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Louise,

Sounds like you are having a major tough time....

A good way of consuming fruit is to make it into a smoothie. Works better for

me. I often add a dash of calcium enriched soy milk because it makes the

smoothie even yummier and disguises the taste of the soy milk at the same time.

When I make banana smoothies, I add the soy milk and a scoop of soy vanilla

ice-cream. The taste of the soy vanilla ice-cream is out of this world. Even

friends and family who aren't dairy intolerant have told me they love it. My

sister is the world's fussiest eater I reckon and she tried it and loved it, i

couldn't get her away from it!

The best brand I have found is So Good although I am not sure if you can get

it outside of Australia.

 

I worry so much about not getting enough calcium now I don't drink dairy milk

or yoghurt. The soy milk on it's own does take some getting used to but I have

to say I've been using it for about 2 years now and it makes coffee taste even

better. I prefer the taste of the low fat or fat free version generally but

adding it to cooking or smoothies doesn't matter so much anymore.

 

It's just the cheeses that I am still struggling to really enjoy and the

soygurts!

 

If I think of anything else I will let you know.

Kind regards,

Kath

 

Louise <lmfoster wrote:

I haven't posted for a while, but boy has some stressful stuff being

going down in my life.

 

Okay, as a memory refresher, I am a 30 y.o. female lacto-ovo

vegetarian. I suffer from renal failure, but am not on dialysis yet.

I also have hypertension and osteoporosis.

 

Just lately my renal specialist, during routine blood tests, has

discovered very high phosphate levels and anaemia. My iron levels

are fine though, in fact they are surprisingly high considering I

don't supplement or even bother eating iron rich foods.

 

So, with the aneamia I have to self-inject the hormone erythrepoiton

weekly. Not a problem, just a bit stressful as nobody likes giving

themselves needles.

 

But the phosphate is a bigger problem. Here's what the renal unit

dietitian has told me: cut dairy back to 1 cup (250ml) of milk per

day, and do not eat cereals or wholegrain breads. I have to have

white bread (!!! Which I don't like, and which is unhealthy anyway)

and I'm also not allowed to eat legumes/beans at all. I'm only

allowed 5 eggs a week.

 

I'm finding it particularly difficult to find something I can eat

for breakfast, and also to get enough calcium, when you consider my

osteoporosis. I'm not a fan of fruit (for breakfast or any other

time), and I certainly don't like soy products.

 

I also hate white bread.

 

So aside from fresh vegetables, I just can't think of anything I can

eat, or want to eat! I guess I can have rice and pasta but there's

only so often you want to eat those. I'm not a huge pasta fan.

 

I just can't find the balance in all this (

 

Any breakfast suggestions, and non-dairy, non-soy calcium

suggestions?

 

Louise

South Australia