Cooking for David – Review and Giveaway – Ends August 4, 2012
| July 11, 2012 | Posted by Kelly under Giveaway, Review |
I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it is to cook for a family that consists of a picky eater, a kidney failure patient, and a teenager. Actually the teenager is pretty good about eating anything I put in front of her. The picky eater on the other hand doesn’t have any interest in trying anything new and her current favorites are limited. It was a surprise for me to learn that patients on dialysis had to eat a different diet. Depending on what type of dialysis, Hemo or Peritoneal, your food restrictions will be different.
My husband is on peritoneal and has to eat a low phosphorous diet. The list of foods high in phosphorous is unbelievable. I haven’t been able to find a complete list anywhere, but there are countless sites with partial lists out there. Here is a list from Kidney.org. What I would like is a list of foods he can have and I found that in a cookbook that my dear friend was kind enough to buy for me. It’s called Cooking for David by Sara Colman RD, CDE and Dorothy Gordon BS, RN.
This cookbook is more than just a book of recipes. It contains Meal Planning Tools, Food lists to help you decide what you can have and can’t have based on your form of dialysis as well as what your doctor prescribes, and even a food pyramid for renal dialysis patients. There are menu tools, meal planners, and help in figuring out your food choices. This cookbook, however, is great for anyone, not just dialysis patients, so the whole family can enjoy these recipes!
When I received the cookbook I had my husband mark all the recipes he wanted me to try. The recipe book contains 160 recipes, so considering the limits on dialysis patients, that is a lot to choose from. When I spoke with my hubby’s nutritionalist about what he can eat, she even recommended Cooking for David, saying it was the best cookbook for dialysis patients.
One of the recipes my husband selected was the Breakfast Sausage. The recipe was simple to follow, and even includes the nutrients per serving, the renal food choice count, and helpful hints! Hubby approves!
The authors of Cooking for David were generous enough to send me a copy to give away to one of my readers. Please let your friends and family know about this cookbook, because dialysis is overwhelming and having a cookbook to make life easier can be a real blessing for them.
To buy the book, please visit Culinary Kidney Cooks. The website even has a “Recipe of the Week”. Please share the link to their website on your blog and your Facebook page and help dialysis patients know there is a cookbook to help!
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Peaches are the third favoraite fruit.
i learned that the cookbook covers both non-diabetic diets and diabetic dialysis diets.
the recipe of the week is BBQ Sauce
I learned that the cookbook is full of practical renal diet guidelines and food preparation information, in addition to recipes, that you can use to prepare healthy, satisfying meals on a renal dialysis diet.
I like how they have a recipe of the week. This week it’s BBQ sauce and Hamburgers Cajun Style
I already mentioned in my previous post the recipe of the week!
I’m like the Hamburger Bun and Bread Nutrient Comparisons.
Yum! BBQ Sauce!
Cauliflower With Lemon Sauce
i learned cauliflower, the least colorful vegetable, has several nutritional benefits
Cauliflower With Lemon Sauce is the recipe of the week
Over 30k copies in print
Looks like they have a great variety of recipes. One of my cousins has kidney dialysis and this book will help with the preparing of healthy meals.
Recipe of the week Chicken Chow Mien.
I visited. It is the best-selling, most recommended dialysis cookbook available (over 30,000 copies in print) with 160 tested recipes
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Chicken Chow Mein is the Recipe of the Week
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The recipe was chicken chow mein.
Chicken Chow Mein
Visited website. Recipe of the week is Chicken Chow Mein.
They have a recipe for the week which is Chicken Chow Mein.
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I already said this for the first post because I did not realize you were going to ask but it is Chicken Chow Mein
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Chicken Chow Mein is the recipe of the week.
Chicken Chow Mein is the recipe of the week!
I visited Culinary Kidney Cooks! I think there is something for everyone on this site…Lots of great information, and some really tasty sounding recipes! Going to bookmark it for sure!
The book is only 25.95 plus tax, has 160 recipes, meal planning, but diabetic and non-diabetic plans. Sounds like a lot of good tips, and good sounding recipes.
Chicken Chow Mein
Their Chicken Chow mein recipe sounds good
Chicken Chow Mein is the recipe of the week
Helpful Hints of the Week -
Expanded dialysis nutrition
information about the
food in this week’s recipe.
I visited the site and looked at the healthy hints
Chicken chow mein is the recipe of the week
I stopped by the site, and I know nothing about kidney disease, so it was all new to me…I am glad that I am learning about it, you never know when you will need information like that!
BBQ sauce
The recipe of the week is Chicken Chow Mein which is actually my favorite Chinese dish.
Wow my first comment was what I learned that the recipe of the week was and now for the second comment it asks for the recipe of the week which is chicken chow mein. I hope both my comments count.
I visited. I love that the site has lots of great recipes.
This is such a neat product. I can’t think that there is a lot of resources availabe for kidney disease sufferers.
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