What can I eat for breakfast with kidney disease?

Ask your Momma! Have you ever thought about how stressful it can become to prepare new dishes for the family every day? Can you think of the pain when the prepared meal gets rejected? Do you consider the time taken to prepare your breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner? Wait. Before skipping this content make sure that you really want to. The purpose of this content is to provide you the dual side of breakfast for kidney disease patients.

Those who are still at the back seat of approaching the wonders of Ayurveda must know that it is only your diet that plays a major role in the recovery and others are just the supporting factors. If you’re eatinghabits are good then you will be able to recover from kidney disease quickly. You must have also heard about the fact that you should never skip breakfast.

But as we all are aware of the fact that kidney patients are restricted to eat and drink because of the electrolytes and nutrients found in those foods. So, in such a scenario we are here to share a few breakfast recipes with you. We understand how boring and frustrating it is for a kidney patient to eat tasteless meals and so, here are two easy breakfast recipes for kidney disease patients:

• Cabbage rice
• Poha

Cabbage Rice:

Cabbage is a kidney-friendly vegetable that helps in repairing the damaged cells, tissues and walls of kidneys. According to the kidney experts of Ayurvedic kidney disease treatment, consumption of cabbage should be done at 10 to 15 days of intervals and if you are on dialysis then you might have to contact your healthcare provider for specifications. Rice, on the other hand, are allowed to kidney patients but depending on the seriousness of the disease. Here is the recipe of cabbage rice:

You will need:

• 1 Cup grated cabbage
• 1 Cup boiled rice
• 1 tablespoon cumin seeds
• 2 tablespoons virgin olive oil
• ½ tablespoon black salt
• ½ tablespoon black pepper
• ½ tablespoon coriander powder
• A dash of turmeric
• 1 cup finely chopped onion
• 1 cup pomegranate
• Fresh coriander leaves

How to do it:

• Take a non-stick pan and add virgin olive oil. Let it heat and add cumin seeds
• When the cumin pops add onion and sauté till it changes to a golden brown.
• Add cabbage and cook for another 5 minutes
• Now all the spices and cover the pan with a lid for another five minutes.
• Add rice and mix it well.
• Cover the lid for 2 minutes.
• Add pomegranate and coriander.
• Serve hot!

Poha:

Poha is flattened rice that is light and filled with nutrition. It is a great source of iron, and because of vegetables, it becomes a wholesome source of other essential nutrients too.

You will need:

• 1 cup soaked poha
• ½ cup diced onion
• ½ cup diced bell pepper
• ½ cup carrot
• 3 to 4 curry leaves
• ½ tablespoon mustard seeds
• 3 to 4 tablespoons virgin olive oil
• Salt to taste
• 1 tablespoon black pepper
• 1 tablespoon coriander powder
• A pinch of turmeric
• ½ tablespoon fennel seeds
• ½ tablespoon sugar
• 1 cup pomegranate
• Fresh coriander leaves

How to do it:

• Take a pan and add oil.
• Add curry leaves & mustard seeds, let it pop and then add onion, bell pepper, and carrots.
• Cover the pan with a lid and let it cook for 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, take a bowl and add poha, sugar, fennel seeds and ½ spoon salt. Mix it well.
• Open the lid and check if the vegetables are soft by now or not.
• Add all the spices and mix it well. Now add poha and cover the lid for another 5 minutes.
• Add coriander leaves and pomegranate and mix it well.
• Serve hot!

So, these were the easy recipes that kidney patients can have as breakfast. Kidney diseases are progressive diseases that don’t stop until they get treated with accurate treatment. The kidney diet plays an almost fifty percent role in the recovery and for the same, the patients need to be extra cautious about what he/she eats and drinks. You can have juices along with your breakfast like bottle gourd juice, orange juice, lemon juice, pomegranate juice, and sapodilla juice but only with the consent of your nephrologists.

There is a lot of confusion between what to eat and avoid, which is why you would need an expert’s guidance. Just like the vulnerability of each individual differs, so does the medical history. There are many types of kidney diseases and disorders that enable or disables the channels depending on the criticality of the disease. You should never try to make any kind of alteration in your diet chart or breakfast recipes because it has been designed and recommended after a deep analysis only. Also, whatever you hear and see about the consumption of things by kidney disease patients, do verify and gain the trust of your nephrologist and dietitian.