Home Meals Today

First whole day of eating outside the hospital with new kidney. I was just focused on a few things:

• cooked
• low carbohydrate (~250 g per day)
• lowish fat
• low sodium
• low potassium (for now)
• high phosphorus (if possible)

For breakfast, I had some oatmeal, two pieces of white toast, and two fried eggs but only one egg yolk. For lunch, my parents went to Trader Joe’s and got a package of their Mandarin Orange Chicken. I cooked some white rice, made the entire bag, and cooked some green peas. We all ate from it and there was probably a serving left over. The only questionable part was the white rice. It came from a huge 25 pound bag from a Chinese supermarket so I don’t have the actual nutritional label handy. Finally, after a longish walk, I got lazy and got a small Jersey Mike’s turkey sandwich from across the street. I followed the dietician’s instructions and microwaved it for 15 seconds. Not enough to warm it up enough to taste weird, but supposedly enough to kill bacteria. Blood sugar ranged from 150 to 200 so I guess that’s okay. I also had some unsalted corn tortilla with the sandwich. I was trying to avoid salt and potatoes for now.

It’s a bit of work planning out menus. When I was married or lived by myself, I cooked quite a bit but never looked at labels. When I moved in with my parents again, they did most of the cooking and I just ate. After getting sick, I had to be more careful since Chinese food is not healthy nutrition friendly. You have to work at trying to get accurate nutritional information, especially from restaurants. I need to start doing stuff differently. I do feel like I have more energy so I can convert nap time to cooking time.

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A coworker also sent bunch of recipes so I have to give it a try.