1/4 cup homemade liquid whey- Use only homemade whey made from yoghurt, kefir or separated raw milk. This is really easy to make however you need a cheese cloth and for the yogurt to sit out over night. This was one of the ingredients I could not do while traveling but I loved it for Tino)
In my blender I added 2 cups of water.
-Then I added the 4 scoops of goat milk powder
-Then in a pan I put 1 cup of water, the gelatin and nutritional yeast flakes
-put pan on lowest heat and wait for the gelatin to melt, stir occasionally. I add the yeast flakes to the pan because i felt like they would clog the bottle if just added to the cold formula. So this worked well for us.
- I measured out 1 more cup and left it to the side.
-Then I added the dry ingredients such as the acerola powder, and probiotic
-Then the heavy cream and liquid whey
-Then I added the olive oil and sunflower oil to the blender
-Now that theres oil on the teaspoon- i added the molasses as its very sticky- so this helps it to fall right off into the blender
-Take pot off stove, stir in your coconut oil and High vitamin butter oil.
-Then I added the last cup of water to the pan to cool it off before adding it to the mix.
-I would blend quickly on low all of the ingredients currently in the blender and then add and blend again everything from the pan.
Lastly- I would pour 3oz at a time into Glass baby bottles. I did this because I felt that some of the ingredients would settle by the time I got to the last bottle so I tried to make it as even as possible. Tino in now drinking 7 oz so I do about 3 rounds of pouring into each bottle.
** Note: In europe I found it easier to use an electric teapot to boil 1 cup of water - pour into a coffee mug and then simply add in the gelatin, yeast flakes , coconut oil and high vitamin butter oil. Stir and then pour into the extra cup holding the 4th additional cup of cool water. Then add everything to the blender. You can use this method with the Tubanido sugar in the below recipe as well.
This formula worked the best for Tino. His skin was amazing!!! Always consult your Dr or Pediatrician before hand.
How To Travel With Homemade Goat Milk Formula:
I looked everywhere for a blog on how to travel LONG distances when feeding your little one homemade goat milk formula, and I couldn't find anything for the life of me. I did find a Q&A on Mt. Capra's website but their way of traveling with all the oils separate and this and that just didn't seem practical to do when on an aircraft or moving vehicle and have a screaming hungry baby. Measuring out oils... I don't think so.
So I thought to myself... "why does this formula have to be refrigerated"? Oils don't have to stay in the fridge, sugar, acerola powder and molasses don't have to stay in the fridge... What puts an "expiration date" on the homemade goat milk formula is mainly the goat milk. Ok, so the infant probiotic has to be kept in a fridge, but if he has that once in his morning bottle before traveling, I don't need to include it in all the others.
I figured out that I could mix EVERYTHING in the new formula I was going to use while traveling and just keep out the powdered goat milk in pre measured formula containers and mix it in when Tino was ready for a bottle. Then all I would have to do is stick it into my travel bottle warmer and Its ready to go!!!!! Gosh, I felt like a damn genius LOL.
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My Kitchen the night before traveling |
New Goat Milk Formula When Away from Home-
based on the Westin A Price and Mt. Capra recipes:
Ingredients- makes about 36 oz. ( This is what Im currently using while away from home for 1 month)
-4 cups of water
-2 scoops of Meyenberg powdered goat milk formula
-2 table spoons Mt. Capra Goat milk formula ( I couldn't get enough Meyenberg before leaving the states)
-2 tsp coconut oil
-1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon sunflower oil
-2 table spoon organic Turbinado sugar ( could stick with maple syrup )
-1/2 -1 teaspoon molasses (depending on stool)
-1/4 tsp infant probiotic (follow product instructions based on age or weight)
-1/8 tsp infant powder multi vitamin (again, it says 1/4 for 6 months so i decreased it based on age)
-1 scoop Mt. Capra colostrum
- 1ml DHA - goes based on age/weight- should be 2ml but Im also using Cod liver oil so Im splitting the dosage
-1/8 acerola powder
-1/8 high vitamin butter oil
-1/4 tsp fermented cod liver oil
So there were a few things in the Nourishing Traditons recipe that I really loved and didnt want to give up, like the acerola powder, high vitamin butter oil, cod liver oil and sunflower oil. So I combined the 2 recipes to how I felt they worked best. I would normally just stick with meyenger goat milk but I couldnt find enough cans of it before leaving but was able to get 2 containers of Mt. Capra- so i mix them together however when I go home Ill be switching back to meyenberg... I think he reacted better to it on its own.
Heres How to Prep Individual Bottles of Homemade Goat Milk Formula for Traveling (that don't need to be kept cool):
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Homemade Goat Milk formula ready for travel. |
I looked up on Mt Capra's recipe card to see their recipe based on an 8oz bottle. Being that Tino was drinking about 7oz I made it easier on myself and just made them all 8 oz. For an 11 hr flight plus 5 additional hours I estimated I needed 1 bottle for every 2 hours... Thats a lot obviously but I needed to over plan rather than under plan. Always expect the unexpected. So I decided to make 6 travel bottles that did not have to be kept in a cooler for traveling.
In one bottle I added -
-8oz of water
- 1/2 tsp already melted coconut oil
-1/4 tsp olive oil
-1/4 tsp sunflower oil
-1 tablespoon Turbinado sugar
-1/8 tsp molasses
-divided the 1ml of DHA into the 6 bottles (doesn't have to be perfect)
-divided the 1/4 tsp cod liver oil into the 6 bottles (again, doesn't have to be perfect)
- divided the 1/8 tsp acerola powder into 6 bottles (doesn't have to be perfect)
-divided the 1/8 tsp pre melted high vitamin butter oil into 6 bottles (doesn't have to be perfect)
I then measured out the 1 tablespoon powdered goat milk into my Tommee Tippee formula holders and put them into ziplock bags.
These bottles do not have to be in a fridge!!! It made traveling so easy. When Tino was ready I added the powdered goat milk, gave it a good shake, and popped it into my Tommee Tippe travel bottle warmer. It was perfect. This is even good if you're heading out for the day but dont want to bring along a insulated bag with lots of ice packs plus your diaper bag and personal items lol... Babies require a lot of things.

The night before traveling I also made a fresh batch and froze about 5 bottles. These would then be added to my bag in the morning and act as ice packs for the fresh goat milk that needed to stay cool that I was also taking with me. So total I had 4 fresh bottles ready to go, 5 frozen bottles and 6 bottles ready to go minus the goat milk. Thats a total of 15 bottles, and Im so happy I had that many because once we landed and had a 3 hr car ride to our home and I didn't have to worry about finding all my ingredients packed away and a blender and making a fresh batch. I popped the frozen bottles into the fridge and had a few mixed bottles (the ones without the goat milk) left over to get me through the day.
Not having actually used the travel recipe in the past, I wasn't sure if it would upset his belly or if he would just hate it for some reason, so thats why I made a fresh batch and also froze one. But, is was perfect. Didn't upset his tummy and didn't throw up!!!
** Note- I traveled with 15 pre filled baby bottles on an international flight for 11hrs. Some people may not know you are allowed to do this when traveling with a baby. I brought both glass and plastic bottles in a huge cooler bag with ice packs. I did some research and found on the TSA.gov website the 3-1-1 rule. I wanted to include it on my blog for those who may not know about it when traveling. I also printed it out and kept it with me in my bottle bag incase I was given a hard time.
Here is the link to the website- you can download and print the entire page.
I hope this was easy to understand. I have so much on my mind and so much I want to share Im trying my fastest to get it into my blog.
Again, always consult your Dr. before hand. Im just sharing what I use and do for my baby and what works for us.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments.
Thank you. So happy to be blogging again.
What should I write about next!??!?!
xx
J
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Mama of 2 under One and a half <3 |