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As a registered and licensed dietitian, Jamie Yetman Finnicum advises patients on how to eat for optimal health. Many patients starting on dialysis need changes in their diet, and Jamie Yetman Finnicum helps them make these adjustments easier. While she advises a visit to a registered and licensed dietitian like herself if you are experiencing kidney problems or recently starting kidney dialysis, she has listed some kidney-friendly super foods to consider. 1. Cabbage Raw cabbage makes a great addition to the dialysis diet as coleslaw or topping for fish tacos. You can steam, microwave or boil it, add butter or cream cheese. 2. Cauliflower Serve it raw with dip, add it to a salad or steam or boil it and season with spices. You can also make a nondairy white sauce, pour it over the cauliflower and bake until tender. You can pair cauliflower with pasta or mash cauliflower as a replacement for mashed potatoes. 3. Garlic Buy it fresh, bottled, minced or powdered, and add it to meat, vegetable or pasta dishes. You can also roast a head of garlic and spread on bread. Garlic provides a delicious flavor and garlic powder is a great substitute for garlic salt in the dialysis diet. 4. Onions Eat onions raw on burgers, sandwiches and in salads, cook them and use as a caramelized topping or fry them into onion rings. 5. Apples With versatile apples, you can eat them raw, make baked apples, stew apples, make them into apple sauce, or use in a dessert such as apple pie or apple cake. You can also drink them as apple juice or apple cider. 6. Cranberries Cranberry juice and cranberry sauce are the most frequently consumed cranberry products. You can also add dried cranberries to salads or have them as a snack. 7. Blueberries Buy blueberries fresh, frozen or dried, and try them in cereal, topped with whipped topping, in a fruit smoothie or bake blueberry muffins, blueberry cake as blueberry crisp or blueberry pie. 8. Red grapes Buy grapes with red or purple skin since their antioxidant content is higher. Freeze them to eat as a snack or to quench thirst for those on a fluid restriction for the dialysis diet. Add grapes to a fruit salad or chicken salad. You can also drink them as grape juice. 9. Egg whites Buy powdered, fresh or pasteurized egg whites. Make an omelet or egg white sandwich, add pasteurized egg whites to smoothies or shakes make deviled egg snacks or add whites of hard boiled eggs to tuna salad or garden salad to add extra protein. 10. Fish The American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association recommend eating fish two or three times a week. Fish highest in omega-3s include albacore tuna, herring, mackerel, rainbow trout and salmon. These are just a few foods included in the diet plan that Jamie Yetman Finnicum may put her patients on. It may be hard at first, which is why you have the assistance of dietitians like Jamie Yetman Finnicum. Jamie Yetman Finnicum is trained to help you implement these great foods into your new kidney-friendly diet. With the advice and recipe ideas Jamie Yetman Finnicum will equip you with, you’ll find your lifestyle change to go much smoother than you thought. Sources: http://jamieyetmanfinnicum.magnt.com/
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