Overnight Oats - How did I screw it up?

I do 1/4 cup Greek yogurt, 1/4 cup oats, 1/3 cup milk (I use almond milk), then my add-ins such as honey and fruit. My guess is that you had too much yogurt and no sweetener of any kind. Since the Greek yogurt is what you're finding too tangy, if you're going to add in protein powder, you may not need as much Greek yogurt. It serves 2 purposes, one it acts as a thickener, but it's also there to bump the protein content. Bottom line, either it or the powder may not be entirely necessary.

You might be able to adapt one of these to get what you were looking for:
http://www.theyummylife.com/Refrigerator_Oatmeal

I think the other poster was right, either yogurt or protein powder. Greek yogurt is extra tangy though, I use a packet of stevia and, or, applesauce to sweeten.

This is how I do mine:

1 cup of rolled oats
1 cup of skim milk
1 tablespoon honey [or to taste]
1 apple, diced
1 banana, sliced thin
2 tablespoons greek yogurt
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/8 cup toasted, sliced almonds
Soak the oats overnight in enough milk to cover them. In the morning, most of the milk will have been absorbed by the oats. Stir, then add in the yogurt, honey, and fresh fruit. Mix to combine. Add dried fruit and nuts. Taste and add more honey if necessary. Serves 2.

Here's my recipe! I don't use yogurt. That's probably what you found unpleasant.

- 1/3 c oats
- 2/3 c vanilla soymilk
- 1 tbsp chia seeds

Sometimes I add a scoop of protein powder or some cocoa powder. And I eat it with chopped fruit and nut butter, or with banana soft serve. Way too decadent for breakfast!!!! Sometimes I can't believe I'm eating something healthy haha

The original recipe I used for Overnight Oats included Greek yogurt. I hated it, precisely because of the tanginess... I just don't enjoy that in my oatmeal. Omitting the yogurt made a huge difference for me. You could try that, or if you really want to have yogurt in the morning, I'd just cut back the amount.

I use the overnight oats recipe from Skinny Taste as a base recipe and just switch up fruits/flavors:

1/4 cup quick oats
1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk (or skim, soy)
1/4 medium banana, sliced (freeze the rest for smoothies!)
1/2 tbsp chia seeds
1/2 cup blueberries
4-5 drops NuNaturals liquid vanilla stevia (or your favorite sweetener)
pinch cinnamon

Can you use any type of porridge oats to make this?

I hated it the first time I tried it. Goes to reason though that since I hate plain greek yogurt that I would hate overnight oats with plain greek yogurt in it! So I started adding flavored greek yogurt and sometimes regular yogurt instead. Some recipes were so so, but I've found a couple that I love. My favorite at the moment:

1/4 cup rolled oats
1.5 tsp chia seeds
1/4 cup fat free milk
6oz vanilla greek yogurt (1 container)
1/2 cup sliced strawberries

Another one I like uses strawberry greek yogurt and bananas or fat free wildberry crumbcake yogurt (publix brand) with blueberries. Keep trying!

Edit: the vanilla strawberry recipe above has 274 calories and 22g of protein!

You need to adda sweetner, because the greek yoghurt is very sharp and the other ingredients take on the flavour of it as they are bland, made the same mistake myself

i use vanilla greek yogurt, not as tangy as the plain. I also prefer Dannon Okios sweeter than Chobani vanilla.

bump for all the good suggestions