Posted on 05/23/2020 11:09:26 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
At my local grocery store this week picking up items to help restock a local pregnancy center, I came across an older man looking distressed at the many options of expensive formula in front of him. I asked if he needed help to find what he was looking for, because I know that can be overwhelming. I’ve got eight kids and have spent many hours doing the same thing.
He said he knew what he needed but it was so darn expensive. Yes, it is, I said. He told me he needed to get it for his daughter, who was in town because she lost her job due to the coronavirus.
We parted ways and I just felt a pull to get a couple cans of formula for him, which I purchased, then went to find him. When I gave him the cans, he broke down in tears. He said he had been contemplating how to steal those cans because he’s on a fixed income and couldn’t afford the formula to help his daughter...
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Nosophobia is a bitch. People act irrationally and become germophobes.
“It’s not the response to the virus, it’s the virus.”
The virus doesn’t make you act like an idiot. That’s been your choice.
And guns kill people.
They do! I’ve seen it! jumped right off the table and shot people, all on their own! Really!
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With Poly Vi Sol with Iron it can be a working formula. All of us in the 50s and 60s drank this formula with the vits and iron doses each morning for a complete meal.
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Homemade Emergency Baby Formula Recipe
Updated on April 16, 2020
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I’m an experienced mother, and these are things I always have on hand for emergencies. A little preparation gives a lot of peace of mind!
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If you’re temporarily stuck without formula and unable to get more, you can use one of these emergency recipes to safely feed your infant. These substitutes should not be used in the long term.
If you’re temporarily stuck without formula and unable to get more, you can use one of these emergency recipes to safely feed your infant. These substitutes should not be used in the long term. | Source
So, You’ve Run Out of Baby Formula . . .
Your child is crying because they are hungry. Perhaps you’ve always used formula, or perhaps breastfeeding went by the wayside after you started working again and had a nasty bout with mastitis. Whatever the case may be, as you stumble bleary-eyed into your kitchen to the bottle station, you realize that you have run out of formula. Panic strikes. You check the cupboard, the pantry, and even the fridge hoping that you have a stash somewhere . . . anywhere. No dice. So what do you do?
. . . What Can You Use as a Substitute?
Before the days of Similac and soy-based milk products, infants would drink raw cow or goat milk. Unfortunately, raw milk frequently carried diseases that led to diarrhea, vomiting, high fevers, and compromised immune systems. In the 1920s, industrialization and new preservation processes allowed a number of foods to be sanitized of bacteria and stored for future use. Milk could now be stored for long periods of time safely without refrigeration. Evaporated milk was born.
A Nutritional Comparison of Evaporated Milk and Whole Milk
A Nutritional Comparison of Evaporated Milk and Whole Milk
Evaporated milk is exactly what it sounds like—milk that has been heated to a level where its water content begins to evaporate. Containing only 60% of the water found in typical milk, evaporated milk is milk intensified. This evaporation process concentrates nutrition and fat. In fact, it has around double the caloric and nutritional content of its unprocessed counterpart—exactly what your little one needs to satiate their hunger without compromising their health.
Before you begin, keep in mind that the recipes in this article are for short-term emergency use only and will not provide sufficient nutrition for prolonged use. Use these recipes only when you cannot, for whatever reason, obtain professionally made and nutritionally complete baby formula.
Recipes in This Article
Traditional Evaporated Milk Formula
1. Evaporated Milk Baby Formula Substitute
This recipe is for traditional emergency formula (just like Grandma used to make). One standard-sized 13-ounce can of evaporated milk can make a full quart of emergency formula. The process is simple, fast, and—best of all—does not compromise your child’s health.
As Dr. Andrew J. Schuman writes in his article, “A Concise History of Infant Formula,” this is the exact recipe that was widely used in the 1950s and 1960s for infants who were not breastfed. Please remember, though, that this homemade formula is not a long-term solution since it lacks necessary vitamins. Parents in the 50s and 60s gave their infants supplemental vitamins and iron along with this formula, as noted by Dr. Schuman.
Supplies Needed
Clean quart container
13 oz. can of evaporated whole milk (reduced fat, skim, and sweetened condensed milk will not provide enough calories or nutrition)
18 to 19 oz. of water
2 tablespoons of white granulated sugar or 1 tablespoon of light Karo syrup
Instructions
Combine the above ingredients into the quart container.
Stir until the sugar or light syrup is fully dissolved. The added sugar will help your child break down the proteins in the evaporated milk.
After serving your child, any remaining emergency formula should be refrigerated.
Any unused formula should be discarded after three days.
Congratulations! You have saved the day (or night) and have something safe to feed your baby until you can go to the store and pick up commercial-grade formula.
I remember my father making this up for my brother. then filled bottles went into the sterilizer and there would be nine bottles for feedings in the fridge.
What planet do you live on and what color is the sky there?
Consistently wrong is no way to go through life, son
See post 20, where I post evidence that the economy was tanking before the lock downs.
Then look in the mirror to see who is wrong and who needs to take their own advice.
The DAMAGE to our economy has come almost entirely by the RESPONSE to the virus and continues to this day. It is the lock downs and forced closures of businesses that has destroyed the economy. Tens of thousands of businesses have permanently closed.
None of this would have happened if we would have kept our wits about us and used common sense. We let the commies that saturate our government at every level as well as those in the media instill fear and shame. Notice virtually none of the ones responsible for this hysteria have been harmed by it.
The powers that be filed the results of this "test" for future reference. And use.
Oregon restaurants were closed on Mar 17th, I know because my reservation was canceled and my planned surprise baby shower for a friend completely ruined. We did a drive by one later.
Anyway, that was 3 days before CA. There were many smaller shut downs in many states before the complete stay home EO’s were issued. Which is why the economy started slipping before the lockdown orders.
Staying locked down will cause a worldwide depression and the longer lockdowns last the deeper the damage will be in the economic supply chain. Bankruptcy of large and medium size businesses will also bankrupt their suppliers who didn’t get paid. Large numbers of small businesses failing can bankrupt the larger suppliers who depend on their small and frequent orders. The dominoes will fall in both directions.
I think he was being sarcastic
Many on the left have taken to saying that a lot of businesses that have closed permanently or might weren’t doing well anyway..
Uhm well, I defended you but, those charts show the reality of everyone’s response to CCP-19.
My response and many others I know started in late February.
That response even showed up in my business with customers putting their signed contracts on hold
It took a hard turn in the 2nd week of February to the point the Chinese New Year Parade, which I was going to attend with a co-worker, just didn’t seem like a good idea given the information we had at the time.
And I luv me some dragons and fireworks.
So, your charts don’t show an economy going off the cliff for any other metric than personal responses to the Kung Flu and then a hard lock down beginning in Mid March by many states.
LOL Well your defense of me got better in post 21 than your defense of me in 20. I do appreciate the defense, we’ve not always been in agreement on this.
I was being serious not sarcastic.
It’s really hard or impossible to say how much worse the economy is due to government shut down vs the consumer response that was already in progress. But it’s clear the economy was shutting down on it’s own.
Just like it’s going to be hard if not impossible to say if the shut downs ultimately made for a better economic recover on the other side of the shut down than would have occurred naturally.
There was a study of city responses in 1918 that appeared to show that cities that shut down and took early responses fared better overall than those that didn’t. But there are an awful lot of variables.
None of that forced companies to shut down. Your friendly government did.
See post 20 and 21. The government may have “forced” companies to shut down, but consumers were already locking down.
The government orders may have actually given companies a break in that they could lay off employees instead of trying to cover their expenses with little revenue coming in.
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