Renal Diet Podcast 085: Tips for Meal Prepping On A Renal Diet and More

Podcast #85 Released on March 16, 2018
This morning, I am really excited to talk about this perfect topic which is a combination with our new spice line. I’m going to give you the chance to go to our website and sign up to be notified to be the first one when we’re ready to release and we’ll be releasing in late April, early May.
I’m currently working on recipes for our new spice line. It’s going to be called Nickanny’s Kitchen and Nickanny’s is the combination of my son’s name Nicholas and my daughter Bethany and it’s kind of spelled a little weird it’s N-I-C-K-A-N-N-Y apostrophe s but easy for you to go over to the website renaldiethq.com/spices and that’ll take you to a sign up for to get on the list for the early adopters and to get to know more about spices and what we’re doing with our spice line. Head on over there sign up I’ll let you know kind of what’s going on, you’ll get a little sneak peek.
Just want to let you know let you be some of the first because I’m so excited it’s salt free. It’s I’m going to have potassium and phosphorus content on the label so that is something that I know you crave and you really want and these spices are made with you in mind. Definitely! So, that all said I’m excited to talk about meal prep being on a renal diet because it goes so well with spices.
You need to follow your diet, right? That’s why I’m a dietitian. I tell you to follow your diet, you know if you follow your diet you get healthier, you get feeling better but sometimes it’s hard because you have lots of things going on.
By taking the time to prep your meals you’re deciding ahead of time what you’re going to do and that takes a lot of the will power and the frustration out of the process and that’s a big thing like “If I have to choose and I don’t have any fruit, I’m going to pick something probably not as healthy for me. If I have fruit there and I know that’s what I was planning on eating is for my snack that’s I’m just going to go grab that and come back and eat it so you continue to eat healthy no matter how hectic life gets, it encourages you to plan ahead.
One of the biggest things is you think about like what you’re going to do for that week and if your kids are doing something in the evening or if you have an event if you have Bingo, if you have whatever like a Quilting Club – all of those things – you can look at and say “Okay, this week I have this coming up on Tuesday I’m going to be really super busy, I need to have a plan for that, I need a prep for that, I need to put food in the crock-pot for that day so everybody has something to eat” and it keeps you from grabbing fast food or grabbing not so healthy for you.
I want to give you some tips for a healthy renal diet and the first tip is that you need to understand your dietary restrictions. Sometimes, I start thinking everybody’s restricted on phosphorus and potassium because I get a lot of questions about that but the truth is, with a renal diet most the time you’re not restricted on those things. You’re usually restricted on sodium, salt and you’re usually restricted on protein a little bit especially if you’re pre-dialysis but other than that, your restrictions are going to vary depending on your stage and where you’re at. You just need to watch the salt, watch the protein and whatever additional restrictions you have. But knowing and understanding those are the key to having a better plan, a better prep.
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