Sample diet plan.

[ZABohra]

Hi! I keep searching healthy substitutes and meal plans for liver patients and share it here so that it might help you too. I am sharing it as an advice and not challenging this to be accurate.

SAMPLE MENU

Breakfast

1 orange

Cooked oatmeal with milk and sugar

1 slice of whole-wheat toast

Strawberry jam

Coffee or tea

Lunch

4 ounces of cooked lean fish, poultry, or meat

A starch item (such as potatoes)

A cooked vegetable

Salad

2 slices of whole-grain bread

1 tablespoon of jelly

Fresh fruit

Milk

Mid-afternoon snack

Milk with graham crackers

Dinner

4 ounces of cooked fish, poultry, or meat

Starch item (such as potatoes)

A cooked vegetable

Salad

2 whole-grain rolls

Fresh fruit or dessert

8 ounces of milk

Evening snack

Glass of milk or piece of fruit

[AyrshireK]

Hi ZABohra - hope you got the leaflet I sent via email.

Whilst there is some good stuff in your suggested diet plan in advanced cirrhosis where weight and muscle loss is an issue the evening snack is far too small. It needs to have protein and carbohydrate - the suggested piece of fruit is insufficient and may cause issue with acid in the stomach overnight. My hubby was always told a glass of milk, slice of cake or biscuits etc so as to include both protein and a good source of slow release carbohydrate.

Due to his varices and portal hypertensive gastritis my hubby can not tolerate any acidic or citrus type fruits - they cause absolute agonising gastric pains which even his omeprazole can't deal with.

Hubby also finds the gap between breakfast and lunch very lenghty and has to snack mid morning and at regular intervals during the day.

I don't measure any quantities of his food and it has been magic the weight gain and muscle regrowth he's had - very rare in a patient with such advanced cirrhosis but something worked. So much so they've now told him to cut out his single ensure a day to prevent him gaining too much weight. Our liver specialist dietician is delighted with the types of food hubby eats and says he's/we're doing everything about right (we are lucky his appetite is good).

Katie

[Phoenixv in reply to AyrshireK]

Hi really promising can you let me know some of the foods your husband has for his night meal my husband looks awful having lost the weight with cirrhoses anything would help carry on doing the good work thankyou.

[AyrshireK in reply to Phoenixv]

Sent you a private message Phoenixv.