Renal Diet Podcast 057 – Kidney Friendly Soups and Stews

Kidney Friendly Soups and Stews Podcast #57 Released on January 9, 2018 Welcome to the Renal Diet Headquarters podcast with your host, Mathea Ford, CEO of Renal Diet Headquarters. This is our weekly talk about how you can succeed with a kidney diet. Brought to you by renaldiethq.com, a website whose mission is to be the most valued resource on kidney disease that people can use to improve their health. Oh, my gosh. What is it doing? How do I tell it to stop doing? Hey. Okay, there we go again. Sorry, I was playing with some of the controls before the Go Live. This is Mathea Ford with renaldiethq.com. And I was playing around with some of the different things that Facebook Live does beforehand. And obviously I just turned one on that I didn't mean to and had fire breathing from my mouth. So, it is another day. And today I want to talk about kidney friendly soups and stews because that is a food that's like a comfort food. And honestly, today I'm not feeling very good. I had a migraine a little earlier. I took a little nap, so I feel better. But, there's going to be days when you don't feel good at all. You're tired, you have anemia, you can't get around as much, your bones ache, and just general side effects of kidney disease and honestly, getting older, which I have myself, and I'm 45, so all those things together makes you kind of like some comfort food every now and then. So, if you're not on a fluid restriction, which most of you probably are not, then you can try some of these soups and stews and have a nice comfort food. The other best part of this is you can put some in the crock pot and cook it all day. And then also you can cook a double or a triple batch and really save that for next time. So you can save it in little quart size containers and just have your portions already done and then take it out, put it in the microwave and warm it up. And there you go. You got some quick food for you to eat that's really good because you made it yourself and it's not too salty and all that stuff. So, today I wanted to give you just a couple of kidney friendly soups and a stew that I like. I say a couple really just one of each. So the first one is chicken noodle soup. I have recipes on my blog for chicken noodle soup, and I will put the link in the information below. But the way you just do that is you cook some chicken breast. For you, it's going to depend on if you think about how many portions you're making and how much you're going to get out of it. So, if you're making four portions, for example, and each one is a cup, you're making four cups, then you're going to want to make sure that you're only using about a pound of meat so that you're each going to get 16oz as a pound of meat. Cut that into four sets, 4oz each, and by the time it's cooked, it's three. So, that's going to give you quite a bit of meat in your portion size. So, you may even make that a six portion. So you're not overdoing it on the protein. But basically you cook your chicken, you chop it up and then you put a little bit of unsalted butter in the pan. You do some celery, you do some carrots, you do some onions. Those are all really yummy vegetables. And you can even put a little bit of flour in the pan. After you're done cooking up the onions and carrots and celery to thicken it up a little bit, the flour with the butter makes what's called a roux, and it's a little bit thick. And then you add some most of your chicken broth that you may make yourself, or some of the unsalted chicken stock or broth from the store. And then you can add egg noodles, which are not going to add a lot of protein, but are going to be good, healthy, kind of adding a little bit of bulk to the meal. And you simmer it for five or ten minutes because everything's already cooked pretty much. So, you're simmering it just to soften up those vegetables in maybe 30 minutes. And then you've got some soup. And like I said,