Homemade Baby Formula
David Jockers, DNM, DC, MS is a doctor of natural medicine, functional nutritionist, and corrective care chiropractor. He is the founder of Exodus Health Center in Kennesaw, Georgia. Dr. Jockers and his wife, Angel, adapted (from Weston A. Price Foundation where you can learn even more) and developed this homemade-from-scratch recipe for baby formula when Angel could not produce enough breastmilk to nourish their baby twin boys well.
Cost: Varies
Ingredients
- 2 cups filtered water
- 2 tspn collagen protein
- 4 tbsp lactose
- 2 cups raw whole, grass-fed, or reg whole milk
- 2 tbsn heavy cream
- 1 capsule's contents Lacto (optional for lactose digestion support)
- ¼ tspn acerola powder
- ¼ tspn infant probiotics
- 2 tspn nutritional yeast flakes
- ½ tspn cod liver oil
- 1 tspn cold-pressed sunflower oil
- 1 tspn extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tspn coconut oil
- ¼ tspn butter oil (optional)
Instructions
- For links to locate the specific ingredients go to EverydayCheapskate.com/babyformula
- Pour one cup of the filtered water into a pan over medium heat
- Add collagen protein and lactose to the warming water to dissolve, stirring occasionally.
- While the collagen and lactose are dissolving, place milk in a clean, glass blender and add the remaining ingredients, make sure to open the Lacto capsule and adding only its contents, not the capsule itself.
- Then remove the pan from the heat and pour in the remaining half of the water to cool.
- Next, add 2 teaspoons coconut oil and (optional) ¼ teaspoon butter to the water to melt.
- Add the water mixture to the blender ingredients and blend for about 3 seconds.
- Pour the blended ingredients into glass jars and refrigerate.
- Nutrition is for one 8-oz. serving: Cal 108 Fat 4g Total Carbohydrates 4g; Sugars 3g Protein 3g
Notes
This recipe yields 36 oz. of baby formula.