Stopping Kidney Disease Food Guide: A recipe, nutrition and meal planning guide to treat the factors driving the progression of incurable kidney disease

This will be a great book for our US cousins but the recipes aren't that great for those of us in the UK. Some will be useful and there's a lot of useful text at the beginning so all is not lost

Luckily I have American measuring cups already ... . They can be bought on Amazon I believe. I've tried a few of these recipes and they are delicious and so good to know they are hopefully nourishing my kidneys too ! I feel that maybe there's a glimmer of hope on the horizon as previously I was so confused with conflicting advice I shall be adhering to Lees advice for next 90 days so watch this space after next lot of bloods done ! Update...my bloods show GFR up from 52 to 62 !!! Up from Stage 3 to stage 2 CKD thanks to Lee Hulls kidney diet and acupuncture !!!

You do need to read 'Stopping Kidney Disease' also by Lee Hull first. It helps to give a baseline of understanding for what you will do and why. The book is good, but nowhere near comprehensive enough. A list of all basic foods and their content of Potassium etc would be really useful so that we can expand our base menus. The recipes in the book are really good especially showing the nutritional values as a percentage of what you should be eating in a day. But I would like to see a lot more of them.

I have found this book easy to follow and will be trying out some recipes if I can find same ingredients in our supermarkets.

This food guide is helpful but very limited in choices. If you want to know what to eat to help relieve your symptoms then this book does have a list of foods that are recommended to be safe without putting pressure on your kidneys. I tried this for a couple of weeks and found myself hungry and craving all sorts of foods, based on the small portions simply because I wasn't full. I have tried to expand my food list outside of what is in the book but its a challenge with all the things that need to be taken into account, low potassium, ORAC, AGE, PRAL. I will have to wait a couple of months for my next set of tests to see whether I have made any progress. None of the links in this book are working, everything redirects to the Albutrix site and there are no sharing of or more recipes to be found online as mentioned in the book, which is quite disappointing. The Albutrix site has no recipes and no community for readers to share ideas. Overall this is a good and needed guide to point you in the right direction of what you should and should not be eating. You may need to do a bit of of your own research to expand your food list and recipes based on the guidelines.

This book is amazing. Author Lee Hull, Thankyou so much. All his books are brilliant.

This starts with a quick summary of the key messages from the author's research heavy book also called Stopping Kidney Disease. It then goes on to provide a few sample recipes. Helpfully the book includes ingredients weight in grams as well as the American cup system. Unfortunately the analysis of common fruits and vegetables hasn't been translated into metric. Yes space in the table is limited so why not repeat the information all converted to 100g? A little bit of thought would have made this book much better. The ingredients haven't been translated so, for example, it lists arugula rather than rocket. The recipes may help to inspire you to create your own versions (would be much easier if the ingredient analysis was in grammes) or you can follow them. As they are, they didn't excite me. The author has done an extraordinary amount of work to help people with chronic kidney disease across these two books. For that I'm very grateful but I don't find either book very user friendly.

Not very informative

This cookbook has delicious recipes that are easy to make. If you are looking to increase fruits and vegetables in your meals this is a great cookbook. Just one or two recipes are worth the price of this cookbook because once you find your favorite recipes I believe you will then make them on a regular basis. I'm eating out of this cookbook for the most part, repeating recipes each week. Each recipe has a nice photograph plus cost analysis and nutrition facts. I don't see any sugar being used in these recipes, just calorie free sweeteners of your choice. The recipes are also low-salt to no salt so you can adjust your salt-intake as needed. At the end of the book there is a handy index, lists of recipes by cook time, preparation time and price. I found these recipes to be economical but it will depend on how much you need to get to start. I already have all the dried herbs and spices. You will need a blender for the smoothies and if you want to make the ice cream an ice cream maker is needed. Most of the fruits and vegetables are easy to find. The more I looked through this cookbook the more appealing the recipes became. So far the recipes I've tried have been great. I made 8 recipes so far: Stewed Cinnamon Apples - I used apple pie spice instead of the cinnamon. Omelet with Peppers and Onion - I used a whole egg instead of just the egg whites. Pineapple with Rum Sauce - I used apple juice in place of the water and rum and just used rum extract. I cut up the pineapple into little pieces and served them with ice cream. Basic Fruit Smoothie - I used mango and strawberries plus blueberries and froze all the fruit before making. I also used orange juice in place of the milk substitutes, water and other fruit. So easy to adapt. Coconut Macaroons - I loved these - they bake fast and are really easy to make. I used rice flour instead of tapioca flour and they worked perfectly. These are delicious treats and so healthy too. Sweet Potato baked in the oven - a 15 ounce one takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes. (so good) Tostada Salad – I ended up making the dressing out of mayonnaise and the lime juice, plus I put the chili powder and garlic powder in the dressing. I added plant chicken pieces and used jalapeno lime tortilla chips. I also roasted some chopped red onion with the corn. (I'm making this again soon!!!!) Ginger Garlic Vegetable Ramen Bowls – I used thin spaghetti instead of the mung bean noodles and made the umami sauce with low sodium tamari and water. I also used vegetable base plus water in place of the unsalted vegetable broth. I can have a little salt at dinner. Pumpkin Chili - Possibly one of the best recipes for using canned pumpkin ever! Will make this again! (I'm now making it with even a little more pumpkin and the sauce is delicious. I think I will use half a can for each recipe and then save half the pumpkin in the freezer for later. I also use two medium zucchinis instead of the eggplant...so all zucchini instead of eggplant and zucchini) - I'm now using the Happy Belly pumpkin puree and this recipe has become even more economical. I use vegetable base and water in place of the vegetable stock. Other recipes I want to try soon include: Cherry Lemonade Vegetable Fajitas Mushroom Bourguignon Vegetable Masala Corn Soup So I think you will really enjoy these recipes and there are plenty to choose from. I am already thinking of making the coconut macaroons again or even doubling the recipe! They are so good and are made with maple syrup. I can't wait to try more recipes and I hope more delicious recipes will be created even for a second cook book. I find these so easy to make especially if you prep the vegetables the day before and have them ready to go for the pumpkin chili. Then in 15-20 minutes, dinner is served. Enjoy! ~The Rebecca Review P.S. Update 6/25/2024 - So eating more vegetables and fruit really does work. My GFR is back up to 61 after it had fallen to 58. Making the pumpkin chili all the time has been a great idea! My goal is to get it back to 68 again. With this cookbook and some supplements I'm doing really well.

My husband is at end stage. If you have any % of kidney disease I cannot stress enough how much you need to alter your diet and lifestyle. I have for him and to preserve my health so I can care for him. Get both Lees books. Read and adhere to them. Dialysis is hell. Prevent it as long as you can. Drs didn’t give us the information we needed to help him, patched him up and sent him home for me to care for. This book is the most valuable information I have found thus far. Thank you to the author for sharing his education with us.

Namaste ,iam from Maharashtra India Go for right food than heavily rely on medicine .I will suggest this book to my relative who is on dialysis.

Some good recipes and info. Nice to have a paper copy to refer to without having to research online.

To cut down on shipping costs, I purchased the two books written by Lee Hull (the Food Guide and Stopping Kidney Disease). I immediately skimmed the pages and discovered a wealth of knowledge. This is a large book appropriate for both individuals with healthy kidneys and those who would like to learn more about CKD. The Food Guide includes illustrations, and Lee Hull offers recipes tailored for those with chronic kidney disease (CKD). You can adjust some of the components to fit your needs if you have diabetes, liver, or heart problems. The two books are providing you just enough advantage in your CKD journey; read with an open mind and remember that there is no one rule that fits all.