A sharp little wheatgrass morning shot

What you need

• 1 level teaspoon (4g) wheatgrass powder
• ½ a fresh lemon
• A thin slice of fresh ginger, or a small pinch of ground
• About 150ml cold water — this one drinks best small
• A shaker bottle if you have one; a glass and a brisk stir if not

How to make it

1

Measure

One level teaspoon straight from the pouch — the full 4g daily serve. First week? Start with half; the grassy note softens on you quicker than you’d expect. For ages 5–12, half a teaspoon is the measure.

2

Shake it cold

Into the shaker with the cold water — lid on, ten good shakes. Cold is what makes wheatgrass dissolve clean instead of clumping, and it keeps the flavour bright rather than heavy. No shaker? Water first, powder second, thirty seconds of proper stirring.

3

Lemon and ginger

Squeeze in the half lemon and drop in the ginger. This is what turns a green drink into a morning shot — sharp, clean, slightly warming. The lemon helps beyond taste too: its vitamin C gives the iron in wheatgrass a hand with absorption.

4

Drink it first thing

Pour it small and drink it fresh, about half an hour before breakfast. That’s the whole habit — a bright green start before the day gets a say.

“Small glass, cold water, no ceremony.”

Make it yours

• Softer — swap the water for chilled apple juice; the grassiness settles right into it
• Rounder — a teaspoon of maple syrup if the shot lands too sharp at first
• Bigger — stretch the same teaspoon into a full 300ml glass; milder, same serve
• For kids (5–12) — half a teaspoon, apple juice, skip the ginger

Good to know

Drink it freshly made — like all our greens it settles as it stands, and a shot this small is gone before that matters. If one pouch pours a shade greener than the last, that’s the nature of a single-ingredient powder: nothing added, nothing evened out.