Get Well Gifts

SOUPS

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Annie Chun’s Chinese Chicken Soup Bowl is the ultimate winter comfort food, featuring organic chicken broth mingled with premium, fresh cooked Hokkien noodles topped with carrots, corn and shiitake mushrooms. This soup is 100 percent natural and has no MSG or preservatives.

Price:  $3.49/5.5-ounce bowl
Website: anniechun.com

Kettle Cuisine’s Gluten-Free Chicken Noodle Soup is all-natural and so good, it tastes like your grandmother made it. Kettle Cuisine’s entirely gluten-free line features natural chicken and beef raised without antibiotics. The savory stocks are made from scratch in the Kettle Cuisine kitchen. They arrive frozen—just heat and eat.

Price:  $4.59/10-ounce package
Website: kettlecuisine.com

HONEY

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Honey is a natural remedy for a sore throat. Bee Raw Honey’s 9 Varietal Honey Flight offers an elegant honey tasting from around the country. Each 1-ounce vial is hand-corked and sealed with beeswax, and comes from a specific floral source. A detailed description of each flavor and origin is included and wrapped in a ribbon-wrapped gift box.  

Price:  $78 with oak block
Website: bee-raw.com
 

Big Island Bees’ Gourmet Organic Hawaiian Honey Gift Set includes three jars of organic honey, including Ohia-Lehua Blossom, organic Wilelaiki Blossom and Macadamia Nut Blossom. These bees take full advantage of the Big Island’s biodiversity, providing an assortment of subtle flavors from the rare blossoms found on the slopes of Mauna Kea to the southern shores of Honu‘apo Bay. 

Price:  $18/3 4.5-ounce jars
Website: bigislandbees.com

TEA

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A trio of caffeine-free teas will get you on the road to recovery. Revolution Tea’s Herbal Tea Collection includes one 16-count box each of: Honeybush Caramel Tea, a rooibos tea, which provides more antioxidants than green tea and gives this blend its soothing properties; Southern Mint Herbal Tea, made from whole Egyptian mint leaves that help to combat headaches and aid in digestion; and Golden Chamomile Herbal Tea, a delicious blend of whole Egyptian chamomile flowers, marigold flowers and peppermint leaf.

Price:  $13.47
Website: revolutiontea.com

Tisano Chocolate Tea makes sipping tea while sick a real treat. This organic and herbal tea is made from the delicate fibrous shell around the cacao bean, which is high in antioxidants and physicochemical properties, making it ideal for a health boost. The chocolate element of this tea not only tastes great but contains proteins, fats, carbohydrates, fiber, iron, zinc, copper, calcium and magnesium.

Price:  $14.95/4-ounce tin
Website: eastblufftrading.com

GINGER

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For an upset stomach, order up some soothing ginger. Ginger People’s Ginger Soother is made with prized Chinese yellow ginger, honey, lemon and natural flavor. Said to soothe the throat and stomach, warm the internal organs, and ease nausea and ailments such as colds and headaches, ginger is also a powerful antioxidant with more than 12 constituents claimed to be superior to vitamin E. And it helps neutralize free radicals, widely recognized as being a common cause of inflammation.

Price:  $4/32-ounce bottle
Website: gingerpeople.com

For good measure, throw in a tin of Ginger People’s Ginger Chews. These tasty golden chunks of spicy-sweet, premium-cut crystallized ginger are made from baby ginger harvested at the peak of its flavor and sweetened with cane sugar.

Price:  $2.39/3-ounce bag
Website: gingerpeople.com

YOGURT

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It’s not a food you normally think of when you’re sick, but yogurt contains probiotics, which have been found to shorten a cold or flu by almost two days, according to a German study. Choose ones that contain the bacterial strains Lactobacillus casei or Lactobacillus reuteri, since these two are the ones linked to improving immune response. Many Greek yogurts contain 10 grams of protein per serving, making them an ideal choice. Look for The Greek Gods Traditional Yogurt (greekgodsyogurt.com), Chobani (chobani.com), and Voskos (voskos.com).