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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Diet and Recipes => Topic started by: Rerun on January 27, 2007, 06:11:55 PM

Title: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: Rerun on January 27, 2007, 06:11:55 PM
The clinic handed out some "Patient Education" materials today.  Here is some of their ideas for snacks!   >:(

Animal Crackers (I wonder if they mean the frosted kind)   ;D
Grahams (no chocolate)
Angel Food Cake (Puke)
Cupcake (no chocolate)
Matzoh (What ever the hell that is)
Gum Drops (Please!)
Lollipops and hard candy
Low Sodium crackers
Unsalted soda crackers, popcorn, or rice cakes
Unsalted popcorn, pretzels, tortilla chips

Here is my idea for a snack:   >:D
Twinkies
Glazed Donut Holes
Frosted Animal Cookies
Berrie Fruit Pie
Sugar Cookies (last resort)

What are some of your snacks?

Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: glitter on January 27, 2007, 07:22:23 PM
my husband gets honey buns
                        snickerdoodles
                        oatmeal cookies
                        gumdrops
                        jelly beans
                        candy corn
                        white and yellow,and strawberry cakes and muffins with frosting
                        blueberry muffins and blackberry
                       apple pie
                       apple cobbler  etc.
we do not seem to have a problem finding sweets
-he eats alot of unsalted pretzels,and those little things of peaches,
two tangerines a week,and a tiny bit of raw broccoli or cauliflower.

Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: Rerun on January 27, 2007, 07:24:21 PM
Hey, those look good.  Thanks.  I love candy corn.  I forgot about them.   ;D
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: jollor on January 27, 2007, 07:27:47 PM
Rice Crispie treats
Crackers
Gummi Lifesavers
Caramel rice cakes
Apple Pie
Cheesecake
Tiramasu
Cake
Reese's
Oatmeal Cookies
Wafer rolls
Pocky
Glazed Donuts

I love having a delicious sweet treat on occasion.

Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: kitkatz on January 27, 2007, 09:34:17 PM
What in the world is Pocky?
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: kelliOR on January 27, 2007, 09:41:06 PM
Everytime I was on dialysis I had the exact same snack........  Swedish Fish and a Payday!
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: Zach on January 27, 2007, 09:42:50 PM
Everytime I was on dialysis I had the exact same snack........  Swedish Fish and a Payday!

I love Swedish Fish ...  but they eventually pulled out a filling, so the price wasn't worth it.    :'(
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: kelliOR on January 27, 2007, 09:54:01 PM
Yeah, I had to stop eating them too,  but they are gooooood!
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: BigSky on January 28, 2007, 12:28:36 PM
Nilla wafers
Fig Newtons
MetRx bar
graham crackers
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: shay_pcb on January 28, 2007, 04:56:55 PM
Y'all go for sweet snacks; I go for salty! Chips are my fav, then popcorn and stuff like that. I'm addicted to salt! LOL
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: meadowlandsnj on January 28, 2007, 06:12:42 PM


What are some of your snacks?



I like Jelly Belly jelly beans, I get a whole bag of different flavors.
shortbread cookies
Baked Ritz flavored chips sometimes
Teddy Grahams cookies
Nilla vanilla cookies
crumb cake
Junior Mints (love these things frozen)

Donna
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: glitter on January 28, 2007, 06:51:55 PM
Y'all go for sweet snacks; I go for salty! Chips are my fav, then popcorn and stuff like that. I'm addicted to salt! LOL

can't have all the salt :(  or the potatoes   :(
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: tubes on January 28, 2007, 07:06:31 PM
uh oh, snacks.  If my dietician reads this I'm dead.  >:D  :lol;

cheetos, funyons, cinnamon graham crackers, saltines w/ pb&j, animal crackers (sadly w/out frosting) goldfish crackers, chocolate teddy grahams, nilla wafers....oh who am i kidding, the whole chip and cookie isle. :o >:D

except i did cut out potato chips.....
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: kitkatz on January 28, 2007, 07:34:22 PM
I gave up my favorite chips- Doritos- becasue last time I ate them I threw them back up. Yuck!  Have not touched them since.  Lays potato chips did the same thing to me.  I do not touch them anymore.  It is hard for me to touch potato chips anymore because I threw them up a couple of times. I HATE to throw up!  So the chip aisle is pretty much off my list.  Now cookies are another story. I can eat cookies and crackers until the cows come home.

Questions: Are Rye Krisp crackers high in potassium or phosphorous?  I love the way they taste!

Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: jbeany on January 28, 2007, 09:18:28 PM
Ouch - this is per cracker according to Nutrition Data website

Phosphorus     67.2     mg     
Potassium    79.8    mg    
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: Rerun on January 28, 2007, 09:31:49 PM
Rule of thumb.  If it is good, then it is high in Phosphorous and Potassium.

Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: renal30yrs on January 29, 2007, 12:32:06 AM
Says no food and smoking in my unit.  Its probably better that way.  More food in your GI most likely bring down your pressure or can even make you nauseous.
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: angela515 on January 29, 2007, 10:16:53 AM
WHen I was on dialysis I used to snack on Saltine Crackers (but the low-salt or non-salted topps), idunno why but I just couldnt stop eating those things,  :lol;
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: Bette on January 29, 2007, 03:57:11 PM
I am addicted to bagels and cream cheese.   :2thumbsup;  I love chips and salsa, hell, salsa on anything.  It's been really hard for me to give up the salty stuff too.  The extra fluid is starting to really bother me so I am getting a lot better.
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: Panda_9 on February 19, 2007, 03:16:32 AM
I just had buttered toast with cinnamon sugar. Other things I like are

cereal
biscuits with a cup of coffee
crackers with cheese and tomato mustard pickles
iced coffee
vegemite toast or crackers
grapes
yoghurt with a handful of pecan nuts
chocolate snack pack
shapes with dip
sourdough cheese twists

Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: lamillinger913 on February 23, 2007, 04:32:55 PM
I am addicted to the low-sodium saltines, too, angela515. I swear I would starve without them. Pathetic, I know. Bread sticks ... those really thin crisp ones flavored with rosemary or garlic ... sugar cookies ... Milanos ... rice krispie treats ... Cocoa Puffs ... Kix ... unsalted pretzels. Buttered toast ... that very thin Pepperidge Farm bread toasted w/ real unsalted butter.

Mmmm ... cinnamon toast ... thanks, panda for makin' me hungry now.
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: kitkatz on February 24, 2007, 09:15:07 AM
Honeycomb cereal goes in a baggie to dialysis with me as a snack.
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: jbeany on February 24, 2007, 08:59:36 PM
My dialysis snack is Bear Naked granola and dried cherries.  I don't have potassium problems, so dried fruit is still one of my favorite munchies.
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: BigSky on February 25, 2007, 03:06:15 PM
Honeycomb cereal goes in a baggie to dialysis with me as a snack.

 ;D

On my recent trip for Tx workup I had little baggies of honeynut cheerios.  My family just gave me strange looks for carrying it.
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: tubes on June 01, 2007, 04:11:42 PM
my recent snack of choice is froot loops-dry and life cereal-dry.  i'll take it in a baggy to dialysis and leave it in my car for a after treatment snack. and it helps me stay awake on the drive home.  :popcorn;
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: twirl on March 21, 2008, 02:16:26 PM
:bunny: Davita's snakes seem to be hard and tasteless
I like a glass of unsweet tea with lemon ----- Until I watched the video on lemons in a restaurant now forget the lemon
I like little bowls of hot and sour soup
the yogurt treat thing at McD's







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Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: twirl on March 21, 2008, 02:20:30 PM
:shy;  :oops;  Davita snacks not snakes

in Durango they serve you snacks --- grape juice, cranberry juice, apple juice
graham crackers, unsalted saltines and some kind of fish shaped crackers, hard no sugar candies and a ton of ice, tea, coffee and water
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: thegrammalady on March 21, 2008, 03:34:40 PM
twirl, maybe they really are snakes. i take a protine bar and some fruit to every treatment. but then i don't call it a snack, i call it breakfast.
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: mikey07840 on May 14, 2008, 06:45:06 PM
Unfortunately, in NJ no food is allowed in the treatment area of any dialysis unit. This is NJ Department of Health regulation, not the dialysis center's rule.  :'(
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: flip on May 14, 2008, 06:50:05 PM
I usually take a sandwich, some sort of fruit pie, and a Sprite. I consider it lunch since my session starts at 11:30.
Title: Re: DaVita's Idea of a "Snack"
Post by: kidney4traci on May 14, 2008, 07:49:57 PM
Pretzel rods dipped in cottage cheese.  I use the rod as a "spoon" and eat the small mini pack of cottage cheese.  The salt doesn't bother me and I can do small amounts of cheese.