What to put on your breakfast cereal

[MooseMom]

I like a bowl of cereal in the mornings.  Yes, I keep it to corn or rice based cereals, and I usually top it with berries in keeping with the dreaded pre-dialysis diet.  I DO use regular milk, though, but not much at all, and I always have milk left over in the bottom of the bowl.  I've never liked a lot of milk in my cereal, so keeping my milk portion low isn't a problem.  Still, I'd like to know if any of you use any sort of faux milk, and if so, what?  I've tried only soy milk, and I didn't like it because it was awfully sweet.  Milk was always my beverage of choice; I could down a pint easily with a curry.  Needless to say, I don't do that any more, and a bit on my cereal is the only milk I have in a day, but I'd happily try something else that might be a better choice.  Thanks.

[Bruno]

Gee MM you do get around...love your posts. My problem is low  potassium so I have a banana on toast plus a glass of orange juice with a teaspoon of black strap molasses. For morning tea I take dried apricots and some natural almonds. I'm getting jack of it, though.

[Jean]

MM. I think we have discussed this before and for us, there is not a whole lot of difference in the milk as far as our phos, etc. Personally, I would like to have a cheeseburger for breakfast, but I guess that is out. I do make " Breakfast Jacks" for my hubby, and occasionally I have one also. I make about a dozen at a time, and freeze them, then when he wants to eat, he just unwraps the foil, covers it with a paper towel and bingo, breakfast is served!!!

[lorna]

I am the same way with my cereal but do sometimes use rice milk that the diatician recomended. Its pretty thin though, i dont think i would drink it but for cereal its ok.

[Rerun]

Rice Milk "Original Classic"  (Not the Enriched) is good cold..... very cold, and is on our food list.   Actually, Soy milk has potassium and phos in it, so it is not on our list.  Although, "soy dream ice cream" is okay for us.

cereal, rice milk, blueberries.   Yummmmm

[thegrammalady]

i used to use non dairy creamer. the kink you would put in your coffee. but now that i'm on nocturnal my phos runs so low i use regular milk.

[MooseMom]

Oh, gosh I apologize for asking a redundant question.  I figured this had been discussed before, but I'm frankly too lazy to go searching about for a similar thread; thanks for indulging me!

Bruno, my favorite cereal topping always was dried apricots, but those are awfully high in phos, so I generally avoid that.  I love dried fruit, but that's a no-no on my diet (I'm pre-D and don't take binders...YET).  Occasionally, though, I will take a dried apricot and chop it up into little pieces to make it go further, and I'll supplement that with some fresh berries for my cereal.

I'll try the rice milk, but it's true that I probably don't use enough regular milk for it to make much of a difference.  I just wanted a bit of variety.  So, thanks for the replies!

[Restorer]

I've been eating cereal with a small amount of regular milk. I've tried rice milk, but it doesn't work with a lot of cereals because it's lacking salt, or fat, or something. (Have I mentioned I hate skim milk on cereal? Same idea.) I don't like the flavor of soy milk, and it still has half the phosphorus of real milk, putting it in the "medium" category.

Has anyone found truly low-phosphorus non-dairy creamer that isn't too sweet? Everything I've found has disodium phosphate in it, and it ends up being the same amount of phosphorus as soy milk.

I'd drink more rice milk if it weren't so expensive. Trader Joe's has its own brand of rice milk, but it's all enriched, so I have to buy the name brand at a regular grocery store.

[cariad]

You can get soy milk unsweetened. I know that does not help if it is actually not on the renal diet or you don't like it, but it is certainly out there.

I detest cows milk. I don't eat cereals often, but when I do, it's soy milk for me. Some studies say soy is excellent for ESRD patients, slows kidney decline or something. When I told the nutritionists that I love soy, they all seemed to welcome this news, so maybe.....

[boswife]

Hey Restorer, i looked up how to make my own rice milk.  Well, dont know what i did wrong but i made a mess of things but i'll bet you could do it real good and then write it up for us here once figured out.. What ya think??  For me, i think i put a few 'directions' together and just messed it up..got descouraged 

[MooseMom]

You can get soy milk unsweetened. I know that does not help if it is actually not on the renal diet or you don't like it, but it is certainly out there.

I detest cows milk. I don't eat cereals often, but when I do, it's soy milk for me. Some studies say soy is excellent for ESRD patients, slows kidney decline or something. When I told the nutritionists that I love soy, they all seemed to welcome this news, so maybe.....

The first time I saw the renal dietician, she recommended soy milk, so I did try it.  I was surprised to see how sweet it was; I don't really have much of a sweet tooth at all, so I was not really happy with it.  But I will look for unsweetened soy milk; I didn't even know it existed, so thanks for that info!

[Zach]

I use Designer Whey "natural" flavor.
I mix it the night before so it has time to get real cold.

http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/store/en/browse/sku_detail.jsp?id=XN-1006

It has 150 mg of phosphorus in a serving (2 renvela tablets), but also 19 grams of protein.
Most cold cereals have just 2 grams or protein, such as Corn Flakes.
Special K is one which has 6 grams of protein.

I like blueberries or sliced strawberries on top.
On rare occasions I'll top the cereal with a few very thin slices of banana.

 

[ChickenLittle56]

Years ago U used to drink DairyDelicious low phosphorous milk and it was expensive but I enjoyed the taste. Its to bad the company went out business but I think there is another company out of Japan called  Ikaruga Milk Company that makes it. I looked at the website and didn't find any information on where its sold and how much.