Adrenal Cocktail Powder aka Singing Canary Dry Mix

Are you feeling stressed out of just plain exhausted? This Adrenal Cocktail Powder, aka Singing Canary Dry Mix is just what you need.

What’s a Singing Canary, you ask?

Hint: We’re not talking about a real bird here, but you’re going to feel like singing after drinking this.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

No–it’s a drink!

The Singing Canary is the name of a drink developed by the ladies behind the Trim Healthy Mama eating plan. It’s basically a blend of lemons, turmeric, and a few other things and is designed to support your adrenals. In fact, it has quite a few ingredients that are considered to be healthy foods for adrenal support.

Support for Your Adrenals

There are so many people talking about adrenal fatigue these days–I think it’s rampant. People are wiped out way beyond typical tiredness. I had a bad case of it, but thankfully I’ve done a lot to heal and I’m doing pretty well these days.

But I’m always looking for more support. My life is still quite stressful from time to time and with all of the toxins in our lives, it’s crucial to do whatever we can to support our bodies for good overall health.

So in the interest of supporting my adrenals, I started making the Singing Canary. I liked it, but I had a bit of a hard time with the heavy turmeric taste and kept adding more and more stevia to it. Which is fine, because I really sincerely like stevia and have learned a few tricks to get over the sometimes problematic bitter taste of stevia.

However, I thought I’d monkey around with the ingredients to see what I could come up with to make it a bit tastier. I ended up with this new version of the Singing Canary and well, I love it.

Make that WE love it since my youngest is always stealing sips from me. Ahem.

Anyhow, I love the drink, but it is a bit of a bother to put each of the ingredients into the blender one by one.

You know how that goes….1/4 teaspoon of this, 1/2 teaspoon of that….it’s all simple stuff but when you have to do it every day it starts taking up quite a bit of time.

I mean, I’m busy.

So I thought, why not make an adrenal cocktail powder so I can whip this up easily anytime.

How this Adrenal Cocktail Mix Saves Time

Now, instead of spending a ton of time measuring and scooping each ingredient (that’s NINE scoops), you can just measure once and be done with it.

And each scoop saved means a lot of time saved, because if you’re not doing what I shared in my Saving Time with Measuring Tools post, then you really are spending a lot of time.

Think about it….scoop-scoop-scoop-scoop—It’s fun (at least it is for me) the first time that I make a new recipe, but when you’re making it every day, scooping gets old. Fast.

I have a few time-saving tips on my blog including Baking in Bulk, How to Save Time and Money Cooking Pasta, Saving Time with Measuring Tools, and Saving Time with a Dehydrator.

And of course, there’s the Vitamix, which is a HUGE time-saving tool for any whole foods kitchen. We use ours multiple times a day. Totally worth saving up for in my book to purchase at the link above or on Amazon.

You just mix all of these dry ingredients together, store in a tight-lidded jar, get your Singing Canary Dry Mix out every morning, put some of the powder in the blender, add the wet ingredients, and blend away your adrenal struggles!

Duh – why hadn’t I thought of this sooner?

What’s the Best Protein Powder?

For starters, please buy organic protein powder if you can afford to.  Many of the foods that protein powders are made from are heavily doused with pesticides–so choose wisely!

There are other good options, but this protein powder is super creamy and delicious and this link gets $10 off. It’s garbanzo based but is tested for pesticides and the company is very transparent. Their products are developed to support the gut-brain axis which is known to help manage stress, so that makes this a really great choice, especially for this recipe.

If using another vegan protein powder, I highly recommend using organically sourced. Many of the ingredients in vegan protein powders are crops that many pesticides are used on. This organic vegan protein powder is a solid choice but note it can cause digestive upset for some people.

One of the best protein powders out there is Equip. It’s made from grass-fed beef and that’s about it. This company is top notch with unsurpassed quality.

Recipe Notes

This singing canary concentrate is easily adaptable for special diets.

• You can use collagen protein instead of a protein powder, however collagen is lacking tryptophan so you might want to add that to your diet if you choose to do that.
• For AIP, use the collagen protein option or Equip protein powder (use code WHOLENEWMOM to get 15% off your first order) and substitute organic mace for nutmeg.
• You can choose to use less Vitamin C for this recipe if you like. If doing so, you should scale down the amount of the concentrate used by 1/4 teaspoon or so.
• I recommend using sodium ascorbate for this recipe. Other vitamin Cs have different properties. One thing that I like about sodium ascorbate is that it is pretty well tolerated and not acidic so you can buy it in bulk and use it for other purposes where you wouldn’t want the acidity, as in this DIY Swim Spray.
• This is a “fuel pull” for those on the Trim Healthy Mama plan.
• Vitamin C Alternatives: You can use another whole food powder or this Homemade Vitamin C powder is a great option as well.

So now that you have this Singing Canary Concentrate ready, you can make this adrenal cocktail any day you like–or even each and every day. No more scooping and scooping and scooping.

You can spend your time sipping and healing instead.

Your adrenals and your schedule will thank you.

Have you tried the Singing Canary / Adrenal Cocktail yet?
What did you think about it?