A better way to deal with consuming powder supplements?

I did the bare essential stack with a modification to take both 100mg doses of Pygeum at once to save time and because it makes no difference it seems.

(1) Lecithin powder, 1200mg Strength, Taken 1 time daily = 1200mg
(2) Pygeum powder, Taken 1 time daily = 200mg
(3) Zinc, 50mg Strength, Taken 1 time daily = 50mg

I stopped after a month and saw success, and I’m ready to restart again. But last time it was very messy:

Zinc tablets was fine with water as long as I gulped quickly (it tastes terrible), but the powder was always messy. Scooping them daily was annoying and left little powder dust easily over my desk (I have to keep all the ingredients near me), but it was better than trying to use pill containers for powders (even messier to get all the powder out). Initially I tried to swallow the two powders straight, but it didn’t go well and felt like I did a mini cinnamon powder challenge. Later I tried to mix it thoroughly with water, but I couldn’t stand the taste and texture that well with every sip and gulp. Lastly I decided to throw each scoop into a cup of water and, without mixing, just immediately gulp water and swallow the floating blobs of powder before they had time to diffuse and make the rest of the water unpalatable.

I know this is pretty much 1st world problems, but I’m curious if anyone has some better or ingenious way to deal with these same issues? Hopefully any solutions in this thread can help others who are really into supplements or perhaps can’t stand the taste and texture like me.

Curious why you are taking powder form when these are readily available in pills?

Power is often much cheaper. It adds up if you’re taking very much.

I bought a #3 capsule loading setup and a big bag of #3 capsules for about $40; I load my own now. The loading setup is a set of blocks and cover plates; you drop a handful of empty capsules in one, shake them until all the smaller ends go into the holes, correct the two or three that go in bassackwards, then load the block with the larger halves. Then dump your powder in the bottom block, use the scraper to swish it around and fill the halves, swing the top block over, and use the pronged block to press them together. Much simpler than it sounds, though there are several pieces and steps.

FYI, #2 capsules (the larger ones) were much cheaper, and so was the loader. I guess it’s a more common size.

I take them my protein shakes. So at the start of each week, I measure out all the different powders and put them in a small Tupperware dish for each day along with the protein powder. This keeps me from having to individually scoop each powder every single day. Then when that day comes, I just open that day’s Tupperware, plop it in one of those protein ball shaker things, shake it then slam it. It still tastes gross, but if you find a protein powder that tastes halfway decent, it will mask most of the supplements.