Breakfast ideas for kidney stone prevention

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Welcome back to the Kidney Stone Diet Podcast. The show about reducing your kidney stone risk and living your best life. I'm your host and fellow student, Jeff Sarris.

And I'm Jill Harris, and no, we're not related, your kidney stone prevention nurse.

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I'm just wondering what are we doing today?

Oh, yeah. I mean, we were going to go back to another listener question about We were talking before about the giveaway that we're doing for the channel and yeah. You want to talk about that for a second?

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Yeah! Yeah, let's do it!

This is coming from Mary.

Mary.

Hi, my name is Mary. I just started watching Jill and I really, love her talks. And right now she's talking about things to have for breakfast and that has I'm just running out of ideas, I guess.

I want to know if what I'm doing, if that's okay. I had some red pepper, some celery,

Some carrots, some cottage cheese, and a boiled egg. And I just don't know if it's got too much oxalates in it or if it's fine or whatever. And my name is Mary and

I'll cut– I'll cut it there because she does leave her number, so I'm going to chop it there. But, yeah, thank you, Mary, for your call!

Oh, you don't want to– Yeah. Mary, it's a great question and I think, look, this is the reason why we have the meal plan subscription. I get people all the time that say, "I'm so I'm petrified because I'm eating these things, but I don't have an oxalate count for these things."

So, there's a meal plan subscription. It's $19 a month. Do it 1 month and cancel if you don't want it anymore.

There's over 100 recipes a month, so, and in that, I have calculated the salt, the added sugar, the oxalate, so you never have to worry about that again.

It's done for breakfast, snack, lunch, and dinner. So, it's ideas and inspiration. So, Mary, get that.

Like I said, do 1 month. You'll have more recipes than you could ever dream of, all the oxalate figured out for you. And the reason we came up with that meal plan subscription, I had no idea she was going to ask this.

I just, I'm telling you, and I don't feel bad about promoting this because it's extremely cheap, as all our products are, but it's so helpful to patients because what I get coming to me is, "Jill, I'm petrified. I'm eating nothing all day long because

I'm afraid I'm eating too much oxalate." That's number one, so people restrict themselves too much. And, not to be dramatic, but if you heard what I heard all day long, you'd understand people are anxious about this because kidney stones, boom! They just get you.

You don't know what's going on, and all of a sudden, you get this pain, and you're being sent to the and it's really scary. It's that kind of pain.

So, when you hear the word "oxalate", you're freaking out, not a judgment, a fact. And so you– I can't tell you how many people come to me to gain weight after they've had a kidney stone because they're so petrified, you know, thinking, I always feel so bad for people because they're petrified eating anything now, and it's a problem.

So, she listed all those things that she's eating for breakfast.

You know, celery tends to be a little high. How high? Like you can't have it high?

Absolutely not! You can certainly have the things that you ate. It's always going to depend on the portion size and how many times you're eating these things.

I don't want people eating the same breakfast every single day. That's so boring, and I know people are like, " it's easy for me." But think about this machine! You think it wants oatmeal every day for the next 30 years?

I mean, come on!

Mix it up! Another reason why I did the meal plan, you can see there's a million different things you can have for breakfast. By the way, if you wanted a pot roast for breakfast, leftover dinner, I don't know why we let the clock dictate what kind of food we eat, so just going off on a tangent, but you can eat all kinds of things.

We're so limited we're very self-limiting, sometimes, in the way we think. So, what I would suggest,

We have there's an there's at kidneystonediet.com, the Help page, there is a little section there that shows you how to put an oxalate app on your phone. It's actually the Harvard list, but Jeff actually figured out how to make this a little app-like thing on your phone, so you can figure out, I'm taping on my phone, so I can't do it, but I just go to the little app on my phone and I can see how much oxalate's in celery.

So, you can always find that on the oxalate list. Go to kidneystonediet.com, the Help section, and there's instructions on how to put that app on your phone, so it's always handy for you. So,

What I would say to Mary is ideas for breakfast, get the meal plan for $19. But ideas for breakfast are this: maybe Mary doesn't have a $19, so I'm going to give her some ideas. I love doing things like this.

I will have leftover dinner, sometimes, for breakfast. I love Greek yogurt. If you don't do dairy, you can do coconut yogurt, unsweetened, these things are.

I like to put a little fruit in there. I don't use any sweetener in it. I use the normal fruit as just, you know, no added sugar, but it puts some sweetness in there.

Sometimes, get guess this! And people are going to say, "She says why I can't have no protein powder ever." No, I have never said that. I'll say that should not be a meal replacement,

Just protein powder and water. That's not fun. You need to chew your food.

Sometimes, because I love vanilla so much and I'm so glad that's not high oxalate, I like to put like half a scoop of my vanilla protein powder in my yogurt, because it's plain nonfat Greek yogurt, and it puts a little bit more protein in there for me, and it really I love vanilla, so it adds that for me, and it makes me more full, so I have that.

I do a lot of toast, a lot of gluten-free toast, and I will put all kinds of things, different berries, different fresh herbs,

Cheeses, of course, lower sodium cheeses. I will do oatmeal. I will do I, sometimes, will do cereal with some fruit on top and my coconut milk.

Sometimes, I'll do like a flatbread and I'll put stuff on there. I mean, I do all kinds of things. Sometimes, I do I mean, I can't even think off the top of my head because we all know I don't prepare for these things.

Buy the meal plan. There's tons of stuff there. But sometimes, I won't Sometimes, I don't have breakfast.

Say I'm really busy in the morning and I'm really not that hungry, so I will move it back and have more of a, you know, a brunch kind of thing. I definitely have eggs.

I like to have egg sandwiches, sometimes with bread, sometimes with just lettuce, a tortilla, but eggs are a big deal for me, too. I love them. Sometimes, I do egg white omelettes with vegetables inside.

So all different kinds of things. Think of any food you like. Forget about breakfast food!

Think of any food you like, and have it for breakfast! And, at first, it may be a little weird. There's not Many people watching

Have tried this: "Paul, let's have eggs for dinner." "Really? We're going to have breakfast for dinner? How exciting!" Well, have dinner for breakfast.

We've all done that. It's fun to have like scrambled eggs and bacon or something, low sodium bacon. If you're doing that, that's fine.

I also have, in my meal plan service, too, I do have this, pumpkin pancakes! I like to use coconut flour or I have a no carb pancake. Use a lot of egg whites with that one.

All kinds of things in the meal plan you ain't thinking about, so lots of fun things. But it's a great question, and I heard the trepidation in her voice when she said, "you know, is that okay?" So, I'm very in tune to hear- hearing,

You know, that concern and little bit of anxiety when people are eating something and they're like, "God, I hope this isn't going to give–" It's not about just the oxalate for them. They're like, "I hope this isn't going to land me in the!" That's what they're thinking, really. That's what their heart's saying, not about oxalate.

So, what you had for breakfast is absolutely fine, but you I don't want you to have it every day. That would be terribly boring. So, mix it up a little.

So, think about getting the meal plan. If you don't want to spend the $19 on the meal plan, there's some recipes at kidneystonediet.com. You can go there, but, you know, just think outside of the box.

You can Google. Google

Some different breakfasts, if you'd like to do that. But, as far as the oxalate level, you're never going to find that anywhere, so the meal plan will have all the oxalate figured out for you and so that's Look, that's the real benefit of the meal plan, just the ideas. And, also, all the education that I give with each recipe.

It's not just a recipe, it's why I did what I did, different things you can do to change it up. It's very valuable. I'm very pleased with that service, and it's helped a lot of people.

So, check that out, Mary. What else did I miss there?

Oh, no. Yeah, absolute- like all that, I wanted to just touch real quick. I threw it up on the screen, I'll pop it up there one more time, but, yeah, just kidneystonediet.com/recipes.

And you'll see here that right at the top, you can filter by meal as well. There's a handful of recipes, I mean, there's a lot of recipes out there, a handful specifically for breakfast and like Jill said, so many different options that you can have that aren't necessarily breakfast first even. But if you did want to dive into meal plans, I'm just going to show you real quick, just once you subscribe, you have a dashboard like this.

You see my little face in the corner. Yeah, you just click on meal plan, your meal plan, and then you get a unique plan to you every week. So, you have your breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner that you see here, and it will it'll change it up every week for you for inspiration on what you can do.

So, yeah, I just wanted to give you sort of a an idea of what it looks like, but, definitely, like we have a bunch of free recipes on the site already. So, so much free content out there that you can get that inspiration for that next meal. And like Jill said, like I like I really like having like a dinner or a lunch for breakfast.

It's just like for me, I love that like savory and the protein, and I feel better with protein than sweet, so I

Me, too.

Almost universally don't have anything sweet until late in the day, just because that's what works best for me. But that's part of it, too, is figuring out how we each feel best in the morning. But there's so many different options out there.

It can be it can be daunting once we sort of realize how many options there are.

Yeah, and I think the meal plan service, if one thing people have said, "Oh, my god, there's so many things. Who would ever think about this kind of stuff?" But because I don't like eating the same thing all the time, it's not like I don't get in my little ruts, sometimes, you know. But, you know, I really do like It's just fun for me to think of new things to eat and how I can put things together, and especially using fresh herbs when you're on a low-salt diet.

That's really important, too. So, for breakfast, Mary, lots of times, I'll do like, like I said, I'll do a toast and like ricotta cheese, a lower-sodium ricotta cheese, and all these fresh herbs. So, I'm getting my calcium, but I'm getting the, you know, like blackberries and tarragon.

I like really mixing it up that way. So much fun and super easy. Here's the thing about the meal plan: it's simple, it's safe, kidney stone safe, and it's satisfying.

So, that's it's it's all of it. None of these recipes, because I don't have time, are laborious. Most of them, the breakfasts are like 5 minutes, so no joke.

It's not like anybody's in the kitchen. I'm not doing that in the morning, I can assure you. So, these are foods I eat and you'll like them.

That's the end of that story, so.

Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, thank you, Mary, for your question. If you have a question and you want it answered on a future episode, that number again is 773-789-8763 and we'd love to have your voice on the show.

But, yeah, I think this is a good spot to wrap. So, we will Yeah, we have everything going on as usual with the weekly email that you can find on the website at kidneystonediet.com, where Jill sends out a free weekly email just to keep you on track, and all the free content there, the Facebook group. I like to just sort of mention it just in case someone's coming in new, fresh to the podcast here.

But, tons of free resources along with the premium content. I know we talked a little more about the meal plans this time. Again, you can find it at kidneystonediet.com, but so much free stuff, too, to help you out.

And for those of you who have subscribed and hit that little bell, like thank you so much for helping us reach our goal because we're we're getting really close, like almost to that 5,000.

We are, and also Yes, and also the comments have been so r- robust. Thank you! Thank you, YouTube community.

Thank you for in joining in the comments. I was going through all of them this morning. It's like, you guys, I love having a robust community.

Let's stick together, keep together, and talk about stones, and make sure we're getting them prevented. So, thanks for writing in the comments below. It's wonderful.

Good to see everyone.

Yeah, so thanks again and we'll see you next time.

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