#oatbox

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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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