Customer Reviews

The Renal Patient's Guide to Good Eating: A Cookbook for Patients by a Patient

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This is the first book I have retuned to Amazon!

I was, at first, impressed by the per serving numbers given at the bottom of every recipe -- all so wonderfully low! Then when I got around to reading the actual ingredients I found the author expects everyone to eat less than my 9# Shih Tzu (and ingredient combinations most dogs would refuse). The portions are ALL extremely small! Eating only what this author recommends would be a starvation diet for most adult renal patients, and especially for my 210 pound husband. By the time I doubled the portion sizes the nutritional values were near what I usually prepare from my regular recipes using low sodium products, and fresh ingredients.

Many of the recipes had ingredient combinations I would never have tried. I know my husband won't eat any kind of fruit preserves on any kind of meat. Though some of the desserts looked yummy the portions sizes were almost infinitesimal

If the book were $9.95, I probably would have kept it for some of the tips like soaking fresh vegetable overnight to leech out the naturally occurring elements my husband must limit. But at the current price it was not worth it.

Also, there was a printing error which omitted the index pages from the letter D to letter P, but I would have returned it even if all of the pages had been there.

This book might be more useful with a higher kidney function, but we bought the book with less than 20% function, and most of the recipes include low sodium soy sauce and parmesan cheese, and we have to keep sodium levels too low for that, so I really couldn't use any of the recipes.

Many of us kidney patients need to eat a low-protein diet to avoid dialysis. This book does not address protein at all!! It lists several delicious-looking, low-sodium recipes that are probably fine for dialysis and transplant patients. But for me? Worthless. I'm sending it back for a refund.

This cookbook is quite expensive, but a very good cookbook. I believe the recipes are very good, but for a single person to use each recipe for one or two servings, recipes would have to be converted. Each recipe in the book is giving amounts for 4, 8 or 16 or more servings. I would like to have had recipes I could cook without all the extra work of conversion. BJC

Woah! Looking at the high price of this book, I'm a bit cautious on purchasing it. I checked out the local library and found a copy there to read. I tried cooking a couple of the recipes and I'm very pleased at the results! They were both tasty meals and very flavorful. I would like to have a copy for my kitchen library but cannot see spending that much money.

Great cookbook and introduction to the renal diet. Definitely helped alot when I was learning the aspects of the renal diet. Very helpful learning tool. I would recommend this book.

I checked 6 books out of the Hawaii State Library system after our latest visit to the "kidney doctor" to try to figure out what to cook for my husband. This book contains many delicious recipes. Unfortunately there are not many that work for someone diabetic with Stage IV kidney disease. His restrictions are no red meat, no fish, no dairy, low postassium. There are a couple vegetable recipes I am going to try; most of the others in here would require a lot of revamping to be useful to us.
Suggestion: Cooking for David has a lot of recipes that work without modification because they include a lot of vegetables--and the ones my beloved spouse can eat!

For the person who wrote the previous review regarding the missing index, there is nothing missing from the index. There are several major categories in the index, such as Bread, Desserts, Poultry, Meat, and so on. The major sections are listed alphabetically and then all of the various index entries for each food type are listed alphabetically in each major category. In typeseting the index, however, someone included capital letters, such as "A" preceding the Appetizer section, and this shouldn't have been done because of the way the index was compiled and it may be confusing at first glance. Steps are being taken to modify this in future printings, but the book has sold very well for the publisher. It is a specialty book, but even so the paper edition is 226 pages with 30 illustrations and is very reasonably priced at $36.95.

I need to know, if this book contain any table whit propiety abaut the fooods, by example , Na , P ,K , Ca , Proteins , Calorias , and others. I need this becose i'm renal transplantete and my P and K is high. I have to do a regimen nutritius.

I need to know, if this book contain any table whit propiety abaut the fooods, by example , Na , P ,K , Ca , Proteins , Calorias , and others. I need this becose i'm renal transplantete and my P and K is high. I have to do a regimen nutritius.