@dks, thank you for your kind words. Your eGFR sounds good to me, under the circumstances.

Like you, I couldn't find any good (and realistic) vegetarian and vegan diets and dietitians in my area knew even less than I did about meat-free kidney diets! So I had to find values myself for vegetarian kidney recipes and experimented in my own kitchen for a couple of years.

I can post links, the problem is that I have no links to my recipes to post because my research was published in pdf format and posted here as pdfs. My computer crashed about a year ago and the refurbished replacement pc won't allow me to post pdfs. However, if you contact @gingerw. volunteer mentor in the kidney thread, I'm sure she can show you where those recipe collections are.

When you find them, please bear in mind that nutritional values for some brands and some ingredients have changed. When I wrote the first recipes, potassium amounts were not required to be on a label, for instance, but now they are on most labels. Phosphorus content still is not on most labels, though.

A good way to check nutrient values is the USDA website and I have found good information also on Self.com, just google those and you can navigate to those sites.

Since I first started "concocting" recipes, too many manufacturers have altered ingredient amounts so some of the values in my earlier research may not be accurate.

This doesn't mean the recipes are no longer good; they are still very doable on a kidney diet. It's just that some of the nutrition amounts may need to be updated.

Please keep me posted about your journey. Hopefully Ginger can help you find the pdfs in one of the kidney threads.