Easy Overnight Slow Cooker Oatmeal Recipe – great for busy mornings!
I shared my large family version of easy overnight slow cooker oatmeal on Instagram a few weeks ago. This recipe is so simple, and it’s a favorite of mine. I like to make overnight slow cooker oatmeal on some Saturday nights, so we have a piping hot breakfast waiting for us on Sunday morning. This recipe is also Trim Healthy Mama (affiliate link) friendly as a crossover meal since I use butter (smeal) with the oatmeal (emeal serving).
Several of our boys eating slow cooker oatmeal on Sunday before church.
Overnight Slow Cooker Oatmeal Recipe
Easy Overnight Slowcooker Oatmeal Recipe - great for busy mornings!
Enjoy overnight slow cooker oatmeals as a sanity saving large family breakfast! I like to make this on a Saturday night for breakfast Sunday morning.
Ingredients
- Six cups old fashioned oatmeal
- 12 cups liquid water, milk, almond milk - your choice
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 3-4 pats of butter
Instructions
- Spray slow cooker with cooking spray
- Set heat on low
- add 6 cups of old-fashioned oatmeal
- add 12 cups of liquid (water, milk, almond milk - your choice)
- add a splash of vanilla
- plop of cinnamon
- a few pats of butter
- keep it on low for about 7 hrs.
- sweeten as desired
- serve with fruit, greek yogurt, toast, or your favorite sides
Grains all need salt when you cook them. Rice, oats, grits, bulgur wheat…anything. 1t per cup of grain. I would use 4t for this large recipe. Actually makes sugar taste sweeter so you use less.
Cook it in 1/2 canned coconut milk, 1/2 water and the fat will help in balancing blood sugar and satiate you, instead of just getting a sugar high from all the grains and sugar and fruit with no protein or fat.
Make hardboiled eggs night before also and let kids peel their 2 or 3 each, in the a.m.