17 Immune Boosting Foods to Keep Your Kids Healthy All Year Round
It’s flu season and you know what that means… germs! So what’s a mama to do when she sends her kid to school and doesn’t want them coming home with colds, bugs, and the flu?
The answer is to naturally build up their immune systems!
You may be asking yourself, “Why does my kid keep getting sick?”
The answer is our magnificent bodies have the ability to fight off harmful invaders on its own. But those soldier anti-bodies need to be strong in order to work effectively.
One of the best ways to keep our bodies healthy and able to fight off infection is to eat healthy immunity-boosting foods. Specifically living foods filled with phytonutrients.
Our kids and ourselves need to be eating as much of these foods as possible and ditching the starchy and sugary snacks and treats as much as possible.
I offer apples, oranges, strawberries, and grapes as snacks instead of allowing them to grab some crackers or a granola bar. If they are still hungry they can have some greek yogurt with granola. Usually, that’s enough to hold them over until the next meal. If I let them choose a snack, they gravitate right to the packaged snacks that I buy to pop in their school lunches as a treat.
Another important way to increase your child’s immunity is to give them a nutritional supplement like a multi-vitamin. Just be careful of all the additives and unnecessary colors that are added to vitamins. There have even been problems with children’s vitamin labels not matching the vitamins inside, resulting in dangerous overdoses in children.
I found these natural vitamin gummies to help keep my kiddos cold-free. My kids had very few colds and no flu during a very harsh flu season last year. And to top it off, I forgot to give them their flu shot!
18 Natural Ways to Boost Your Child’s Immunity
Here are 18 healthy food recipes to keep your kiddos healthy. Use these methods to build their immunity to prevent colds and flu and also use in the event they do catch something to speed their healing and recovery time!
Cold and Flu Prevention
Easy Immune Support Tincture
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Immune Boosting Juice
Cranberry Kefir Fruit Snacks
Homemade Elderberry Syrup
Popeye Smoothie
Source Oh The Things We’ll Make
Immune Boosting Tea
Elderberry Gummies Recipe
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IMMUNE BOOSTER BEET, CARROT & ORANGE JUICE
Cold and Flu Speedy Recovery
Immunity Chicken Soup
Immune-Boosting Friendship Smoothie Bowls
Mineral Rich Electrolyte Smoothie
Grape Juice to Stomp Out Stomach Flu
Tummy Healing Soup for One
Herbal Tea Kool-aid Alternative
Essential Oil Immune Booster Recipes
Natural Vapor Rub
Headache Bath Bombs
7 Oils for Colds
Which recipe are you most excited about trying? These are some super simple and natural ways to help ease the burden of the winter cold season. If you have your own recipe, please share in the comments below!
Brandi dove headfirst into the passionate world of blogging over 7 years ago when she felt inspired to launch FamilyFelicity in 2017. The name Felicity means great happiness and the joys of heaven, which speaks to her vision for the families she desired to impact with this blog over the years. In 2023, she knew it was time to pass the reigns to another passionate mama to continue the work. Brandi is now helping women thrive in their businesses as a copywriter and branding strategist in her new endeavor Thrive Content Creative. She is thrilled to leave FamilyFelicity in the most capable hands and heart. Thank you DayJah!
