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Buckwheat Almond & Honey Granola | Oatbox

[missguomeiyun]

Oatbox oatmeals - reg & overnight

Hello, as promised, I’m sharing my experience with the oatmeals I got from Oatbox!

This is the regular oatmeal - white chocolate & espresso flavour.

I’m not an oatmeal person.. . In fact, I hate everything about it lol just kidding - just the texture. I just don’t like the grainy, slightly slimy(?) texture. Ive tried several kinds & none of them were pleasing. Hopefully this one will be alright since it’s white chocolate + espresso! Like if the flavour is good, then maybe I can ignore the texture.

This one comes with a generous amount of white chocolate chips! It looks promising XD

Got my 1 serving ready.

I microwaved it. O_O Why is the oatmeal so OILY!!!??? WHATTTT?! There’s literally oil floating around. omg. ..

The flavour was very VERY mildly white chocolate / espresso. It just tastes slightly sweetened. I wouldn’t have known it had chocolate or espresso flavour if you didn’t tell me. So the flavour was disappointing :( the texture. .. yeah, EWWWWWW. I was reminded of why I don’t like oatmeal. It was slimy. Yeah.. =/

I mean, I don’t feel like I wasted my money. .. My goal was to try to consume oatmeal for its fibrous properties. I Googled “how you eat oatmeal raw” & apparently you can, so maybe I’ll just eat this product raw like a granola.

Here’s the overnight one. It was/is an online exclusive at the time of purchase. I haven’t gone back to see if it still is. Again, I got it for the flavour. & coworker said she likes overnight ones in general more bcos it’s eaten cold. I’ve never had cold oatmeal before so. .. trying it!

I think this would be a good thing to have when I work night shifts. I eat 6 meals over the 24hrs when I work night shifts. It’s not great but I get hungry & my body is used to eating at those times >.<

Where are the cherries?! You know, after seeing all the white chocolate chips in the regular oatmeal, I was high hopes maybe this one contained a decent amount of dried cherries. But. .. where?

Used one of my kimchi jars as the container. Mainly bcos it has a nice lid & now I can eyeball how much 1/2 cup of liquid is for future-makings.

After 6 hours. (I made it in the morning & this was ready in the afternoon)

Sideview.

Okay, the texture was definitely better than the regular oatmeal!! Not slimy at all! I actually didn’t mind the texture of this one. I think if I under-fridge it, it’d be better. Like instead of 6 hrs, I could maybe do 3-4hrs? Again, I’m planning to eat this during my night shift days. Cold is wayyyyyy better!

As for the flavour. .. almond x cherry? Yeah, no cherry. There were some large chunks of almonds, which was nice! There were some chia seeds, which I didn’t mind either. Altogether, I enjoyed this way more than the regular oatmeal.

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So for several subsequent makings, I’ve actually mixed the white chocolate + espresso oatmeal with this overnight one & then letting it sit overnight in the fridge. The white chocolate chips remained intact (obviously) & I find the combo works really well! I also make it more watery than how it should be lol it’s definitely not thick like the picture. Moving forward, I might throw in some of my coffee granola to it!

[missguomeiyun]

OATBOX

My order came!!!

What is OATBOX?

Oatbox is a Canadian brand (based in QC) that sells organic oats/granolas. They run by a subscription service (once a month, once every 2 months) as well as 1 time purchase & have 3 different ‘box’ options. I’ll go into more detail below!

How did I hear about it?

In 2020 sometime, I talked about being into that iced coffee granola.. . do you remember? I got that from Chapters online & fell in love with it.

Why did I order?

Chapters carried several Oatbox products at the time as well, but I keep going for the iced coffee granola. Then they stopped carrying Oatbox! Even now, they don’t have it anymore. So I began looking elsewhere like Amazon & Well.ca .. so pricey! It wasn’t worth it >.< so I’ve been without the granola for over a yr now. .. Thus I made the decision to order directly from their website. .. but the thing that made me shy away from the website was their box system.. . I just want 1-2 bags, you know? Not more than that....... But I asked my coworkers & they said they’ll try some too so . ..in the end, altogether, we ordered a box of 9 - their biggest box!

The order came in this REALLY nice box :O I was pleasantly surprised!!

^ Screenshot of my order.

So for a box of 9, you get to choose 9 orders of their products. Granolas & oatmeals come in 2 bags of the same flavour per order, whereas the bars are 6 bars per order.

In other words, if you were to order a box of 9 but just the ‘bagged’ products, you’ll end with 18 bags total. Of course, you can order more than 1 order of the flavour if you choose! But I didn’t have any doubles since it was a group order & I guess we all like different things haha.

The 10% discount was a nice surprise. They sent me a follow-up email after I made an account bcos I was a first time customer. The lack of taxes was also surprising! The company is based in QC & I was expecting QC taxes... but no taxes! Therefore, my box of 9, which is originally $92, turned out to be 82.80!

& here are all the products in the box~

I will review the oatmeals I got another time but I just wanted to have a generic post about Oatbox! I think it’s a great idea for sharing purposes. I don’t live the kind the lifestyle where I can picture myself doing monthly or bimonthly subscription boxes of these products. I also like their efficient delivery service even though they’re based on the other side of the country lol

What I dislike about their service is the boxes of 3, 6, & 9. As you may have expected, the box of 9 yields cheaper prices per bag/product - which is fine bcos I’ve come to a conclusion that it’ll be group purchase moving forward. But the concrete box system is not flexible, & I like flexibility when ordering. I don’t like being locked in boxes of 3, 6, or 9 every time AND having 2 bags of the same flavour per order. I guess it has to do with their shipping budget & standardization of boxes. As a consumer, I’d be willing to pay a little more if I can go for variety, you know what I mean? So yeah. .. that’s the downside. It’d be best to order as a group purchase & trade flavours with your group.

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[horriblytwistedlifeofjb]

Rien n'est plus parfait que parfait. 😄 Boy, I love @oatbox! #oatbox #oatboxlifestyle

[1200adayok]

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[1200adayok]

🥣 Oatbox Haul 🥣 I got my oatbox this month! I finished the strawberry turmeric from last month and I’m still working on the coconut one. These are great to bring to work and eat for breakfast with some yogurt. This month I got Pear and Red Quinoa and Almond and Mango. There’s freeze dried fruit inside both granolas. I’m excited to try them out. They both sound great and very nutritious. Oatbox is a great Canadian brand (they ship to the US too). The granolas are organic too. It’s $15 per box which is not too bad. Please follow the link for $5 off your first box. :) http://oatb.co/q30cgu00ea 🥣 #oatbox #subscriptionbox #oats #oatmeal #granola #organic #organicgranola #Canadianblogger #cereal #oatmealbowl #oatmealporn #oatsovernight

[1200adayok]

My breakfast this morning was next level. Best breakfast I've had in a long time. -1 small banana -1 vanilla activia yogurt -1/2 cup strawberry turmeric granola If you're interested in Oatbox please use my referral link for $5 off: http://oatb.co/q30cgu00ea