The Fridge List
The whole guide on one page: the everyday rules, what to ask about first, and when to get help.
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What to eat, based on your own lab results
Clear food guides for people living with kidney disease. Every number comes from United States Department of Agriculture data, and the advice follows the current clinical guidelines.
Free printables
Print as many copies as you like. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay. Each one opens as a PDF on letter-size paper.
My Numbers Card
Write down your eGFR, potassium, phosphorus and the other results that decide what you can eat. Print a fresh one for each appointment.
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Questions for My Doctor
Nine questions to take to your next appointment, with room to write the answers.
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Two Weekly Shopping Lists
Everything the two weeks of sample days in the kidney guide use, added up by aisle, with boxes to tick.
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Foods That Fit Every Lane
116 foods that are lower in sodium, potassium and phosphorus at the portion shown. The short answer to “What can I eat?”
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Sodium Day Tracker
Write down what you eat for one day and add up the sodium from the labels. A good way to find where your salt comes from.
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Label Check Cards
Four wallet cards with the four things to look at on a food label. Cut them out and keep one with your shopping list.
Open the PDFWant them all? One file with every printable, 9 pages.
Open all printables- How to printOpen the PDF, then choose Print. Letter-size paper, “actual size”.
- Color or black and whiteBoth work. The pages are designed to stay clear without color.
- No printer?A library or a copy shop can print a PDF from your phone or email.
The guides
Each guide covers one condition and one stage, because the right advice depends on both.
Coming soon
Stage 3 Kidney Disease Food Guide for Seniors
What to eat, limit and check, based on your own lab results. By Rafiq Khan, MD, PhD.
- 319 everyday foods, each with its sodium, potassium, phosphorus, protein and carbohydrate for an ordinary portion
- Three simple lanes: sodium for everyone; potassium and phosphorus only if your blood levels are high
- Two weeks of sample days with shopping lists, every total calculated
- Large print, illustrated, no photos
How the books are built
You, your family and your doctor should be able to check where the advice and the numbers come from.
2clinical guidelines: KDOQI 2020 (United States) and KDIGO 2024
(international). Where they differ, the book gives both figures.
5national health bodies’ patient information: the National Kidney
Foundation, CDC, NIDDK, FDA and Medicare.
319foods, with every food figure calculated by computer from USDA
FoodData Central.
What the books do not do
- They do not promise to cure kidney disease or to restore kidney function. No diet has been shown to do that.
- They do not work out a personal daily target for you. Your doctor or dietitian does that, from your blood results.
- They do not endorse any brand, product or company.
Who is behind them
The guides are medically reviewed and edited by the author, Rafiq Khan, MD, PhD, a physician. They were not reviewed by a dietitian. They are published by Deepwaters Press.