Everyday Energy Shots!
A Fair & Honest Energy Drink Review
Everyday Energy Shots! Retail Package Description
Everyday Energy Shots! Comes in a box that's not unlike a Theraflu cold medicine box. It's 4.25 inches tall, about 3 3/8 inches wide, and about 1.5 inches deep. The top is closed with a sticker and can be opened by cutting the sticker, or you can open it on the perforations and have a little packet dispenser. The bottle is mostly yellow, with sun rays, which is fitting, because the product tastes like lemons. On a blue strip along the top it reads, "Energy, mental focus, sugar free", the middle of the box has a picture of lemons and limes with a green flag that reads, "Great Lemon-Lime flavor" (and for once someone isn't lying). Then, in blue with white outline, "Everyday", darker blue, larger letters, "Energy", then in a batman "bam" starburst, "Shots!". There's a little syringe-looking bit that reads, "Keeping you focused and energized". Under that, "Containing a special blend of vitamins and herbs to help give you hours of energy and mental focus". In the bottom left is a picture of a bottle that reads, "Reusable Shot Bottle Included!". On the bottom right, "Energy Shot Powder, 10 convenient stick packs, 10 - 2.0g (0.07 ounce) Stick Packs / Dietary Supplement."
Everyday Energy Shot! Has the most text of any drink ever, on the side, they promote the product, it reads:
Everyday Energy Shots is the first energy shot powder that combines energy and mental performance boosting ingredients into the best energy shot available, period.
Steady Energy w/ No Crash
Everyday Energy Shots give you a steady release of energy from our proprietary energy blend. These energy bossting ingredients, including green tea leaf extract, metabolize at different rates and give you instant energy that lasts and lasts.
Mental Performance Powerhouse
To help you succeed and focus we've included mental boosting herbs that are so effective they are often sold individually for a mental boosting effect. With our powerful proprietary herbal blend you get unrivaled memory, focus and cognition.
A Unique Alternative
Unline other energy products, Everyday Energy Shots is perfect for incorporating into daily life. You can add any liquid to the shot bottle that you like - water, sports drink, OJ, soda, anything!
If you don't have the shot bottle handy, you can add the powder to the last few sips of a water bottle, sport drink or other beverage for an instant shot. Plus you can add the powder to a smoothie in the morning; your glass of juice or any other drink you like and still get all of the benefits of the ingredients.
Because of our unique packaging, Everyday Energy is more environmentally friendly because the shot bottle is reusable (can be placed in the dishwasher or hand washed). Having a single shot already measured out in a light and sealed stick pack allows you to easily keep a supply of stick packs any place you like - at home, at work, in your purse, in a book bag or briefcase, in the car, etc.
Energy You Can Trust
Ingredients used in our product are either found naturally or are organic and generally recognized as safe. Our product is manufactured in an FDA inspected, cGMP compliant facility under the most rigid safety and quality assurance standards.
It also contains the standard warning for age, medical conditions, pregnant/nursing, etc. Otherwise, don't drink more than 2 a day, several hours apart.
Caffeine Addict's Everyday Energy Shots! Review
We don't usually review mixes, but Everyday Energy Shots! Is really just 10 dehydrated energy shots in a box. Each $20 kit comes with a 2fl.oz. Bottle and 10 2g mix packs that look like the Crystal Lights sticks.
I've been traveling with my laptop a good deal lately. It's easy to jam a handful of these packets in my 5-year-old laptop bag in the otherwise empty cell phone pocket, which was apparently designed for a Razr phone, and would never accommodate my HTC Evo. Convenient, since I can carry the bottle in my pocket. Unfortunately, airport security gives you strange looks while questioning if you're transporting 2fl.oz. Of your own urine.
You see, the Everyday Energy Shot! Bottle, looks a good deal like a miniature pee test bottle from the doctor's office. Functionally, this is because you want the large lid for putting in the packet, and a clear bottle to know if the mix is thoroughly dissolved. Practically, since the lemon-lime mix looks just like tinkle, drinking this in public gives the appearance of some urban application of Man Vs. Wild. Enjoying this with an unwrapped Baby Ruth might temporarily land you in the mental ward.
Since everyone knows people drink their own urine, this is really sort of a mute point. Misplacing the bottle or losing it is more of a realistic problem. Thankfully, you've probably got 20 5-hour energy shot bottles rolling around in the floorboard of your car. That's probably where your Everyday Energy Shot! Bottle is. I know it's where I found mine.
The taste is superior to any other shot or mix I've ever had. My biggest complaint with shots is that they are usually thick, and the aftertaste of artificial sweetener lingers for what literally seems like an eternity. My problem with mixes is that they are usually chalky, and also are often wrought with a heavy-handed artificially sweetened hand. Everyday Energy Shot! Suffers from neither of these problems. It's tart like lemon, not bitter like caffeine. It goes down so smoothly that I could enjoy it as a drink. As for the grittiness, there is none, I shake mine for about 30 seconds, look through the clear plastic of the mini-pee cup to see if anything is undissolved, if so, I keep on shaking, if not, I enjoy.
I have no problems with the effectiveness of Everyday Energy Shot! I'd say it's on par with the vast sea of $3 store-bought shots.
Fortunately, there are more advantages. The packaging suggests mixing it with a fruit smoothie or adding it to the last few oz of a sports drink or soda. I like to add it to lemon garlic chicken and broccoli. Lastly, while other bottles are recyclable, if you're environmentally conscious, nothing beats reusing the same bottle.
What should be an advantage, exploited to its fullest potential by the manufacturer, is that this entire package is about the same size and weight as a 72 pack of Claritin. While this is an obvious foothold to offer free shipping and maintain a profit at a reasonable retail price, which is impractical for energy shots, and nearly impossible for energy drinks, they want $7 to ship a tiny 8oz. box, and that brings the price to $2.70 per shot.
Energy Junkie's Everyday Energy Shots! Review
Some people will say that the taste of Everyday Energy Shot is too tart, they, of course, are wrong. Everyday Energy has a delightful lemon flavor, which is sweetened with sucralose, but not to an extent I would call it lemonade flavor.
As Jason stated in his review, the small bottle and the mix sticks are rather convenient, but one has to convince the general public to pony up $20 and commit to drinking 10 servings. You see, energy shots are a lot like cigarettes. Everyone knows you get the best price buying by the carton, yet, perhaps in an attempt to deny helpless addiction, they buy by the pack. So, while it's obviously less convenient to stop every day, or every other day and buy a 5-hour energy at the gas station or drug store, people will invariably do that.
To compound the problems of getting this delicious energy shot into the hands of the masses, people are lazy, so washing out a bottle and shaking a packet into water is a daunting task like wiping thoroughly, or applying deodorant. Lastly, since the packaging looks like a flu relief product, unless people read (nearly as daunting as the aforementioned) the label, it's likely they will never even comprehend that this is a 5-hour energy alternative, and disregard it subconsciously.
Based on the claims on the packaging, this shot is actually better than 5-hour energy. So, along with having several servings at the ready, it's also better. One thing we've learned from beating our heads against the wall over Red Bull vs. Monster, is that people don't care if it's bigger and better...because it's not Red Bull. Accordingly, any argument about this being better than 5-hour energy will be met with the every-so-insightful rebuttal, "but it's not 5-hour energy".
Where I think this product should win out is a combination of price and convenience. This is the SodaStream (formerly Soda Club) business model. While Everyday Energy has the convenience sorted out, I feel like the price point is way too high, even if you get this in the store for the MSRP, it's still 2/3 of the price of just buying 5-hour energy. If you buy it from the website, the savngs are marginal at best.