Diabetes and CKD Recipes
For people with chronic kidney disease (CKD), understanding how nutrition can affect their health is very important. For people with diabetes and CKD, there is added concern about controlling blood sugar levels, and special diets are usually prescribed by health care professionals. Sometimes having the right recipes helps people with diabetes and CKD adhere to their diet.
Below is an example of a meal plan that meets the nutritional goals of people with diabetes and CKD stages 1-4. Bear in mind that it’s always important to check with your health care professional because nutritional recommendations can be different based on stage of CKD, and meal plans should be individualized, for example, the potassium content of this meal plan may be high for people with CKD stages 3 and 4. If you are not sure of your stage of CKD, ask your health care professional. A professional chef designed the menu and accompanying recipes in collaboration with registered dietitians experienced with diabetes and CKD.
If you are on dialysis, please check with your dietitian or other member of your health care team before using this meal plan and these recipes.
Sample meal plan
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Breakfast
Start the morning right with a healthy and hearty kidney-friendly breakfast.
- Peanut Butter Oatmeal
- Fresh Sliced Pears
- Very Berry Smoothie
Lunch
- Baked Salmon with Roasted Asparagus on Cracked Wheat Bun
- Roasted Asparagus Spears With a Spicy Tofu Hollandaisea
- Sliced Pineapple With Strawberry Lemon Thymeb Sorbetc
Snacks
- Mixed Nuts
Dinner
- Grilled Vegetables on Bulgur Pilaf d
- Sliced Avocado
- Rum-Baked Apples
- Hollandaise is traditionally a butter, egg yolk, and lemon juice emulsified sauce.
- Lemon thyme is a fresh herb that has a lemon wood like flavor.
- Sorbet is frozen fruit juices or fruit puree with no milk product.
- Bulgur is a wheat berry with the bran removed, steam-cooked, dried, and ground.
Additional Recipes
Vegetables
No diet is completely balanced without vegetables.
