With cold season approaching quickly, I am so excited to partner with Safeway to share with you one of my favorite recipes to help you feel better. While this post is sponsored, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

When you have two kids in school and regularly commute to work using public transportation, colds and other viruses become all too familiar. I love my kids but they are like little germ machines during cold and flu season and this mama always seems to bear the brunt of it. When I catch that first inevitable cold, I always head straight to Safeway to stock up on Signature Care™ products and ingredients for my cold busting lemon chicken soup. Safeway is so convenient to my daughter’s gymnastics practice (where we spend 10+ hours per week) and I know I can always find high quality ingredients and friendly faces at the store.

Safeway carries its exclusive line of effective and affordable products known as Signature Care, which provide the same quality and relief that national name brands do but at a better value. Plus they come with a 100& satisfaction guaranteed or your money back promise. In the Washington, DC and Northern VA area, Signature Care products are available exclusively at Safeway, but you can find them your area at ACME Markets, Albertsons, Jewel-Osco, Vons, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Shaw’s, Star Market, United Express, United and Carrs/Safeway. While I am shopping for my Signature Care products, I also pick up O Organics® ingredients to make my fantastic cold busting lemon chicken soup. It is the perfect companion to the medicine to get me feeling
better in no time.

Ingredients for Cold Busting Lemon Chicken Soup:

1 Tbsp butter
1 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 stalks O Organics celery, sliced
4 O Organics carrots, peeled and sliced
1 Tbsp oregano
Salt and pepper
6 cups O Organics chicken broth
2 cups O Organics Quick Cooking Rice
2 cups cooked, cubed O Organics chicken breast
¼ cup lemon juice
Lemon slices

Let’s Make It:

1. Melt butter in large pot over medium heat. Add onion and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add garlic and cook for an additional 1 minute. Stir in celery, carrots, and oregano. Cook for 2-3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

2. Stir in chicken broth and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

3. Add rice and cook for 8 minutes. Stir in chicken breast and cook for an additional 2 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice. Top with lemon slices before serving.

The combination of the lemon and oregano in this soup is amazing. Plus, since I am using the O Organics line for almost all of my ingredients, I know that they are non-GMO and proudly carry the USDA certified organic seal. The line makes it easy for me to get certified organic products, something I strive to do whenever I can, at a great value while also not sacrificing any taste.

What are some of the ways you power through cold and flu season? The combination of this cold busting lemon chicken soup and my go to Signature Care products from Safeway always ensure that, even if I get a cold, I can bounce back quickly and without breaking my wallet.

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Safeway.