The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Creative Cooking for Renal Diets,   ISBN:9780941511889

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This recipe book has a lot of variety for someone on dialysis. A renal patient is required to eat low potassium, low salt, low sugar foods. That doesn't leave much taste left. This book is excellent for allowing some of the forbidden foods to be incorporated into the diet.

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This book has been a blessing. It is so easy to follow! The receipes are great! There are a lot of receipes that we would normally eat. With these receipes my husband feels like he's eating a normal diet and not a "special renal diet". The receipes are easy to follow with foods I already have at home. It is a great value for the price! The print is large and easy to read. The nutrition information at the back of the book is great and neatly organized. The book is definitely worth purchasing! THANK YOU for this book!!

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I don't see how this is a renal cookbook. There is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much protein in these recipes....you would have to only eat the tiniest serving in order to be within your daily allowance of protein....it is more like a white trash recipe cookbook too....crappy, unhealthy, high fat recipes in HUGE print.
Not Recommended

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My mom was recently diagnosed with CKD. Even after talking with all the experts at the hospital she wanted a cookbook to help guide her while making meals. I ordered the book for her and reviewed it before she had a chance to check it out. I thought is was helpful. My mom liked it also.
1. The large print was great for my parents.
2. It had recipes that worked for everyday meals.
3. It had instructions about how to cook foods that tend to be high in Sodium and Potassium.
4. It had all the protein, sodium, potassium contents for each serving.
5. There are a lot of dessert recipes, but there was a nice selection of main dish and side dish recipes.

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There was no clarity or explainations on the renal diet other than the nutrient guidelines and most of the recipes were for more that 4 people. We are a family of 2 and this required me to try to modify the amounts of the recipes which meant the nutritional values were now inaccurate. I was hoping for more information regarding the renal diet.I tried several of the recipes and they were quite bland. Some had good ideas that could be expanded on. They used ingredients that I was told were now forbidden.