Salad in A Jar

Steel Cut Oats in a Jar for the person who asked...

Bring 5 cups of water to a boil.
Add 1 1/4 c steel cut oats.
Boil for 5 minutes (or until it starts to thicken a bit)
Turn heat to low and cook, covered, for minimum of 30 minutes.
Portion into five wide mouth pint jars.
This makes a little more "creamy" textured oatmeal.

Alternatively,
Bring 5 cups of water to a boil.
Add 1 1/4 c steel cut oats.
Boil for 5 minutes (or until it starts to thicken a bit).
Portion into five wide mouth pint jars.
This makes a little more "chewy" textured oatmeal.

Add fruit, nuts/protein powder, and 1/2-3/4 c milk (soy or cow is usually what I do, because they have more protein than almond or rice milks and I have difficulty getting enough protein)

My current favorite way to eat this is to add 1/4 cup berries (blueberries, strawberries, or raspberries), 1 scoop of vanilla protein powder, 3/4 c soy milk. Pro tip: put the soy milk in before the protein powder if you want it to soak into the oats. Put it in after if you want to be able to stir it in manually the morning of.

Some "flavors" to try:
-banana walnut or banana hazelnut (can also add a few craisins-dried cranberries- to this if you like the contrast of tart and sweet)
-berry (blueberry, strawberry, or raspberry) walnut, berry almond, berry hazelnut
-apple pecan or apple walnut with cinnamon and nutmeg
-"praline" (pecans + brown sugar... I find this to be too sweet for my tastes these days)
-craisin hazelnut or craisin pecan


ETA: I didn't make salad in a jar this week. I made soup instead and I'm finding that its not as appealing as salad in a jar. I'm convinced this works for me!

Yummy! Thanks for reminding me about avocados! I don't usually think to put them in a jar.

Grated beets are raw in my salads just because its most convenient that way for me.

I imagine you could use cooked or canned if you had them handy and/or needed softer beets.