Homemade Baby Formula

Some of you may or may not know this but when my boy was a baby and still eating formula, I made it at home (most of the time) It turned out really great and he very rarely spit up when he had this. When we gave him powdered formula from the store he spit up quite a bit.

First you'll need glass baby bottles to store the milk in. You can find glass bottles almost anywhere now. Babies R Us and Target usually always have them in stock.

The recipe below makes approx. 180 oz.. Which is enough for two weeks. (usually)

Ingredients:

9 1/2 cups filtered water
10 Tbsp gelatin
10 cups whole milk
1 1/4 cups home made liquid whey (see below on how to make whey)
1 Cup + 4 Tbsp Lactose
1 1/4 tsp bifidobacterium infantis
10 Tbsp cream (if you use raw milk, or milk that has cream on the top - you do not need to add cream)
5 tsp cod liver oil
5 tsp expeller pressed sunflower oil
5 tsp extra virgin olive oil
2 Tbsp coconut oil
2 Tbsp Frontier brand yeast flakes
1 1/4 tsp acerola powder

Directions

Add gelatin to water and heat gently until gelatin is dissolved. Place all ingredients into a glass or stainless steel container and mix well.
Put into very clean glass bottles and refrigerate. To serve, warm in bottle. You can use a bottle warmer or pot of water on the stove.

NOTE: Any of the items listed can be found at any health food store. (i.e. Whole Foods) Most associates that work at the health food stores can easily help you find any of these. If they don't have them in stock they will order them in.


Liquid Whey:


First you need plain yogurt. You can buy it from the store or if you have home made yogurt that will work too. But it must be plain. 
Line a large strainer with a clean kitchen towel or cheese cloth. Place it in a large pitcher, then dump the yogurt into it. 
Let it sit and drip for a few hours, take the towel off the strainer and tie it onto a wooden spoon (or any large spoon or spatula) and place the spoon on top of the pitcher to where the towel of yogurt is hanging suspended in the pitcher from the spoon. Leave it there overnight, until it completely stops dripping. 
When it is done, the stuff that dripped into the pitcher is whey. It will last about six months in the fridge. The stuff in the towel is like cream cheese and can be used just like cream cheese in recipe's and such.  It will last about one month in the fridge. 


Note, leave the yogurt sitting out at room temp during this process.