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Low Protein Cookery for Phenylketonuria

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This book is one of the best helps in the world for those who are going to follow the "very low protein diet" for kidney disease to delay dialysis. The renal dietitians at JHU use this as their Bible in developing diet plans for Dr. Walser's patients. There are a number of helpful suggestions at the start of the book to teach you how to read labels and weigh foods. There are also lists that help you find low protein foods which are updated on the PKU web site. The restrictions on protein for the "very low protein" diet for kidney disease are not as severe as those for PKU, but this book teaches you how to meet those limitations.

Just keep in mind that it is not a great place to find vegetarian recipes. People with PKU cannot tolerate protein and take a special supplement to provide it. Therefore these recipes will not provide the protein that your average vegetarian will be looking for.

If, however, you or a member of your family has PKU, you should definitely get this book and read the whole thing. TWICE!

These women are saints!! There is not enough room on this forum to describe how amazingly awesome this book is. My 1 year old Niece has PKU, and luckily enough my nephew-in-law absolutely LOVES to cook. I got this for him (along with the PKU bread maker recipes) as a Christmas gift and he flipped! He said everything in the book looks fantastic, and there is literally everything from apples to zucchini. If you're needing a low protein diet book, or even just wanting to eat healthier, this is by far the best one out there. Thanks again to Virginia Schuett and Dorothy Corry for taking the time to make low-protein foods not so boring! Generations of PKU/Kidney patients and their families will be thanking you for years to come! I know this grateful Great-Aunt does.

My daughter is 27 now and we've been using an old version of this cookbook for something like the last 20 years. I never bought the special ingredients that some recipes need, but just reading the book from cover to cover gave me enough ideas on how to adapt regular recipes for her special restricted protein diet. There are other, newer cookbooks by Ginny Schuett, and also lots of on-line sites with recipes, but this is the original. Some sites also provide lists of other amino acids in these recipes, besides PHE.

The food in here is really good stuff! I especially love all the cookie recipies, I haven't made one I don't like! All the special food is expensive, but it's worth it. I really don't know how people managed a PKU diet before the book came out. If you can find the second edition, though, it's almost exactly the same page for page, and I like the spiral binding better, so the book lays flat when you're cooking.

I bought this because my future sister-in-law has PKU. Her mother recommended it, and the book does a good job of explaning questions I wouldn't even think to ask. It is full of information, recipes, and other resources. Some of the contact information for the specialty food distributors is out of date, but easily updated by doing an internet search of the companies and penciling in the new information. I'm not the best qualified reviewer for this book, but as far as I am concerned, it is an excellent resource.

My husband grew up PKU and had been on his diet the majority of his life when we met. When we got married I'd never dealt with cooking for a vegetarian, let alone low protein diet. So, I started hunting for resources. This cookbook has been an asset in our kitchen ever since. Highly recommended to those with PKU families, even more so for children! A lot of these recipes are family tested and even, in my case, non PKU diet approved. I can still make sure I get my daily essentials, but cook delicious meals for my husband as well. I've even been able to derive my own recipes from the things I've learned. Fantastic book. I highly recommend it!

You can count on this person's word. Good condition. Just as stated. The only book I found for low protein. My husband could only have 50 grams of protein a day.

As a mom of an 18-month-old afflicted benign hyperphenylalaninemia, which has just turned to hyperphe (benign hyperphe is a very mild form of PKU, and hyperphe is a less mild form), I was overjoyed when I got this book in. I tried to find recipes on the internet, but what I found were incredibly complicated and used ingredients that were not readily available to me. I tried to look at vegetarian dishes, but they rely heavily on beans and cheese, both high in protein!

When I flipped through the pages of the book, not only was I excited about the easy recipes using everyday ingredients, but it also gave ideas for resources to learn more about PKU, such as National PKU News. The author did extensive research in her home with each recipe, making it and having others taste them. I am very excited to try the over 400 recipes in this book!