{"id":2003,"date":"2011-12-06T20:25:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2011-12-06T20:25:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T20:25:15","slug":"battling-cold-and-flu-before-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/06\/battling-cold-and-flu-before-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Battling cold and flu BEFORE it begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since winter is just about upon us, I wanted to share what we did last year that seemed to have worked to ward off any colds and\/or flues. I say it seemed to have worked because I didn&#8217;t get a cold at ALL last year, and this is what I did to try and prevent it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.smugmug.com\/photos\/1001272521_8h2Mx-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Every single time I started to get even a hint of a sore throat, I&#8217;d eat some minced garlic. It was really easy too, since we have our smoothy in the morning and it&#8217;s real thick, I&#8217;d just put a bit of smoothy on a spoon, put about 1\/2 a tsp of garlic on that, then cover it up with more smoothy and swallow it REAL quick. I couldn&#8217;t even really taste it, at all, and I never noticed any stinking like garlic like I expected we would. Ha! No one wants to walk around smelling like a garlic clove!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.smugmug.com\/photos\/1001272863_4K2ED-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\nThen we&#8217;d drink lemon juice in our water.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And, we never got any colds AND, those two items (minced garlic &amp; lemon juice) are relatively inexpensive overall, compared to a lot of stuff that&#8217;s out there to ward of colds. With the garlic and lemon juice, you also know just what you&#8217;re putting into your body, unlike any capsules etc. that may be recommended.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Healthy AND inexpensive. You just can&#8217;t beat that in my opinion!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since winter is just about upon us, I wanted to share what we did last year that seemed to have worked to ward off any colds and\/or flues. I say it seemed to have worked because I didn&#8217;t get a cold at ALL last year, and this is what I did to try and prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/06\/battling-cold-and-flu-before-it-begins\/\">Read more<i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","category-the-homestead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}