Making oatmeal with fruit for breakfast, the day before: recipe for good food?

Making oatmeal with fresh fruit ahead time may not be a good idea. The fruit will most likely get mushy overnight and depending on the fruit you use, it could also turn brown. Also, I would only make oatmeal if I knew this family member ate oatmeal. I often make 2 or 3 days of oatmeal at once, but I add walnuts or pecans and raisins to the water, then when it boils, I add the Old Fashioned oats. I heat the cooked cold oatmeal in the microwave and add a little milk or half and half for creaminess. Thanks to the raisins, the oatmeal does not even need sugar.

You can make the oatmeal ahead of time, reheat it and then add the fresh fruit when you serve the oatmeal.

if you're going to leave it in the refrigerator over night then check recipes for refrigerator oatmeal. no cooking involved.

if you do make refrigerator oatmeal:

1. don't put fresh or frozen fruit in it ahead of time as it will become too mushy. if the person you're making it for doesn't mind mushy fruit then it would be fine but I don't like mushy fruit unless it's in a preserve

2. the oatmeal can be eaten cold or reheated in the microwave. you can add the fruit after it is reheated if you are reheating.

3. if the person you are cooking for doesn't like oatmeal then they won't like it made ahead of time.

If you want to do something easy, try oats and banana balls. Mash some bananas, and mix some oats and sugar together with the mashed banana. Microwave it for 30 seconds, then roll the mixture into little balls. Refrigerate the balls, then drizzle peanut butter or anything else on top.

If all else fails, then yes, oatmeal and fresh fruit is a good breakfast anywhere.