10 Minute Overnight Oats

Your next good morning might already be sitting in the fridge. We’re making Figgy Overnight Oats, a make ahead breakfast you can prep in about 10 minutes the night before and eat the moment you wake up. It’s bright from orange zest, naturally sweet from dried figs, and hearty enough to actually keep you full. 

Along the way, we zoom out to the bigger cannabis wellness picture. I share why North Bloom magazine has a special place in my heart and how projects like it help shift cannabis stigma in mainstream spaces, especially as more people and more seniors look to edibles for real quality of life improvements. So many first experiences with cannabis come through friends and family, which makes clear education and responsible dosing part of the job we all share. 

Then we get practical: the exact ingredients, why old fashioned rolled oats matter, why walnuts wait until morning, and how to customize with blueberries, hemp hearts, yogurt, or different spices. If you want to turn this into a true cannabis edibles recipe, we talk infused honey and infused maple syrup, why THC is fat soluble, and the simple technique that helps infused sweeteners hit more reliably. 

Grab the recipe, try one jar tonight, and tell me what you changed. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs easier mornings, and leave a review so more curious cooks can find Bite Me.

Transcript

Listener Note And Edibles Personality

SPEAKER_00 0:05

Hello friends. Today we're doing Figgy Overnight Oats, and I'm excited to share this recipe with you for a few different reasons. But I'm your host, Margaret, a certified gangier, a TCI certified cannabis educator, and I believe your kitchen is the best dispensary you'll ever have. Welcome to Bite Me the Showpit Edibles. Let's grab a snack and dive in, shall we? Well, friends, before we get into today's episode, I just wanted to share with you a voice note from Wayne of New York, who shares with us his edibles personality from the quiz. And if you haven't yet checked out that episode or tried the quiz yourself, I suggest you head on over to BitemePodcast.com and try it out for yourself. It's just a little something fun that you can do to find out what edibles personality you are.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

Hello, Margaret. This is Wayne. I just listened to your podcast, and as for what I am, I would say I am the forgetter. I found weed the other day, and it was a couple years old. I was like, where did this come from?

North Bloom And Changing Cannabis Stigma

The Case For Overnight Oats

Ingredients That Make It Shine

Infused Sweeteners And Better Binding

Easy Variations And Final Tips

SPEAKER_00 1:36

And of course, if you want to leave your own message via the fan mail in your podcast app, by all means, please do. You can send a text message, or now you can leave a voice message, which I think is fabulous because I love hearing people's voices. Now, if you are joining us for the first time today, welcome. I'm really glad that you're here and that you found the podcast. And if you've been with us for a while, thank you so much for your support. I appreciate you. This podcast wouldn't exist without the loyal listeners of Bite Me the Showbed Edibles. Now, today we are talking about Figgy Overnight Oats. This recipe comes to you because of an article that I wrote for North Bloom magazine in their winter issue. North Bloom magazine has a special place in my heart. It is a magazine, a cannabis wellness magazine that is really challenging mainstream ideas about cannabis in Minnesota. And I did have Angelique Zarillo on the show a little while ago. She's an incredible human being. Editor-in-chief of the magazine is working so hard to change the conversation around cannabis in more mainstream spaces. And I think that is so necessary right now because, of course, during that conversation, we talked a lot about how there is still so much stigma about cannabis. But it's conversations like these, it's magazines like these that are appearing out there that are changing hearts and minds. And whenever I seen an article about, say, seniors who want to go out, I was just reading an article like a few minutes ago, which is why this is top of mind, I guess. But how seniors were interested in trying edibles to improve their lives. The article mentioned how often they heard about the benefits of cannabis from some from the medical community, but many from friends and family. You and I are the way that many people come back to cannabis or discover cannabis for the very first time. And whether that's trying a topical to ease some aches and pains, or whether it's trying out, trying out some new edibles to see if it improves certain areas of your life, or whether it's just enjoying some cannabis to unwind and relax. People are coming to cannabis through people like you and me. Let's keep it up, friends. And a big shout out to Angelique if you're listening to this and all the hard work that you're doing with all the team that you have in Minnesota with North Blue Magazine. What I love about this recipe is that you prepped your breakfast the night before in under 10 minutes. And this morning, all you have to do is stir it and eat. And that's it. That's what I love about this recipe, is that it is so easy. And for many people, mornings are rushed, and we want to leave the house feeling that we've had something nourishing for our bodies, and maybe maybe even including some cannabinoids. Because of course, when you are creating your own edibles and taking control of your high life, you and I both know that it doesn't just has to have to be THC, it can be CBD, it can be a ratio, it can be whatever serves you best. When mornings are so busy, we often don't spend the time to make something healthy before we walk out the door because we're rushed. Everyone wants a nourishing morning routine, but the nourishing morning routine is often the first thing that goes when you've overslept, when you've hit the snooze button one too many times, when you're trying to scramble kids together. There's a million different reasons why mornings can be stressful. This recipe came out of that problem. And I wrote it for North Bloom magazine, and it deserves our attention. So the thing that I love about this recipe is how easy it is to put together. And I think the most difficult part about it is remembering to do it the night before. But it literally takes like five, 10 minutes of hands-on time, probably closer to five. So, what do you need to put together this beautiful recipe? You need obviously rolled oats, not the instant kind. You need some milk of your choice. It can be dairy or non-dairy, whatever you prefer. You need a little bit of orange juice, maple syrup, ground an anise, anise seed. I never know how to say it. It's one of those uh spices I hear, I see written all the time, but I've never heard it said out loud. So if I'm saying it wrong, feel free to correct me. Send me a voicemail or a fan mail. You need some orange zest, dried figs, and walnuts. For the oats, you want the old-fashioned kind because the texture is going to matter and it's gonna be sitting overnight, clearly, as based on the title of this particular recipe, in the milk. So it's going to have a chance to soak up all those, all that goodness. I do like to buy bags of oatmeal because it does come in handy. I like making granola, I love making oatmeal. These overnight oats have become part of my regular routine. And oatmeal cookies, how could I forget? I like making oatmeal cookies as well. So I do like to buy my oatmeal in the big bags from Costco. Or any store sells oats. That's they're very accessible. The next is the orange juice and the zest. And the two forms are doing two different jobs. The juice soaks in along with the milk, and the zest wakes up the whole bowl. Honestly, if you had to do one or the other, I feel like the zest really does brighten up the whole dish. I have made it with and without the orange juice. And the orange juice, I mean, once you buy it, if you have a jug of orange juice, it only doesn't take very much, so you'll have it to make many batches of this particular recipe. Then you have the anise seed and it's warming flavor that I really enjoy. If you're unsure about it, you can always leave it out. But I suggest you try it and see how you like it. Now, the figs, this is where the sweetness comes in. And what I really love about the figs is that they offer some real nutrition without a whole lot of like sugariness, if that makes sense. And when they have been chopped and put into the oatmeal and the and the liquids, the orange juice and the milk, they soften overnight. And so it makes for a really hearty oatmeal that's going to keep you feeling full for a while as well. Because sometimes I do find that when you eat oatmeal in the morning, it's sometimes it's delicious and it's satisfying, but doesn't necessarily keep you full for a long time. But the figs really do help with that. And of course, you can experiment with other dried fruit as well if you find that you're having trouble finding figs or you just want to switch it up. But figs are where it's at. And of course, the walnuts, they go in in the morning, not the night before, because you want them to stay crunchy. I just usually take a small handful. I have like walnut halves and they crunch pretty easily in my hand. I sprinkle it on top, and there you go. The maple syrup or the honey that you're going to use. This is, if you decide to infuse this dish, this is where you're going to have your infusion point. That's where the real fun is, am I right? So the thing that I love about this recipe is that it is, like I said, healthy. You have your vitamin C from the orange, you have the fiber from the figs, you have the oatmeal, which is heart healthy and also high in soluble fiber. And it can help with, you know, reducing your risk of heart disease. And you have your walnuts, which are high in omega-3 fatty acids. Oftentimes, if you're interested, you can always add a little sprinkle of fiber on top. I have done that before the next morning. I tried it once the night before, it did not work out. So I don't recommend doing that. But sometimes that little extra sprinkle of psyllium fiber can really help with that feeling of satiety. Sometimes I also do like the nuttiness of hemp parts. So if you don't necessarily have walnuts or you still need to go out and buy them, sprinkle on some hemp parts or other nuts that you enjoy. The infusion is where this recipe becomes a bite meat recipe, or shall I say, an north bloom recipe in this particular instance. Maple syrup, infused maple syrup or honey is one of the most versatile, underrated infusion formats that you can have in your kitchen. And I recently did an episode on five pantry items you should have in your infusion pantry. A liquid sugar of some kind was definitely on that list. It doesn't change the flavor profile or drops it into any recipe that calls for a sweetener. No one's necessarily going to know that it's there unless you tell them, which, you know, can be a pro and a con. There is a little trick, of course, to making an infused liquid sweetener because THC is fat soluble and doesn't necessarily bind to a straight-up sugar the same way as it would in a regular infusion. So you have to work with that. And there are techniques to do so effectively. And that's basically just mixing in a little bit of infused fat in with your honey so that it's effective. If you don't do that, it's not really going to be very effective because again, THD is fat soluble. But I can link to some episodes that I've done around making infused sweetener, actually, rather recently, and in case you need a refresher or you've never made an infused honey or syrup before, but I love having those on hand. I will often have infused CBD honeys and ratioed honeys on hand quite often because they are fabulous in recipes like this and also in beverages. Obviously, shine beautifully in beverages. And of course, even if you're just using a CBD-based infusion, you often still want to know like how potent, how much CBD it is that you're consuming. And if you want help in figuring that out, you can head over to the Bite Me Dosage calculator that was designed for that purpose. It probably says something about THC, but you just swap in CBD, it's going to do the same thing. Using some of these cannabinoids first thing in the morning can really help with that ECS tone that helps bring our bodies into homeostasis or natural balance, which is one of the reasons why we're enjoying a recipe like this in the first place. We're trying to prepare our bodies for a busy day. So with any recipe, I always recommend to try some variations in order to keep it interesting. And I already mentioned a few, but another that I also really enjoy are blueberries, quite nice on this, along with the figs. I did already mention the hemp heart, but you could also add a little Greek yogurt. You could try dates instead of the figs, or I imagine dried apricots would also work very well for this. A pinch of cardamom or cinnamon, especially in the cooler months, might be nice, but you could also experiment with the different spices that are in this recipe. And once you've made the base, you can make it yours. That's the whole point of building a recipe from scratch. And this is another lovely canvas for you to experiment because you may find that it is a wonderful recipe first thing in the morning when you're really busy and you're trying to get out the door. But we all tire of the same thing I know I do. Even though, especially when it comes to breakfast, I can eat the same breakfast every morning for a long time and then suddenly be like, I can't do it anymore. And I have to totally switch it up. And switch it up might just mean changing some of the ingredients in that recipe, changing some of the elements so that it feels fresh again. Take five minutes, try this recipe out the night before, pull it out of the fridge. I usually just mix it all up in a jar. You pretty much just add all the ingredients in a jar, leaving out the walnuts, like I mentioned, and I put it in the fridge, forget about it, and then the next morning when I'm like, oh, I got so many things to do before I get out of the house, it's ready in the fridge waiting for me. And I love that. And of course, the recipe is written for one person. You can easily double, triple, quadruple if you have more mouths to feed. It's just so nice to be able to pull it out of the fridge, put it into a bowl, add your toppings, and you're ready for a great day. You can find the full recipe and the article link in the show notes. If you are in Minnesota, look for North Bloom magazine. I would love to see where you see them in the wild if you do. And if you are not in Minnesota, but you'd like a copy. I do have a couple copies of this issue at my house. Just shoot me a message and I can probably send you one. But it's kind of first come, first serve. I think I only have like three copies, perhaps. Not too many. I'd have to double check. That's it for this week, my friends. I hope you tried this recipe out. I'm your host, Margaret. Stay curious and stay high.