Diabetes and CKD Recipes

For people with chronic kidney disease (CKD), understanding how nutrition affects their health is very important. Limiting the amount of protein in your diet may help slow CKD from getting worse. When protein intake is limited, sometimes the number of calories can be maintained by increasing calories from carbohydrates and/or fats. But, certainly, for people with diabetes and CKD, there is concern about controlling blood sugar levels.

Below is an example of a meal plan and recipes that meet the protein intake goals of people with CKD stages 1-4 and diabetes. Target dietary protein intake for people with diabetes and CKD stages 1-4 should be the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of 0.8 grams per kilogram body weight per day. Nutritional recommendations are different for people depending on their own situation and condition. So, before using these or any other recipes, check with your health care professional; these recipes may need to be individualized for you, even though they were designed by a professional chef working with dietitians experienced in CKD and diabetes.

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.

Lunch

Snacks

Dinner

  1. Hollandaise is traditionally a butter, egg yolk, and lemon juice emulsified sauce.
  2. Lemon thyme is a fresh herb that has a lemon wood like flavor.
  3. Sorbet is frozen fruit juices or fruit puree with no milk product.
  4. Bulgur is a wheat berry with the bran removed, steam-cooked, dried, and ground.

Additional Recipes

Vegetables

No diet is completely balanced without vegetables.