@gingerw, I have great news!

Some growers and distributors now are making available some foods kidney patients were told to avoid in the past.

My favorite grocery store now carries baby blonde and baby strawberry red potatoes in a steamable bag of 3 servings per bag. One serving is only five tiny potatoes. BUT! They are delicious and fillling. They are not meant to be peeled but can be and can be soaked 2 hours before preparing to reduce potassium, etc., even more than it already is. I don't steam the potatoes, I open the bag and take out 5 then re-seal and put the bag in the fridge, something you normally wouldn't do with potatoes but this keeps them fresh. 5 Hy-Vee baby potatoes = 80 cal 100.8 ? mg P 480 mg K 35 mg Na 2 Gm prtn. If you track your potassium intake and are in Stage 3, you probably aren't taking in more than 1500-1700 mg K daily and 480 mg of potassium in the mini potatoes approaches 1/3 of your daily potassium limit. If I'm careful to watch potassium content of other foods that day, these potatoes are an occasionable allowable treat!

More good news: 1 Italian or plum tomato averages 11.2 cal 14.9 mg P 147 mg K 3.1 mg Na 0.5 Gm prtn, well within mineral restrictions.

Frankly, there is no way on this green earth I could have only one avocado slice but half or even a whole Roma tomato is quite satisfactory, thank you very much, and so are 5 baby potatoes.

I'm working on a new recipe collection starring formerly "forbidden" foods. As always, all will be free of charge for anyone to copy, use, share, etc.

Stay tuned.

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