local NZ brands and tried many of them that work well like cathedral cove, raglan or zenzo.

      Reply

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