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Roast Chicken Meal Plan

This meal plan will suit people with an ideal body weight around 62kg, who have advanced kidney disease and require Haemodialysis or those who require a daily intake of 1960kcal and 70g protein.

Menu

Allowances

Breakfast
  • 2 Weetabix mixed with milk substitute & 1 tablespoon (15ml) of cream.
  • Cup of black tea or add milk substitute
  • Mid Morning
  • 1 medium pear
  • Cup of black tea or add milk substitute

  • 1 fruit
    Main Meal
  • 6 oz / 150g (cooked weight) Roast Chicken (with skin removed)
  • Served with 200g / 2 medium low potassium potatoes (with reduced fat spread added)
  • 1 portion (100g) of boiled carrots
  • Cup of water (from your fluid allowance)
  • 2 scoop / 200g of Vanilla Ice-cream and 110g of stewed apple (stewed in sugar)
  • Cup of black tea or add milk substitute

  • 6 protein (chicken)
    1 vegetable,2 potato,


    1 fruit, 1 dairy
    Mid Afternoon
  • 2 Ginger Nut Biscuits
  • Evening Meal
  • 1 small bowl (100ml approx) of Kidney Friendly Homemade Soup served with 1 small crusty white roll & reduced fat spread.
  • Cup of black tea or add milk substitute

  • 1 vegetable
    Before Bed
  • 2 x Rich Tea Biscuits with reduced fat spread
  • This 1 day meal plan provides 6 protein exchanges (allowances), 1 dairy exchange, 2 fruit portions, 2 vegetable portions and 2 potato portions. Check your daily allowances to see if you have enough for this meal-plan. If you require a daily fluid restriction (allowance), please include the soup as part of this.

    Total Nutritional Analysis

    1956kcal69g protein80g fat4.2g salt2236mg/ 57mmol Potassium29mmol / 900mg Phosphate251g Carbohydrate110g sugar

    [quote author=”Dietitian Tip” source=”” ]Ask your Kidney (Renal) Dietitian about a Low Phosphate Milk Substitute (link to milk substitute definition).

    Watching your Fluid?
    Remember to count your milk and milk substitute as part of your daily fluid intake.
    [/quote]

    *200ml milk substitute has been included in the analysis for this meal plan. Ask your Kidney (Renal) Dietitian about a milk substitute.