The kind of patchy weather we’re having usually brings the fever and flu bug. It’s blazing a 90+ degrees outside right through midday and then the skies cloud over, bringing the downpours and cooling down the nights to the 70+’s.

My three kids were all down with the fever and flu recently. Between the hot days and cool nights, it’s the ‘heatiness’ (internal body heat) that causes the fever, coughs, runny noses and sore throats.

Honey soothes sore and scratchy throats and cools the body system. You’ll be surprised how kids who won’t drink water can so easily be sweet-talked into drinking honey instead.

And to perk things up, you can add a squeeze of lemon or lime and some ice for a cool, refreshing drink. One of my favorites .

Then there’s this cooling herbal ‘hor yan hor’ tea that I used to drink as a kid whenever the weather got hot. It used to be something that had to be boiled. Now it comes conveniently in tea bags for busy moms like me.

It’s black and bitter and kids have to be threatened or bribed into even going near it. I made myself a cup to drink this morning just as a precaution, in case I caught the flu from my kids.

Then of course, if you prefer to imagine you’re laying on the beach under a palm tree sipping a fresh coconut instead, this is the very thing.

Here’s the convenient huskless (or commonly called the ‘bald’) version where the grocery guy has done all the donkey work of hacking away the hard husk and artfully scraping out the silky white sheet of meat for you.

If you buy the one in the original coconut husk, it feels more authentic, sure! But you have to reach into the husk and scrape out the meat yourself and then dispose of the coconut shell when you’re done drinking.

Cheers and may the Flu Fighter be with you!

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