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Kidney Stone Safe Energy Balls

by Jill Harris, LPN, CHC on Oct 22, 2021
Kidney Stone Safe Energy Balls

I made this to show you that you can certainly still enjoy peanut butter. Many of you think you must never have it again on a low oxalate diet. Most of you can safely eat 100 mg/ox per day so you can definitely have these as a satisfying treat if you like. If peanut butter is a trigger food for you, meaning once you taste it you cannot limit it, then use sunbutter instead. It is lower oxalate. You can sub out the honey for sugar-free maple syrup if you like to cut down on the added sugar. This pairs nicely with a nondairy or dairy calcium-based product to help with oxalate absorption! Portion not perfection is the name of this game. Enjoy!

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  • Author: Jill Harris
  • Prep Time: 10 min
  • Cook Time: 0 min
  • Total Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

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  • 1.5 cup of Old fashioned oats
  • 2 tbsp Lilly’s stevia baking semi sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 cup of peanut butter

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl mix all the ingredients together.
  2. Roll into bite-size balls.
  3. Put in pan and place in fridge to set.
  4. They keep nicely in freezer and I like to put them there as I think about them less and therefore eat less!

Notes

Oxalate: 14mg/Energy Ball  Added Sugar: 1g  Calcium: 9mg

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 Energy Ball
  • Calories: 199
  • Sugar: 2g
  • Sodium: 36mg
  • Fat: 12g
  • Saturated Fat: 3g
  • Unsaturated Fat: 0g
  • Trans Fat: 0g
  • Carbohydrates: 17g
  • Fiber: 4g
  • Protein: 7g
  • Cholesterol: 1mg

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About the Author Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

Jill Harris is a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) who specializes in kidney stone prevention. Her goal is to teach you what you need to know and, more importantly, how to put that knowledge to work so you can stop forming stones. For good.

Comments

  1. Lauren Robinson

    October 23, 2021 at 7:20 am

    I love peanut butter energy balls but have been thinking I need to limit peanut butter. I have some “no sugar added sun butter “ I intend to use instead of peanut butter. Am I being overly cautious about peanut butter?

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    • Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

      October 25, 2021 at 8:52 am

      Hi Lauren,
      One of the reasons I use PB in my recipes is to show that you can still have some. Think portion not perfection. Make sure you get your oxalate food list, but even more importantly read what I have to say about oxalate and how many foods you can still eat! It is when we stick the spoon in the PB jar over and over AND not get enough daily calcium. Watch this from my YouTube channel
      :https://youtu.be/lV-eUPOwH1M

      Reply
  2. DIane Day

    October 25, 2021 at 7:16 am

    I thought peanut butter was a no-no, and we should use sunflower seed butter instead?

    Reply
    • Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

      October 25, 2021 at 8:53 am

      Hi Diane,
      One of the reasons I use PB in my recipes is to show that you can still have some. Think portion not perfection. Make sure you get your oxalate food list, but even more importantly read what I have to say about oxalate and how many foods you can still eat! It is when we stick the spoon in the PB jar over and over AND not get enough daily calcium. Watch this from my YouTube channel
      :https://youtu.be/lV-eUPOwH1M

      Reply
  3. Susan

    December 27, 2021 at 12:45 am

    How many balls should the recipe make? I love the specific nutritional info per ball including oxalates, but “bite size” is a bit relative.

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

      January 7, 2022 at 5:56 pm

      Hi Susan,
      I typically use one inch ball cutter. Next time I will count them.
      j

      Reply
  4. Nunyabuisness

    July 13, 2022 at 7:56 pm

    This recipe is garbage for kidney stone formers. Why is this even allowed to be published on this website?

    1. Any resource will show that peanut butter is a no go for stone formers and is one of the top 10 worse foods to eat.

    2. Its well established in many medical documents that kidney stone formers should stay below 50mg/oxalate per day

    Reply
    • Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

      July 24, 2022 at 2:01 pm

      Hi Nunyabusiness,
      Not sure of your sources that say to limit oxalate to 50 mg. For patients that have malabsorption issues, this is true, but no need to do that if you don’t. You would be limiting too many healthy foods. For the past 23 years my patients have kept peanut butter in their diet. I see their follow-up urine collections, and their oxalate is low. One can no longer grab a spoon and eat a jar of PB and must also get calcium needs met. Totally doable, and no need to delete it from the diet. Unless it is a trigger, food and portion cannot be controlled.
      j

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    • Reen

      August 1, 2022 at 1:19 pm

      I agree. Peanut butter, stevia and chocolate are all bad for kidney stone forming people. I am a kidney stone sufferer. These are 3 top offenders that I will not eat.

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      • Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

        August 7, 2022 at 1:36 pm

        Hi Reen,
        If you look at the Harvard list stevia the plant is high in oxalate. Once processed in the packets we know there is zero oxalates. Also, peanut butter has 26 mg for 2 Tablespoons. You can easily make a sandwich out of that. Chocolate too. Make sure you know there are plenty of foods to eat if you eat within portions and get your calcium needs met every day. I say this with certainty because I look at hundreds of follow-up urine collections each year, and while people follow my advice and they keep their oxalate low on their urine collection results. My YouTube channel discusses this in detail. Go take a lookhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGU1UtFveq57MyN-Uqhz1A

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        • kaitlyn karol

          November 20, 2022 at 12:42 am

          I find this info helpful but also, why not share other ‘alternatives’ for some of these foods? Stevia is a sugar alternative and that is one good thing BUT why not also offer folks the option to use CAROB POWDER instead of chocolate?

          It tastes just like choc! My friends think my brownies are made w/ choc and they are not and no one usu can tell the diff! Carob is so yummy! I NEVER NEVER EVER hear anyone offering this alternative to choc…..it drives me mad how much ppl don’t know and don’t bother to research.

          I knew about stevia way back over 20 yrs ago and told ppl about it and they all thought I was nuts and now today, that it has become so mainstreamed, everyone now acts like an expert about it!

          Also, you can use the alternative of macadamia or pecan butter! Why not share that info? I have other food intolerances as well so I can’t do peanut butter or chocolate or 12 other foods on top of being oxalate-sensitive due to being a kidney stone producer so I am very resourceful and go online to stores that sell pecan butter. It’s the closest thing to peanut butter as far as taste and it’s healthier than peanut butter!

          Let’s level up above our oxalate levels and even do better than just lowering them! Yes, we can do little bits of it here and there but isn’t it even better to offer healthier alternatives to avoid oxalates altogether when we have a choice to do so?

          This makes sense – esp if the alternative is healthier. For example, carob is MUCH healthier than choc; it has minerals and vitamins and has no caffeine like choc. I have to also watch caffeine due to my IC b/c I have a cranky bladder that can’t tolerate caffeine.

          Let’s be expansive in our diets – I agree. But when we can replace oxalates or lower them much lower, why not do that and be even healthier?

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          • Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

            November 20, 2022 at 1:36 pm

            Hi Kaitlyn,
            Couldn’t agree more with you! People should expand their diets more and I have spent the last 24 years trying to do just that.
            Thanks for writing!
            j

  5. Irma

    November 13, 2022 at 6:16 pm

    Interesting information! I’m following your info because I was recently and surprisingly diagnosed with osteoporosis, high risk, and I now have to adjust my diet to ensure I get my calcium intake, so all this info on oxalates and phytate as well is overwhelming. I also have microscopic colitis and so need to be even more careful.
    My question is if I beat the PB ball, will the oxalate and calcium in the ball neutralize each other or will I still get some calcium?
    Thx!
    Will continue to follow with great interest. 🙂

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    • Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

      November 20, 2022 at 1:37 pm

      Hi Irma,
      I am not understanding the question. Can you explain?

      Reply
  6. Rob

    December 2, 2022 at 12:24 pm

    I see that Lily’s stevia chocolate chips contain chicory root fiber. I’ve read that chicory leaf is very high in oxalate but can’t find any information as to whether the root fiber is also high. Can you help?

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    • Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

      December 3, 2022 at 2:57 pm

      Hi Rob,
      Because these are chocolate they should be limited. When we eat food in normal portions and get our calcium needs each day, I don’t worry so much about oxalate. Except for spinach and almond products of course.
      j

      Reply

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