Hey there! My name is Anthony Valentine and I had my Kidney Transplant on January, 31st 2019. I am very blessed to have had my mother as my live donor, and we're both doing great with our recoveries.
I wanted to share my online community with fellow kidney patients, in hopes of helping with nutrition and eating healthy with CKD, pre and post transplant.
Eating doesn't have to be hard with CKD, and can be delicious! I hope to help others with nutrition and their CKD diets.
With a degree culinary arts & nutrition from the University of New Hampshire, my post transplant CDK diet has come a bit easier for me than it would for others.
Congratulations on your transplant. What a wonderful experience to be so well trained in culinary arts. I'm one of those "just throw a few things together" type cooks and it always tastes great. I guess because I've had CKD for over 40 years and on dialysis 17 years I don't give recipes much thought as by now it just comes naturally for me. I wish you and your mother well and may you both have decades of dialysis free living. Congrats! I will share your Facebook group with my friends. Blessings #kindredkidneys
Wishing you the very best with your kidney transplant. I’ve had CKD for a little under 5 years as a result of ANCA vasculitis. I’m never sure of what I should or shouldn’t be eating. My lab work is done every month & I’ve Met with a dietitian, but still find it bothersome & challenging to track my potassium, phosphorus, & sodium. Plus, some of my absolute favorite foods are high in those particular things. If you can help with solutions to that particular problem, I would be ever so grateful. Sometimes I feel like there’s nothing I can eat except white bread, white rice, apples, grapes, & cucumbers. I may as well die of malnutrition now!!
Hey! Thanks for the kind words. Before my surgery I was eating lots of white bread and white rice also. After my surgery, I'm eating only whole grain breads and rices!
If you go to cukebook.org. I will be frequently posting low sodium, low potassium and low phosphorus meals, snacks and other ideas.
I've also written guides to eating on low potassium, phosphorus and sodium which you can find here: cukebook.org/guides/
Feel free to ask me anything by contacting me through the website!
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