My wife has lost at least 50% of her kidneys and is on a restricted diet. It seems we are eating the same old stuff over and over. I would appreciate some menu ideas from those of you in a similar situation.

what can she eat. I am not familiar with kidney diets but we may be able to offer new ways to fix stuff she can eat.

I had to do a major overhaul on my diet when diagnosed diabetic.

I hope she adjusts to this ok. Has to be hard. Sorry to hear about it

I did a little looking and see that grapes , bulgar wheat and olive oil are all on a list of good for kidney

as long as Feta cheese isn't an issue here is a tasty way to eat more bulgar
https://www.pbs.org/food/recipes/bulgur-salad-with-grapes-and-feta-cheese/

I don't know anything about it either but I found these recipes from the Mayo clinic.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/recipes/kidney-renal-diet-recipes/rcs-20522796

Thanks for the input thus far. Sodium and potassium are no-no's. Not much meat, she may eat a meat serving that is about the size of a deck of cards. No ham, pork must be lean, chicken and lean beef are okay., as is fish. Pasta and potatoes are too high in potassium. Believe it or not she may not eat broccoli. She started this around the beginning of March. I pretty much eat what she does as I don't want her to look at my meal with envy, lol. I lost about 12 pounds. I think she lost close to 20.

Renal diets are pretty bland no salt, no potassium little to no phosphates. We set it up with double proteins if your on hemodialysis. Lots of just meats, and rice. If you do potatoes like mashed potatoes if you soak them over night in leech out the potassium. Usually set up like 8 oz of milk a day better off skim or 2 percent.

Does she like venison? Lean as it gets

I hope your wife's health improves and that you can find some meals you can enjoy together.

Keith

Been eating that way mostly since 2006 when they wanted me on dialysis twice a week(didnt do)you get use to it.

I cut salt out a couple years ago, try Mrs. dash, seasoning no salt, we use lots of garlic and pepper,

I was reading through some of the recipes on the mayo clinic site

if butter isn't an issue chicken Paraclade this is chicken , garlic and parsley , you can stretch it with some asparagus and server it over rice
omit the salt




you can also make this a bigger meal serving it over riced cauliflower for low carb. but it doesn't sound like she needs to avoid rice

we do a Lot of stir fry , we used to do them over rice

now we just ad more cabbage or zucchini and it is all veg with a little meat.

I have stage 3 kidney disease. I eat broccoli almost every day. I also like asparagus which I eat a lot of. What's supposed to be wrong with broccoli? These are my two favorite vegetables.
The nephrologist I see said little or no sodium and to drink lots of water. I had a list to what to eat or not to eat and broccoli wasn't on the list.

My advice would be to do a LOT of research for yourself. Lots of info on Pubmed, that will lead you to other resources. Dr Ken Berrys book " The Lies my Doctor Told Me" is very informative as well.

https://carnivore.diet/kelly-improved-kidney-disease-digestion-carnivore-diet/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk2OKJHdElM

I understand that Bruce Lee died from drinking too much water when he had kidney damage. Might want to study up on that angle.

You can go to DaVita (the dialysis center I use), davita.com is the address, and they have many kidney friendly diets ( over 1000 ) listed

We eat alot of fish and rice. I have to be careful on too much rice with diabetes. I truly believe living in S.E. Asia 10 yrs saved or prolonged my life due to leukemia and diabetes,hbp etc. Living an Asian diet I dropped alot of weight and was off diabetes med over there. I truly believe bland Asian diets have been keeping me alive. BLAND ASIAN not the all u can eat chinese buffets in usa. I also partake in coconut water alot. Cleans the kidneys. If I did half what drs wanted me to do I would be dead and my son would be orphaned. Far east meds and naturals are safer

Also, if diabetes ruined her kidneys, ampalaya is very good for that and diabetes.