Aight, I will not stand for overnight oats slander.
Shit is delicious. Get your toppings and sweetner right, try it again and then come back.
No peasant had strawberries, bananas or blueberries to fuck around with. They ain’t had maple syrup or Greek yogurt in that shit. No one thought to make butter from peanuts (I know it’s mostly butter, shhh) and add that in.
what do you mean it’s mostly butter? even peanut butter with added oil/sugar/salt is still some 85% peanuts. Or do you mean simply that it had a high fat content?
Can’t they make peanut butter where they don’t add anything at all? Like just peanuts?
Unsalted natural peanut butter is just roasted peanuts. Salted natural peanut butter is just peanuts and salt. The oil is just from the peanuts, not added.
No mix peanut butter is the same but with palm oil and usually whichever sweeteners are cheapest. Palm oil hardens at room temperature and keeps the peanut oil from separating.
Sounds like you’ve never been to a hippy store. They sometimes have machines that you pour the peanuts into and then you have some peanut butter. You can also have cashew butter, etc.
The peanut butter I buy is 99% peanuts and 1% salt.
What I buy is 100% peanuts and no salt.
They do! But the oil separates and you have to stir it first. And it needs to be refrigerated after opening.
Convenience, whether it’s for the producer or consumer, got us again.
I have never, ever refrigerated peanut butter (the 99%+ peanuts kind).
The label on our jars just say to store in a cool, dry place - ie. in the pantry.
Right, the high fat part.
I use peanut butter powder in my overnight oats. Imagine a peasant seeing all that work done just to remove nutritional content because I want to lose fat.
Just think, genetically we are the same. Our biology has not caught up to the modern world we have constructed.
Oooh, j gotta try that. I bet that with a protein shake instead of milk goes hard.
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Fairly sure that seasonal berries would have been on the menu.
Honey as a sweetener seems viable
Greek yoghurt seems pretty likely anywhere cows were milked
The feudal lords also dit not have giga-yachts, enough wealth to buy social media companies and own about 50 politicians.
Yep. Rich get richer. It was also easier to hang them back then.
But overnight oats are still bomb.
We had berries just growing everywhere along the streets and forests as a kid. Where the fuck did they go?
Healthy AF too!
Ok, I’ve got some cut oats and oat milk. How do I go about this overnight oats thing? It just goes in the fridge?
Yes but that alone will probably not taste too good. A little more effort is worth it. Easy to meal-prep for the whole week too.
I use this guys base recipe and mess around with toppings. The banana bread and pb&j ones are a favorite.
This is a copy paste from his video description:
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1 serving of BASE OATS contains: 310 calories, 12g protein, 45g carbs, 6.5g fat, 14g sugar, and 7g fibre. This is based on using unsweetened almond milk.
BASE OATS (1 serving):
Combine and refrigerate overnight:
► Rolled oats (1/2 cup)
► Chia seeds (1 tbsp)
► Milk (1/2 cup)
► Greek yogurt (1/4 cup)
► Maple syrup (1 tbsp)
BASE OATS (4 servings for meal prep):
Combine and refrigerate overnight:
► Rolled oats (2 cups)
► Chia seeds (1/4 cup)
► Milk (2 cups)
► Greek yogurt (1 cup)
► Maple syrup (1/4 cup)
FLAVOUR #1 - BANANA BREAD
First, prepare banana puree by mashing a ripe banana until it softens into a puree.
Refrigerate ingredients:
► Base oats (1 serving)
► Banana puree
► Ground cinnamon (1/2 tsp)
► Vanilla extract (1/2 tsp)
Add toppings:
► Banana slices
► Maple syrup
► Chopped walnuts
I also like blueberries here
FLAVOUR #2 - PB&J (PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY)
Prepare raspberry puree:
► In a saucepan over medium heat, combine raspberries (1 cup), maple syrup (1 tbsp), and vanilla extract (1/2 tsp)
► Whisk and stir until it softens into a smooth puree consistency
► Set aside to cool
Refrigerate ingredients overnight:
► Base oats (1 serving)
► Raspberry puree
► Natural peanut butter (2 tbsp)
Add toppings:
► Raspberries
► Chopped walnuts
► Maple syrup
Thanks, I’ll give it a go. How important are the chia seeds to the whole operation?
And one more dumb question: are rolled oats and steel cut oats different?
The chia seeds are fairly important. Both nutritionally and they give it a more pudding like texture.
Yes; cut oats are quicker to cook generally and in this case result in a less firm texture. But nutritionally the same.
Thanks for taking the time. I’m a little excited for this project.
Hell yea. Glad I could inspire giving this a go.
The nice thing is is that you get to control a lot of variables here. So pay attention to the first batch and note what you should tweak.
Need more texture? Walnuts! I’m curious to see how other nuts fair. Wanna try cachews at some point.
Too sweet? Less sweetner! Alternatively, add more for a morning sugar rush (I don’t really do coffee so this works).
Something more tart? Dark chocolate & Dutch processed coca!
More frutty? Absolutely! I didn’t mention mangos and peaches but I’m partial to them for this.
But as always: don’t force yourself to like things some rando on the net is yapping about enthusiastically. Everyone is different so do what works for you.
DO NOT call my overnight oats gruel. I make mine with brotein shakes and they fucking rule.
Overnight oats slap. I make mine with oat milk, which is an exciting meta. A bit of cinnamon sugar and vanilla sugar, some honey in the morning.
I like mine with chocolate brotein shakes instead of milk. Those go hard.
America: Land of the free, home of the brave. The richest nation in the world!
Also America: Gig economy so you can earn enough to stay off the streets or prison, where you can legally be made into a slave.
I am a daily oatmeal breakfast guy. It’s great for you and affordable. Definitely better for you than the egg, bacon, and pan fried potatoes. To each their own though, I would call people who eat oats peasants though lol
So it is oatmeal? The weirdest part is referring to it as “oats” then, we say the full name where I’m from like proper green-blooded Americans.
Overnight oats is some other things with oats refrigerated or something? Idk it’s cold though so I’m not about it. I like a hot bowl of oats with my coffee and overnight oats always looks like a pudding to me.
Soaking the oats in cold water or milk over night helps your body to get some of the valuable ingredients. It’s probably a good idea to put them in the fridge overnight so the milk doesn’t go bad. But it’s no problem to heat the soaked oats in the microwave in the morning if you prefer them hot.
If you forgot to soak the oats over night, you can also let them soak in hot water for 30 minutes for a similar effect.
Or you can just eat them unsoaked. They might be a bit less healthy, but after all, they’re still a healthy food.
Good to know. Thanks for explaining that. Never would have guessed it was to pull out more nutrients!
OOP getting roasted in this thread by the oat gang (correctly so)
Object Oriented Programming?
Original OP
Original original poster?
That’s a bingo
That’s a silly thing to say.
Peasants have land.
“Peasant” was basically a farmer. Some peasants had land, many didn’t. If you were a tenant farmer not only did you not own the land, in many cases the land owned you. In many cases you were born on the land and you “rented” it from the manor lord. That meant that you were allowed to grow crops on that land, but you owed the lord for letting you use his land. You’d pay that back with shares of your crop and/or labour on his crops. In return, he was responsible for defending you… but that meant he’d conscript you into his army and you’d fight the invaders.
If you didn’t like that deal, too bad, if you were a villein you couldn’t leave the land without the lord’s permission. You weren’t a slave exactly, but you weren’t free to go find work elsewhere.
There were peasants who did own land, but it wasn’t common. The equivalent today would be if you rented from a landlord, but you had to use a uber-jobs app that required you to do odd jobs for your landlord for free for 1-2 days a week.
Yeah, there was nothing good about it. My great great grandfather was a serf as a kid until it ended at the end of the 1840s. Almost all of the food they produced was taken by their lord. The little bit his family was allowed to keep wasn’t enough to stop them from being sickly from hunger. They lived in a tiny cabin, and slept on what effectively were picnic table benches - two people per bench with their arms and legs hanging down to the floor from each side. There were just a couple differences between that and being slaves. Slaves were legally considered dead, serfs were not. Serfs were bound to the land, slaves were not. That meant a serf could only be bought and sold with the land, and serf families could not be split apart. It also meant they could not legally be murdered or raped. But they were expected to work for and give almost everything they produced to the lord, and they were not paid. They could not leave because they were bound to the land.
A lot of rich capitalist billionaires really would like to bring that back.
Pretty sure they usually worked/lived on the land owned by lords, no?
That would be serf, right?
Serfs were a subset of peasants from what i understand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant
and those are a type of government surveillance drone if i understand ornithology correctly, which i don’t
But they’d work a couple days out of the year and their lord was expected to fight to protect his people and land
No they don’t. They’re landless labourers.
There’s nuance here: a peasant may have owned some land, but often not enough to live off of, which made them dependent on additional labour on the land of some landlord to supplement their own land’s harvest.
I recommend reading this historian’s analysis of life as a peasant.
Thanks for the recommendation but I’m pretty sure peasants still exist.
As I understand the term, it generally refers to the agricultural class in pre-industrial societies. I thought it obvious that this was the comparison made by the post. I’m not aware of any more modern application of the term aside from using it as an insult.
Okay, fair point, my use of the term is very eurocentric. I’ll concede my ignorance on the social structures in other parts of the world where the term may still apply.
As I read this:
First, those agrarian movements which are done by the poor agriculture labourers and marginal farmers, and these kinds of movements are known as peasants movement.
That seems to include marrginal farmers, i.e. those with barely enough land to sustain their family, if that much. We’re back to my point: Peasants may have land, but not enough to qualify as landholders. The criterion is not whether they have any, but whether they have too little, which includes having none at all.
Fair. In India, peasant usually refers to a farmer or agricultural labourer from the SC/ST communities.
but i got an iphone, and it only took 100 payments of 9.99
“Everything is so expensive these days.”
Says the person rocking the newest iPhone Pro Max (they literally just use it for Facebook and Temu).
Finance is a beautifully elegant con.
Honestly oats are one of my favorite foods though, I have binge eaten massive quantities of them before. I think I may have been a horse in a former life.
Hey man overnight oats are delicious!
I’m interested but know nothing about overnight oats. Are they special oats, or just the usual oats and it’s about the cooking/prep?
It’s so easy. It’s easier than making hot oats. I use small jars. Half a cup of rolled oats out of a bag. Half a cup of oat milk maybe a bit of salt, vanilla sugar. Leave it in the fridge overnight. In the morning, delicious cold oats. Great summer breakfast. Takes seconds to prepare.
Throw some oatmeal in a bowl with milk (or water) and leave it overnight. Then throw in some fruit and other things to make it tasty. It is actually quite good and very quick.
overnight
very quick
I knew what you meant but this was a funny juxtaposition.
Lots of sweet overnight oats comments in here. Give savory overnight oats a try! 3/4 cup oats, 3/4 cup chicken broth/bone broth/etc. Throw some chili crisp in with some green onions, maybe even a fried egg. Can’t go wrong.
Overnight oats are fine. The tiny home shit gets to me.
I’m a tiny home dweller. It helps to be a small-statured nimble foldable person who never outgrew the thrill of having sleepovers in a fort, which I am. Now imagine the added thrill of having no mortgage, no rent, no utilities payments, debt-free, every dime I earn is mine to keep & spend as I wish, it’s all pretty great.
That’s awesome if it works for you, especially if it’s your choice. I’m sure the stature helps tremendously.
What I don’t like is single families competing with corporations for homes and driving the prices up to unaffordable levels, and then being fed all these videos about how we should cram ourselves into smaller and smaller boxes just so we could keep a buck we earn.
It’s the same principle with buying a house. Once you own, your savings increases. Except I have a full sized washer and dryer with more leg room.
No one actually needs a 4 bed 3 bath house with a 3 car garage and backyard with pool and storage for a bunch of different hobbies, tools and equipment.
It’s just a wasteful use of resources and literally killing the planet because people aspire to this level of consumption.
Very few are ready to have a conversation about what is actually required to avert climate catastrophe.
Even fewer are prepared to give up the things required to actually avert climate catastrophe.
Ah yes my wife and kids we should all share a one room apartment.
Yet another ML moron who thinks the middle class are the enemy.
Thorndon losers only own one house. Lol.
It doesn’t sound like you’re ready to have the large family, or cohabitation talk.
Brother, may i have some oats?
and? i love me some gruel. get some cinnamon, a little bit of coffee, some weed and some hatred, that’s a good breakfast there
That sounds like a great way to start the day.
All you need is Carl weathers and it’s an LA special
I built and lived in a tiny home for 7 years. 330 sq/feet. I gutted and converted a 1952 Spartan Imperial Mansion. Put in hardwood floors, a bathroom with clawfoot and bidet, a full-sized bed, a pull-out guest bed… I had a full kitchen and fridge, and enough storage for food, guitars, and other things.
I chopped firewood every day because I heated my place with it in the winter via hardwood stove.
I miss a lot about that lifestyle. What I don’t miss was the isolation.
I stayed a few nights in a spartan that had been saved and lovingly restored. Man, they sure don’t make them like that anymore.
