Sugar Free Pumpkin Spiced Overnight Oats Recipe
How to Make Pumpkin Overnight Oats
This is a healthy breakfast option you can make for the week in just a few minutes. Of course you can eat it any time of day (I do for lunch a lot).
This recipe is perfect for a super healthy nutritionally dense meal. It is ALSO great for building up a high nutritionally dense milk supply if you are breastfeeding. That is so important for growing a happy and healthy baby.
This fall recipe combines pumpkin and overnight oats to increase breastmilk supply fast!
Plus it’s a super easy, highly nutritious, and ultra-satisfying breakfast. Exactly what every busy breastfeeding mother needs!
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How Foods can Increase Breastmilk Supply
It is well known that there are many herbs, teas, and supplements that can drastically increase your breastmilk supply; but did you know that adding simple foods to your diet can achieve the same results?
There are a lot of foods called galactagogues that are known to increase lactation in breastfeeding women.
Some very popular galactogogues in America are:
- oats
- flax meal
- Brewer’s yeast
This combination of ingredients can pack a pretty potent punch for increasing breastmilk supply fast, but there are so many more galactagogues that may work even better for your specific body! Check out this great list of lesser-known but powerful galactagogues and tons of snack ideas to make with them.
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Lactogenic Recipes You’ll Love
Here on Vigor it Out we cover tons and tons of lactogenic recipes that are really going to be a huge help to your milk supply as well as helping you to shed the baby weight fast.
In fact I just put together a roundup that I know you’ll love (because you’re here and you must love anything pumpkin as much as I do) of Pumpkin Lactation Recipes for Every Meal!
All of my lactation recipes are super healthy and built to satisfy you with whole foods, no sugar, and give your body the nutrition it needs postpartum!
My favorite ways to nourish your body postpartum, while increasing breastmilk supply is by filling my menu with:
If you add some of these lactogenic snacks and meals into your menu every day, you will see and increase in supply.
Postpartum Weight Loss While Breastfeeding
There is one struggle that so many moms have postpartum, knowing how to lose the baby weight safely while breastfeeding. Can you even do that? How can you diet and breastfeed? How can you lose the excess weight and not lose your milk supply?
What about losing the baby weight while INCREASING your milky supply?
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Check out my 28 day plan now to help you regain strength postpartum with short effective workouts, increase your milk supply with loads of delicious recipes, and finally lose that excess baby weight at the same time!
Tips for Making Pumpkin Spiced Overnight Oats
This recipe is really easy peasy. That’s why I like overnight oats. It is really easy to combine a whole bunch of great-for-you ingredients into one meal fast! (Also why I’m a huge proponent for smoothies loaded with protein powder safe for breastfeeding mamas.)
- If you are new to overnight oats, you simply measure everything into a jar then top it off with your milk of choice. My favorite is unsweetened vanilla almond milk but feel free to choose another milk if it’s more to your liking.
- Almond milk is loaded with vitamins, is low fat and low calorie, big on flavor, and even good for healthy milk supply. (Almonds are a galactogogue.)
- There is no cooking required in overnight oats and they are served cold. Simply add the jar to the fridge and enjoy for breakfast in the morning!
- You can halve this recipe to make a smaller jar or single serving. This recipe made me a giant jar and when combined with a small smoothie it filled me up for breakfast for 3 days!
Pumpkin Spiced Overnight Oats for Milk Supply
Ingredients
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 2 tbsp. flax seed meal
- 2 tbsp. chia seeds
- 1 large squeeze of liquid stevia (OR 1 tbsp. raw unfiltered honey if sugar is ok)
- 1/2 tsp. pumpkin spice
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
Instructions
- Add all dry ingredients to a large jar.
- Fill the rest of the jar near the top with your pumpkin and milk of choice.
- Stir the ingredients to incorporate the milk.
- Top off with milk.
- Add to the refrigerator overnight.
Is there supposed to be pumpkin in this? Or just the spice?
Oh my gosh yes there should be! Add in a half cup of pumpkin puree. Whoops, thank you so much for drawing that to my attention! Going to fix it right now.