Hi everyone!
I'm looking for some help with regards diet!
My partner has end stage kidney failure (currently 12%) he is awaiting transplant from a living relative hopefully within the next couple of months.
He is on a phosphate & potassium restricted diet. (I thought the phosphate restiction was bad until the potassium restriction was added!)
We have managed the diet completly on our own with no help from dieticians just the one page of info from hospital saying the big no no's!
What we are doing is working but it is extremly restrictive and repetitive. I know it's never going to be the most exciting diet in the world but surely I can be thinking of more varied dishes as at the moment it's the same thing day in day out!
Just thought it might be useful to get some of your ideas/tips & meal ideas to maybe introduce a bit of variety!
I do all the cooking and I'm hoping you might make my job slightly easier!!!
Thanks in advance
Jo
Diet Help!
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Re: Diet Help!
Hi Jo and welcome
Its really lovely that you are trying to cook healthy and interesting meals for your husband. I found it hard to be inventive when I was at that stage with all the restrictions and I really missed vegetables. The dietician didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know so I tried to be inventive, cooking the same ingredients but adding a twist. Have you seen the book: Eating well with Kidney failure, see here - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eating-Well-Kid ... 231&sr=8-1
It has some good tips and some recipes.
My diet was rather monotonous, and I live with an italian chef, geared towards preserving energy so I could function as normally as possible (I worked full time 12 hour shifts until dialysis and transplant). Pasta and rice were my best friends but I tried to cook them in different ways to make them more interesting.
Why not try to stir fry some veg that you would normally just boil (ie. cabbage and cauliflower, you still need to par boil both until half cooked). Instead of soya sauce use herbs, lemon juice, garlic and chilies to flavour. Use pesto as a flavouring, make your own in a blender with just basil and olive oil, it will keep well for a few days in the fridge. You can add fresh sliced garlic to the dish rather than adding to the pesto as it will go rancid quickly. Skip the nuts and cheese, you can always add a smidgen of cheese later if you really want it.
I hope you find your adventurous cooking side and that your husband enjoys the new foods. Also, wishing you both well with he upcoming transplant.
Best, Sanela
Its really lovely that you are trying to cook healthy and interesting meals for your husband. I found it hard to be inventive when I was at that stage with all the restrictions and I really missed vegetables. The dietician didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know so I tried to be inventive, cooking the same ingredients but adding a twist. Have you seen the book: Eating well with Kidney failure, see here - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eating-Well-Kid ... 231&sr=8-1
It has some good tips and some recipes.
My diet was rather monotonous, and I live with an italian chef, geared towards preserving energy so I could function as normally as possible (I worked full time 12 hour shifts until dialysis and transplant). Pasta and rice were my best friends but I tried to cook them in different ways to make them more interesting.
Why not try to stir fry some veg that you would normally just boil (ie. cabbage and cauliflower, you still need to par boil both until half cooked). Instead of soya sauce use herbs, lemon juice, garlic and chilies to flavour. Use pesto as a flavouring, make your own in a blender with just basil and olive oil, it will keep well for a few days in the fridge. You can add fresh sliced garlic to the dish rather than adding to the pesto as it will go rancid quickly. Skip the nuts and cheese, you can always add a smidgen of cheese later if you really want it.
I hope you find your adventurous cooking side and that your husband enjoys the new foods. Also, wishing you both well with he upcoming transplant.
Best, Sanela
Walter, 15 september 2009
Re: Diet Help!
Hi Jo,
You could also try this cookbook by Lawrence Keogh, a chef who has kidney failure and is now transplanted.
I received a free paper copy from somewhere, but you can read it online or print it from....
http://blogit.realwire.com/media/Kidney ... 0final.pdf
Regards,
Mandy
You could also try this cookbook by Lawrence Keogh, a chef who has kidney failure and is now transplanted.
I received a free paper copy from somewhere, but you can read it online or print it from....
http://blogit.realwire.com/media/Kidney ... 0final.pdf
Regards,
Mandy
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Re: Diet Help!
I recommend this site. http://www.davita.com/recipes
Just adjust some of the US measures and ingredients. I do recommend the Eating Well , published by class publishing all available on Amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1859591167
Truly Tasty is another recently published renal cookbook, I think it's worth its weight and excellent if you need to throw the book, at someone. I digress
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1855942143.
It is a Truly Tasty volume:)
Just adjust some of the US measures and ingredients. I do recommend the Eating Well , published by class publishing all available on Amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1859591167
Truly Tasty is another recently published renal cookbook, I think it's worth its weight and excellent if you need to throw the book, at someone. I digress
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1855942143.It is a Truly Tasty volume:)
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