Mathea Ford's Blog, page 78
June 8, 2015
Are Your Meal Plans Realistic for Kidney Disease?
Living with a chronic health condition such as chronic kidney disease means making special considerations and planning for your diet and lifestyle. You may need to change your entire way of thinking when it comes to how and what you eat, and you may even be surprised by some of the changes that you have to make. It is imperative that you make the correct dietary choices when you have kidney disease. This is because your diet often impacts your kidney health as much as or more so than all of your medications.There are two main things to consider when putting together a diet plan for kidney disease. The first is your coordination and cooperation with your physician and nutritionist. Every person and every health case is different, so it is very important that you discuss any of your diet and lifestyle changes with your medical professionals. You want to make sure that the changes you are making are actually going to be helpful.
The second thing to consider is your meal plan itself. Putting together an effective meal plan can mean the difference between an easy transition and a struggle to keep to a successful diet. The biggest thing you should consider about your meal plan is whether or not it is realistic.
What does it mean to build a realistic meal plan? A realistic meal plan can mean success, and an easier way to follow your diet as recommended. An unrealistic meal plan is one that you are unlikely to be able to follow, one where slip ups are more likely to occur, and one that may ultimately pushes you to give up. You can see why a realistic meal plan would be so important for kidney disease. After all, anything that can take some pressure off you and make your life easier is a good thing.
Here are a few tips to building a realistic meal plan for kidney disease:
Keep It Simple
The first rule to building realistic meal plans is to keep everything as simple as possible. This means choosing simple recipes with fewer ingredients that take less time to cook. It means doing as much prep work as possible ahead of time to make each day as easy as possible. Whatever steps you can take to keep your meal plan simple are steps that you are taking to make your meal plan a success.
Write Everything Down
Lists and charts may sound a little boring or cliché, but they are going to make your meal plan work. Make lists for everything: what you are going to eat, what days you are going to eat certain meals, what ingredients you need from the grocery store. These lists will help take out all the guess work from making a successful meal plan. Less guess work means a more realistic meal plan.
Account for Every Meal
When you are putting together your meal plan, make sure that you are accounting for every meal of the day and snacks. Depending on what stage of kidney disease you are in, you may need to account for fluids as well. Accounting for everything means you are less likely to forget a meal and end up scrambling for something to eat.
Realistic meal planning is effective meal planning, especially when it comes to treating your chronic kidney disease. Follow these tips and techniques to help build a more realistic meal plan that will work for you. For more meal ideas click here!
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May 25, 2015
Help Me Interpret the Doctor’s Health Guidelines
Sometimes, doctors and other medical professionals can forget that you didn’t go to medical school to understand all of the medical jargon and lingo that they can use when talking to you. A lot of it can simply just go right over your head. Especially when you may be feeling overwhelmed by a new diagnosis such as chronic kidney disease, trying to interpret the doctor’s health guidelines can be really discouraging.Ask Questions
The first thing you should know is that your doctor is there to help you. If you are having trouble understanding specific instructions from your doctor, you can and should ask your doctor or even a nurse to sit down and help you understand your treatment. Knowing about your disease and what you can do to treat it is how you are going to create the best outcome for yourself. So, the first step to interpreting your doctor’s guidelines is to take responsibility for your own outcome by not being afraid to ask questions and do whatever you can to make sure you understand what is happening and what you should do.
Read All About It
Everyone learns in different ways. Some people learn by having someone, like their doctor, describe things to them. You might learn better by reading more about your condition.
The internet is full of information for you to read to your heart’s content. The trick is making sure that you are looking only at legitimate and accredited websites. These sites are going to contain information that is directly from real professionals, such as the National Kidney Foundation, The United States Center for Disease Control, and other professional and proven institutions.
Aside from research about your condition itself, you can also find recipes and more to help you manage your kidney disease.
Know the Basics
What is kidney disease?
Kidney disease is a chronic condition marked by the loss of kidney function over time. As the kidneys are responsible for many jobs in the body, this can be very dangerous to your health. Although this is a chronic illness, there are many things that can be done to treat and manage kidney disease in such a way that you can stop the progression and avoid kidney failure.
What is the best way to treat kidney disease?
Although you may have appointments, tests, and medications to also treat kidney disease, the best thing you can do to manage your condition is to maintain a sensible diet that is specific to your needs.
What is a sensible kidney disease diet?
A sensible kidney disease diet is one that cuts out sodium and is low in potassium, phosphorus, and other ingredients that can be harmful to kidney function. Your doctor will likely give you a list of foods you should avoid, and foods you should eat more of.
Interpreting doctor’s health guidelines can be extremely difficult, especially when it comes to complicated chronic conditions like chronic kidney disease. With just these few tips, however, you can understand everything you need to know so much easier. Understanding your disease and what you can do to manage it is the first step, after all, to managing chronic kidney disease.
Click here for information on managing chronic kidney disease.
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May 18, 2015
Control Your Kidney Disease with a Sensible Diet
Living with a chronic disease such as kidney disease or diabetes can sometimes feel difficult. There are a lot of changes you have to make to your entire lifestyle, and sometimes when you are feeling down those changes may not feel worth it. The fact is, however, that is these changes that make the biggest difference in controlling these chronic conditions.What is kidney disease?
Kidney disease is a chronic condition that is marked by the loss of kidney function. The loss of kidney function determines which stage of the disease they are in. The rate at which a person loses kidney function often depends on the patient themselves, and their treatment. Each stage of the disease comes with its own challenges and recommendations.
How do you treat kidney disease?
There are many different parts to the treatment of kidney disease. Of course, there are doctor appointments, testing, and medications that you may need to follow up with. Late stage kidney disease will often require dialysis or even a kidney transplant.
In the beginning stages of kidney disease especially however, the number one treatment for kidney disease is a sensible diet. What you eat vastly contributes to your health and well-being, especially when you have kidney disease or other chronic illnesses.
How does diet influence kidney function?
Everything that you eat or drink gets processed through your body. It is broken down in your stomach into the many by-products that make up each food item. These by-products are filtered into your blood stream, and are filtered through your kidneys. Everything that you eat or drink is eventually processed by your kidneys. The kidneys filter out waste, send needed proteins and by-products to other parts of the body, and maintain many other jobs in the body.
When your kidneys do not function properly, it affects your entire body. You may feel sluggish, tired, sore, or even feel pain in your kidneys especially when you need to urinate. The foods you eat can make these symptoms better or worse. Maintaining a sensible diet can not only help you feel better, but it can actually stop the progression of your kidney disease.
What does a sensible kidney disease diet include?
A sensible kidney disease diet will require you to omit quite a few food items from your diet. These include sodium, potassium, and phosphorus rich foods. As kidney disease progresses, there may be other omissions or the diet may be stricter.
Maintaining a sensible diet for kidney disease, or really any other chronic condition, is not all about what you should not eat, however. A sensible diet also includes eating foods that are good for you and for your kidney function. Some of these foods include red bell peppers, antioxidant rich berries, cruciferous vegetables, garlic, onions, and more.
Maintaining a sensible diet is the best way that you can help control your kidney disease. Not only will it help you feel better, but you have the potential to effectively halt the progression of your illness and avoid end stage renal disease. The better you follow your sensible diet, the more likely you are to live a healthy, happy, and comfortable life.
For more information about your kidney diet and how to start, click here.
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May 11, 2015
How Can You Live With Kidney Disease
If you have recently been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, you might be feeling a bit hopeless at the moment. Right after a diagnosis like this, so many people feel hopeless or lost as to what to do next. How exactly can you live with kidney disease?Chin Up
The first step to living with kidney disease is realizing that all is not lost. There is still so much you can do to extend your life, health, and comfort that can really benefit you. If you continue to lose yourself in your hopelessness, you are unlikely to follow through with the steps you need to take to make yourself as healthy as possible.
You need to realize that there is hope for you yet. In fact, with the right treatment you can start feeling better than ever. It starts with listening to what your doctors have to say, and ends with realizing that the responsibility for your health is in your hands. Did you know, for example, that you have the potential to actually stop the progression of kidney disease with the right diet and treatment?
Make Changes
The number one way you can control your chronic kidney disease is to make changes to your life, specifically to your diet. Even with all of the tests and medications and treatments that the doctors can provide cannot help you nearly as much as you can help you. Controlling your diet is the number one treatment for chronic kidney disease, and carefully following a sensible kidney safe diet is how you could potentially avoid end stage renal disease and dialysis.
Get To Know the New You
You cannot expect yourself to just magically know how to choose and cook the right healthy foods when you have been eating a certain way your entire life. It will take time, work, and a bit of research to learn a whole new lifestyle. So don’t expect to just automatically expect to know how to build a healthy meal plan and cook kidney safe meals.
You can get a better idea of how and what to eat by looking up recipes. Find kidney safe specific meals that look good to you. Despite what many people think, eating healthy for chronic conditions does not mean you have to eat bland and boring foods. You can build delicious and healthy meals that you and your whole family will love.
After a while of researching kidney safe recipes and following directions on those recipes, you will get a handle on what foods are good to eat and be able to build your own recipes. Soon enough, as hard as it may seem now, it will all be second nature to you.
So, how do you live with kidney disease? Simply put, you just do it. You pull yourself out of the helplessness you may feel and you start focusing on what you can do to make yourself better. It is true that you will always have chronic kidney disease, there is no going back. It is also true that with the right changes to your diet and lifestyle; you can start feeling better than you have in a very, very long time. For more information Check out my Kidney Diet Starter Kit!
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May 4, 2015
Find Good Recipes to Increase Kidney Health
Kidney disease is a chronic condition that benefits greatly from a controlled diet. In fact, your diet can impact chronic kidney disease more than anything else, which means that your diet can literally make or break you. With the right diet, you have the potential to both further your disease and potentially cause yourself pain and suffering, or you could thrive and become healthier than ever.Many people assume that eating a carefully controlled diet for a chronic condition such as kidney disease means you have to eat boring, tasteless foods. Most people assume this because they are so used to eating a certain way that they have no idea how to cook or eat differently than they always have. The fact is though that to increase your kidney healthy, you will have to change your diet. Luckily, you can still enjoy eating and cook delicious meals that your whole family can enjoy that are healthy for you.
Talk To Your Doctor
You should always speak to your doctor or nutritionist before making any changes to your diet or lifestyle, especially when you have a chronic condition such as kidney disease or diabetes. Your doctor may also be able to give you recommendations for foods that you both should and should not eat. If your doctor or nutritionist only gives you a list of foods to avoid, specifically ask for a list of foods that you can and even should eat, to help increase kidney health.
Do Some Research
You cannot expect to change your diet without a little information. Otherwise, everything from your trip to the grocery store to the moment you try to cook a meal might turn out to be more discouraging than helpful. A little bit of research before you start could really help you understand better about which foods to eat, what to avoid, and how to proceed. Your best course of action is to find some kidney friendly recipes that look tasty and build a meal plan, one week at a time. You will then use that meal plan to go grocery shopping, and follow the recipes to cook healthy, kidney safe meals.
Know What’s Good
Changing your diet is not all about omitting delicious foods and depriving yourself, despite what most people think. Instead, changing your diet for the better is about changing the way you look at food, and learning about what you can and should eat. Thinking about big changes such as this in a more positive way, for one, will certainly make your life a lot easier and make it more likely for you to stick to these necessary changes.
Make a list, based on your research and the list that your doctor gives you, of foods that are good for kidney disease. These foods, for example, are proven to help increase your kidney health:
• Cranberries
• Berries- blueberries, raspberries, cherries, etc.
• Cabbage
• Spinach
• Asparagus
• Red Bell Peppers
• Onions
• Red Grapes
• Fish
All of these foods and many more are not only healthy for you to eat when you have kidney disease, but they can actually help increase your kidney health. Changing your diet can be difficult, but with a bit of research you can help yourself so much. A little research can help you find good recipes to increase kidney health. Here are some recipes to get you started.
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April 27, 2015
Easy Recipes For a Kidney Safe Diet
Putting together meal plans and recipes for a kidney safe diet does not have to be difficult. In fact, there are plenty of enjoyable recipes that work for renal disease. These recipes make putting together kidney safe meals easy.Breakfast
For the most important meal of the day, you want something that will sustain you until your next meal. The typical American diet tends to include a lot of sugar and sodium rich foods for breakfast, but there are so many options to make breakfast delicious and healthy for a renal diet.
Zucchini Hash Browns
Ingredients:
1 large zucchini, grated or shredded
½ small yellow onion, diced
1 small red pepper, diced
1 garlic clove, finely diced
1 tablespoon olive oil
After shredding your large zucchini, squeeze by hand to remove excess moisture. Throw peppers in with zucchini and mix together by hand, let sit for a few minutes while you heat the oil in a pan. In a skillet, heat oil and then saute onion and garlic until the onion is transparent. Add the zucchini mixture to the pan and cook until browned, flipping and “scattering” as needed.
Lunch
Although super convenient, deli meats are typically full of extra sodium. Instead, use meats left over from dinner the night before or freshly slice lean meats yourself. Do this ahead of time to make hassle free lunch options.
Delicious Deli Bagel Sandwich
1 plain bagel
2 ounces freshly sliced turkey breast
Shredded carrot
1-2 leaves of fresh raw kale
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
Pair your sandwich with a sliced apple or a handful of grapes and a glass of sugar free lemonade.
Dinner
End your day on a delicious and healthy note. To omit a lot of sodium and added phosphorus, try to avoid using processed foods whenever possible. Instead, stick to lean proteins, white starches, and lots of fresh produce.
Oven Baked Tilapia with Sauteed Veggies
Ingredients:
½ large onion
1 3 ounce tilapia fillet
2 lemon wedges
salt free spice mix
1 cup fresh sugar snap peas
1/2 cup bell pepper mix, julienne cut
½ cup cauliflower florets
1 tablespoon olive oil
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil and spray with nonstick spray. Cut one thick slice of onion, set on baking sheet. Put tilapia fillet on top of the onion and sprinkle with your choice of salt free spice mix. Squeeze lemon wedge over fish and leave the wedge on top of the fish while baking. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until white and flaky.
While fish is baking, heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Saute sugar snap peas, bell peppers, and cauliflower. Season with salt free spice mix and squeeze a lemon wedge over veggies before removing from pan.
Pairs well with white or saffron rice. Any salt free seasoning mix will work, so you can use your favorite. For a bit of spice, sprinkle a tiny bit of crushed red pepper flakes or fresh ground black pepper over the fish before baking.
These meal ideas, plus some simple fresh snacks like baby carrots or salt free pretzels and hummus, will keep you happy and satisfied. You can find more kidney friendly and delicious recipes like these here.
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April 20, 2015
Visit Renal Diet Headquarters for Help
The diagnosis of chronic kidney disease is not in any way a death sentence or even the end of life as you know it. The fact is that you can still live a healthy and happy life, if not a healthier and happier one, if you simply know how to control your diet. Luckily for you, there are so many resources available to help you.Renal Diet Headquarters, found at www.renaldiethq.com, can help you with every step of the process. The tips, techniques, and advice found at Renal Diet Headquarters offers you all of the support and help you could need in one easy place. All of this assistance is available with the simple click of a button, at your very fingertips.
The Kidney Disease Starter Kit
Renal Diet Headquarters strives to make everything as simple and straightforward as it could possibly be. So they bring you the Kidney Disease Starter Kit. This amazing program literally walks you through every aspect of chronic kidney disease.
Understanding Kidney Disease
Unfortunately, simply hearing a diagnosis of chronic kidney disease does not trigger an automatic understanding of what that means and how it may change your life. There is no such thing as learning by osmosis, and the World Wide Web can be more overwhelming than helpful at times. It is for this reason that Renal Diet Headquarters offers the Kidney Disease Starter Kit by helping you understand what chronic kidney disease actually is, how it works, and how it can be helped. This is all done without overwhelming you will too much information at once, in a way that is easy to understand. After all, understanding kidney disease is the first step to proper treatment.
How to Manage Kidney Disease
The Kidney Disease Starter kit does not just explain what kidney disease is, however, it truly walks you through every step possible to help you manage your condition. Everything from what foods you should and should not eat, to how to make meal planning easy is included. Whatever Renal Diet Headquarters can do to make your life managing renal disease a little easier, is all wrapped up in one easy to follow program.
How to Avoid ESRD
Many people that receive a diagnosis of chronic kidney disease simply resolve themselves to a bleak future of uncomfortable dialysis and transplant lists. The fact is, however, that it is actually possible to slow or even stop the progression of renal failure. This means that you may never reach end stage renal disease, may never need dialysis, and will never look at a kidney transplant list. This may sound too good to be true, but it can and has been done, and Renal Diet Headquarters helps you learn how to do this through diet control and proper disease management.
Understanding Your Doctors
Blood work and medical jargon are certainly not helpful tools for understanding what is happening to your body. The Kidney Disease Starter Kit can help you easily decipher your lab results so that you can better understand your condition.
Renal Diet Headquarters is the place to start for people that have chronic kidney disease and want help. You can get better understanding of what your body is going through, how to help yourself by controlling your diet, and so much more. Visit www.renaldiethq.com for help today.
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Renal Diet Menu Headquarters - Renal Diets That You Will Love!
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April 13, 2015
Are You Struggling To Control Your Diet?
So many people across the world struggle with making the best decisions regarding their diets. Although they are the people that often need to pay the most attention to their diets, people with chronic conditions such as renal failure
, diabetes, and hypertension often have the hardest time with their struggle to eat healthy. Some of this stems from simply being stressed out by the restrictive nature of many diets to control these chronic conditions. Others simply do not know how to build and stick to an effective meal plan.Talk To Your Doctor
Have a discussion with your physician or nutritionist about what foods you both can eat and should stay away from. Often, your doctor may have a list that you can keep to help you cut down on the guess work involved. It is a good idea to take notes during your conversation, and remember to focus not only on what you cannot eat, but also what you can and should eat. It is always best to start with your doctor because your situation may differ than other people, and depending on what stage of your disease you are in, you may have more or less restrictions.
Remember Your End Goal
That is: You want to feel good and live a long and healthy life. You might be surprised by how much your diet impacts your entire life and well-being. You cannot just rely on medications to make you better, you have to make changes for yourself as well. Every bite of food that you put into your mouth gets broken down, processed by your kidneys, and the byproducts are filtered through your entire body. Controlling your diet can not only help you feel better, but it could help you slow or even stop the progression of many chronic illnesses, including chronic kidney disease. You have the potential to effectively stop the progression of your disease and never reach end stage kidney disease if you take care of yourself properly.
Plan Effectively
A successful diet almost always comes down to effective meal planning. Planning out your meals and executing it in an organized fashion can help you stick to a healthier diet almost 100% of the time. Of course, everything depends on you, but you can benefit from a meal plan so much. Meal planning helps you know what you are going to eat ahead of time, purchase all of the necessary ingredients, do prep work ahead of time, and be ready for each and every meal. It takes the guess work out of the ubiquitous questions like “what’s for dinner?” and “what can I eat tonight?”. It starts with researching great recipes that fit into your diet plan, mapping out what meals you plan to eat and snacks, shopping according to your ingredients list, and follow through. After all the work you put into your meal plan, you are always more likely to follow through.
Controlling your diet, especially with chronic conditions like kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension, and more, is an important part of living the best and longest healthy life. Not only could it keep you around longer, but your comfort and quality of life are severely impacted by your diet. Following these tips for getting your diet under control will help you get on the road to health. Click here for more tips!
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Renal Diet Menu Headquarters - Renal Diets That You Will Love!
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April 6, 2015
What Foods Should You Eat With Kidney Disease
What Foods Should You Eat With Kidney Disease? Putting together a healthy meal plan for kidney disease can be a little challenging at first, especially if you do not know what foods you can eat. So often, people tend to focus so much on what they cannot eat that they become stressed to the point where they do not realize how much there is still to eat and enjoy. The key is to focus on the main ingredients that you should avoid, while also focusing on the many options still available to you.Here are some examples of foods that you should eat with kidney disease:
Unprocessed Foods
Especially in the United States, people tend to be reliant upon processed foods to build their meals. These items are full of ingredients that really are not good for anyone, especially a person with kidney disease. Processed foods such as boxed macaroni and cheese, meal helper kits, and even simple rice dishes that come in a box are full of massive amounts of sodium and tons of other chemicals. As a general rule, if it comes in a cardboard box, you shouldn’t eat it. Instead, you should focus on natural foods that will help your body heal as well as fill you up.
Fresh Produce
Fruits and vegetables are often considered to be natural medicine for your body, so the produce department is always a great place to start when you are grocery shopping. Especially foods such as bell peppers, cabbage, onions, and super-foods like berries, should always make it into your cart and on your dinner table. If you are in the later stages of kidney disease, make sure that you are also paying attention to your potassium intake, which may limit your produce options a little bit. It is a good idea to get a more thorough list of produce that you can eat.
The Right Grains
Although your kidneys may not be able to process some of the whole grain options, you can still enjoy things like rice and pasta in moderation. Stick to the white versions of these foods to make it so your kidneys can more easily process the byproducts of what you eat.
Herbs and Spices
You don’t need salt to make dishes taste good. In fact, you might start to notice that foods naturally taste more delicious and have deeper flavors than you ever thought possible. When you need something extra to jazz up your recipes, go to fresh or dried herbs and salt-free spices to flavor your meals.
Lean Proteins
Depending on what stage of kidney disease you are in, you may or may not need to limit your protein intake. At least once a day, however, most patients are recommended to have a serving of lean protein. The best choices are usually fish, poultry, egg whites, and tofu. Fish is especially great for you, as it offers healthy omega 3’s to your diet. You can use any of these options to build great and satisfying meals, and the options are only as limited as your imagination. Consider fajitas, tacos, casseroles, and more all starting with these great lean protein options.
Starting with these food groups and examples, you can start to build a delicious and healthy kidney disease meal plan. Always talk to your doctor before making new decisions about your diet.
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Renal Diet Menu Headquarters - Renal Diets That You Will Love!
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March 30, 2015
Successful Chronic Kidney Disease Meal Plans
Knowing what to eat when you are living with a chronic disease such as chronic kidney disease can be a daunting idea but it does not have to be. Although your diet, depending on what stage of kidney disease you are in, may be somewhat restrictive, there are still plenty of foods you can eat and enjoy. Seeing a successful kidney friendly meal plan might help you to get an idea of what type of foods are safe and healthy to eat with chronic kidney disease.Here is a two day example menu to get you started:
Day One
Breakfast: One serving of egg substitute, scrambled with fresh chopped onion and red and green bell peppers. Pair with one slice of white toast with one or two teaspoons of cream cheese and a small bowl (about a ½ cup) of fresh strawberries.
Snack: One apple, medium in size.
Lunch: Cabbage rolls- use two or three large, crisp, cabbage leaves to roll up shredded baked chicken, chopped apple, onions, a little bit of mayonnaise, and a sprinkle of honey mustard vinaigrette (made by whisking together apple cider vinegar, yellow mustard, and honey). Serve with a serving of unsalted pretzels.
Snack: One serving of baby carrots, with homemade, low sodium hummus or ranch dressing.
Dinner: Low sodium turkey and vegetable chili, topped with a small dollop of low fat sour cream. Serve with five unsalted crackers.
Dessert: Small slice of angel food cake with fresh strawberries and low fat, non dairy whipped cream.
Day Two
Breakfast: One English muffin with one teaspoon of cream cheese and one teaspoon of sugar free fruit preserve. Side with ½ cup of yellow grits and a small bowl of mixed berries.
Snack: One small bunch of grapes.
Lunch: ½ cup Cauliflower and ¼ cup chopped red bell pepper, sauteed in1 tbsp olive oil with garlic and chopped onion. Toss with ½ cup of cooked noodles. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese.
Snack: ½ cup peach slices with ¼ cup cottage cheese.
Dinner: Two chicken tacos, topped with a small amount of natural shredded cheese, chopped onions, and shredded cabbage. Serve with ½ cup of rice, seasoned with cilantro and lime juice.
Dessert: One medium apple, sliced and baked with cinnamon.
Overall, what you want to pay the most attention to is sodium content. To combat this issue, always read labels and wherever possible, make your foods homemade to avoid added salt and other ingredients. Depending on what stage of kidney disease you are in, you may need to limit phosphorus and potassium as well.
This meal plan accounts for all three of these issues. In fact, this meal plan also focuses on some of the top recommended foods for kidney disease patients, such as cabbage, bell peppers, onions, and berries. You can easily use this as a base example of what foods are good for you to eat, including snacks and even desserts, so that you can build a successful kidney disease meal plan from here.
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Renal Diet Menu Headquarters - Renal Diets That You Will Love!
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