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A round-up of 25 Cold and Flu-Busting Recipes to get you back to your optimal health in no-time. These all-natural remedies will help clear up your sickness straight from your kitchen.
Did anyone else think that we were just going to get really lucky and bypass winter all together this year? Unfortunately Winter is making it’s explosive and unfashionably late entrance right about NOW, leaving many of us with a surprise case of the sniffles. We all know the feeling way too well, itchy throat, drippy nose, and those chills (sans Netflix), that make you want to crawl into bed until winter is over.
Now, I am no doctor (despite diligently watching every epi of Grey’s Anatomy), but I am all for being proactive- boosting your immune system by fuelling up on superfoods and antioxidant rich eats! We have rounded up all the frigid fixes for this blustery season, so that you can enjoy sweater weather, germ free. In fact these recipes, remedies and elixirs will have you channeling your inner Elsa, revelling in all the glory of winter, because the cold never bothered you, anyway!
25 Cold + Flu-Busting Recipes
Detox Vegetable Soup
Too often is soup overlooked for its detoxing abilities and delicious flavor. Ditch the salads this season and reach for a bowl of this healthy vegetable soup recipe! Bring on the healthful goodness with this delicious & hearty soup detox!
How To Make Green Juice In Your Blender
Don’t have a juicer? No problem! You can have green juice in minutes with this step-by-step tutorial on how to make green juice in your blender in just two basic steps. All you need is a high-speed blender and some cheesecloth.
Turmeric Latte [Golden Milk Latte]
Looking to jumpstart your day with a delicious alternative to coffee? This turmeric latte recipe is made with traditional and wholesome ingredients including rich spices. It is cozy, creamy and ready in less than 5 minutes.
Instant Pot Bone Broth
Boost your immune system and get an extra dose of collagen with this easy-to-make tutorial for Instant Pot Bone Broth. Learn how to make bone broth in your pressure cooker using food scraps and leftover ingredients to give your food a second life!
My Go-To Healing Bowl
Feeling a little under the weather or in need of a good immune-boost for cold and flu season? This is my go-to healing bowl full of healthy ingredients like mushrooms, miso, chicken broth and veggies.
Hot Chocolate with Superfoods
This hot chocolate made with superfoods is packed-full of immune-boosting, antioxidant-filled ingredients that make for one heck of cup of hot cocoa! From coconut, to turmeric and the sweetness of raw honey, this is a hot chocolate recipe you can feel good about drinking.
The Ultimate Immune-Boosting Soup [Vegan]
Feeling under the weather? Kick that cold or flu to the curb with the ultimate immune-boosting soup. Packed full of vitamins and minerals from delicious ingredients like turmeric, kale and bok choy in a mushroom broth for a healthy vegetarian soup recipe.
Acai Bowl Recipe
Start your morning off right with this healthy açai bowl recipe! Learn how to make an acai bowl from scratch using fresh and frozen ingredients and your blender.
Cucumber Lemon Spa Water
Looking for the ultimate infused water recipe? This cucumber water recipe is the answer! Learn how to make cucumber water with the perfect water to cucumber ratio so you can enjoy spa water at home, every day!
How To Make Bone Broth In Your Slow Cooker
Learn how to make bone broth in your slow cooker, the hottest trend in the food world! It requires minimal ingredients and steps but a whole lot of patience as your house fills with the delicious scent of homemade broth.
Lemon Raspberry Chia Pudding
This Lemon Raspberry Chia Pudding makes a refreshing and healthy snack recipe made with fresh or frozen berries and sweetened with just a touch of honey! It also is a great dessert for one or for guests!
How To Make Homemade Kombucha
Brewing your own kombucha is not as hard as it seems! This tutorial will walk you through how to make kombucha and customize it to the flavors of your liking.
Slow-Cooker Chicken Soup
The easiest chicken soup you’ll ever make! Just throw a whole chicken into a slow cooker and top with veggies for a full meal-in-one.
Antioxidant Ice Cubes
Spruce up your drinks with these sweet and refreshing Antioxidant Ice Cubes. They’re packed full of antioxidants and flavor from berries and green tea. You’ll never go back to ordinary ice cubes again!
Cold Busting Pineapple Smoothie
Packed full of goodness with tropical flavours mixed in. This cold busting pineapple smoothie will help send cold germs packing.
Throat-Soothing Chamomile Ginger Popsicles
Calming chamomile, tangy ginger, sweet honey, and tart lemons are classic ingredients to ingest when battling a head cold, and mixing them together in popsicle form not only helps with a scratchy throat, they’re fun to eat, too!
Clear Onion Soup w/ Carrot Noodles
An easy and vegan onion soup recipe packed full of veggies and made to help boost your immune system!
Honey Ginger Lemonade Health Tonic
Part tasty drink and part heath tonic, this Honey Ginger Lemonade is the perfect option for sipping on when you’re fighting a cold.
Feel-Good Veggie Soup
This Feel Good Detox Soup recipe is a quick and hearty vegetarian soup (with a protein option) perfect to help kick a cold or sickness that arises! It’s freezer-friendly, loaded with flavor, and packed with immune boosting ingredients.
Orange Creamsicle Smoothie
Looking for the orange smoothie of your dreams? Try our magical vitamin C-packed Orange Creamsicle Smoothie. You only need 3 ingredients + a few nummy add-ins!
Chicken Noodle Soup w/ Zucchini Noodles
This easy, flavorful, and healthy Keto Chicken No Noodle Soup uses zucchini noodles! It’s gluten free, low carb and packed with protein!
All Natural Pineapple Cough Syrup
All natural pineapple cough syrup is easy to make and is a time honored home remedy to fight colds and flu, but does it work? Let’s find out!
Hearty Lentil & Swiss Chard Soup
A comforting bowl of Hearty Lentil and Swiss Chard Soup can warm up your body and soul through the fall and winter months. The perfect healthy soup recipe!
Bonfire Cider
Bonfire Cider is a cozy and refreshing fall cocktail. Apple cider is spiked with cinnamon flavored whiskey and topped with vanilla bubbly! Makes 1 cocktail but can easily be doubled.
Immune Boosting Grapefruit Juice
Red grapefruits, strawberries and ginger are some of our favorite ingredients, and they are also good for strengthening the immune system. We mixed them all into a sharp red-colored juice.
i love how there is little bit of everything to fight off that nasty cold..i could use some popsicles right now.
This is perfect timing! I’m currently fighting something. It’s just starting and I’m trying to get ahead of it.
Sorry to hear you’re fighting something! Hopefully you find something in here that will help you!
I love the vegetable soups, including your detox soup and vegan butternut squash soup!
You know I live off soups so I whole-heartedly agree 🙂
Brilliant collection Davida. You have some gems of recipes there. Thanks for including one of mine
Of course! Your recipe looks fantastic!
Perfect timing since my family’s just come down with a bug 🙁 These recipes look good for all winter long – awesome roundup!
oh no!!! I’m sorry to hear something has been going around. Hope one or several of these recipes help you guys out!
What a great resource! Thank you for sharing!
Thank YOU!! Your recipe looks amazing 🙂