Baby Formula Shortage - Alternatives!
A "Special Edition" with information on alternatives to store bought baby formula, some developments with diesel fuel, and some prepping information sites.
UPDATED: Added a link below to the “Radiant Life” page for baby formula ingredients and kits.
Pass this along to everyone you know that has infants and is in need of baby formula. There is a link further below with recipes for healthy homemade baby formula.
Baby Formula Shortage
This has been known to be on the way for a few weeks, but it’s just now making headlines. The Biden administration has been sending pallets of formula to aid illegal alien border crossing. After intentionally letting hundreds of thousands (or millions) freely cross illegally in to the country they are now allocating food and other resources for them and this double insult is outrageous.
There is an alternative to store bought baby formula!
Yes it is possible to make your own baby formula, that is healthier than store bought. The Weston Price organization has been publishing health information for many years and has a web page with several recipes for homemade baby formula. The recipes call for raw milk but you can use store bought milk instead. The web page also includes links where you can buy high-quality ingredients.
The Weston Price organization is a proponent of “raw milk”, milk that comes straight from the farm and has not been pasteurized or homogenized. People have consumed milk this way for thousands of years, but this suggestion is fraught with controversy. Do some research on your own to draw your own conclusions. Great starting points are the Weston Price website as well as one of their sites that focuses on raw milk: https://www.realmilk.com/
Please pass this information on to anyone you know that may want or need to make their own baby formula. I would like to suggest to avoid tap water for babies and to use bottled water that does not have fluoride nor any other chemical additives, which are not helpful at all to infants. Some water filters can remove these and other chemicals - for example the “ZeroWater” filters available at Walmart and Amazon are excellent. Even distilled water could be used since the other ingredients will add a lot of minerals and vitamins to the formula. Distilled water is usually not recommended as drinking water - it is suspected that the lack of mineral content in distilled water could cause your body to actually give up its own minerals. But with all the added ingredients these baby formulas have, this doesn’t seem like an issue. Do some internet searches for more information if you have concerns over using distilled water.
Homemade Baby Formula Recipes
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/childrens-health/formula-homemade-baby-formula/
The website below (Radiant Life) is referenced by Weston Price and has most of the ingredients. They even have some “kits” to get necessary ingredients together at once. If local health food stores don’t have a specific ingredient you should be able to find them at the Radiant Life web store.
https://radiantlifecatalog.com/baby-child/homemade-formula-kit-replacement-items/
More Mysterious Surprise Politicians Meeting with Zelensky in Ukraine
What is really going on over there? It’s understandable why Pelosi and Biden puppets would meet with Zelensky - they already have corrupt relationships over there - but the stream of politicians and celebrities meeting there is definitely odd. And, how is it that all these “blue-chip” elites can meet in the supposed middle of the big war zone? Now we have two of the biggest backstabbing sellout politicians, Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins, meeting there. I fear that something nefarious is afoot.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/mcconnell-and-susan-collins-visit-ukraine/
Diesel Fuel
Diesel fuel reached a new high of $5.55 this week. Diesel cost affects transportation of goods over highways, and rail, and the increased prices will feed in to consumer costs of everything from food to pencils. Plan accordingly.
A diesel refiner (see article below) projects that by this summer there could be rationing of diesel on the east coast. The increase of fuel cost digs in to income of semi-trailer operators where, at some point, it will become non-profitable for them to continue driving products to your city. Do not take ‘food on the shelves’ for granted.
According to the article, diesel inventories are at a 17 year low - which partly explains the rising price of diesel even while oil prices have stabilized - there is a supply and demand problem. While oil and fuel prices are shooting up, data provided by the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicates that profits by refiners is shooting up as well: yields went from $15 in January to the current $36 per barrel.
Diesel rationing could hit East Coast this summer
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/diesel-rationing-could-hit-east-coast-this-summer-refinery-owner-says
Preparedness for other shortages that may be coming
Here is a collection of links from “prepper” websites with lists of items to buy as preparation for uncertain future. They are not in any kind of order of preference.
https://www.survivalsullivan.com/ultimate-preppers-checklist-beginners/
https://www.survivalworld.com/preparedness/prepper-checklist/
http://www.freedompreppers.com/preppers-checklist-net.pdf
https://www.skilledsurvival.com/preppers-checklist/
http://thepatriotictone.com/prepper-checklist/
https://www.survivethewild.net/learn/preppers-checklist/
One of the oldest prepper information sites is https://www.survivalblog.com
The site was started by James Wesley Rawles in 2005 and there is a lot of information there. You can search the contents at https://survivalblog.com/archives/. They periodically sell an archive of all the content from 2005 - 2021, stored on a USB drive, for only $25 but it is currently showing out of stock.
It has a really good and extensive prepper list called the “list of lists” in an Excel spreadsheet. When you open it you will understand where its name came from and why this list has been so popular.
https://survivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/listoflists.xls
Enjoy the weekend and continue preparing for the uncertain future we will be facing.