What do you crave...?

[charee]

I pretty much eat anything and find moderation is the key, a little of this and a little of that with my phoslo. Lab tests have been good.

i can eat what i like too i have been off caltrate from the 3rd week of dialysis my potassium and phos are sometimes below the normal limit but then i do 7 hours every second day

[KR Cincy]

I crave a kidney
Some needle-free time spent with
All my blood in me

well said...

[angellady07]

A chocolate covered banana with nuts. Well I'm not supposed to have bananas or nuts, oh well I can dream.

[Romona]

I am kind of opposite from some of you. My phosphorus is low and I have to watch calcium.

[willieandwinnie]

I'm the caregiver, but in stressing times (which I seem to be having a lot of lately) I want mashed potatoes (comfort food).

[jbeany]

Free time!  All mine is being sucked away this month.  Right now though, I mostly seem to be craving fudge.  I made half a dozen pans at Christmas, and managed to get it all out of the house except for one lone piece.  Apparently, that wasn't enough.  I want more!!!!  I still have all the ingredients, but I'm going to have to pass on most of it to a friend, or I'll eat the whole 2 pound batch myself. 

[KT0930]

Lately I've been craving sweets. I NEVER crave sweets - EVER!!
I don't know if it's because I've been using Extaneal, which doesn't have the dextrose in it and maybe my body is so used to having all the sweetness in my blood and saliva that I notice when it's not there? (By the way, the extraneal doesn't seem to work for me - in fact I think I may have an allergy to it as I wheeze by the time bed rolls around).
Anyway, I've been buying marshmallow peanuts, jujubes, sponge toffee, and licorice. Not bad, except it's all just crap!!

Since I got my transplant and have not had the PD fluid in me all day, I'm finding this to be the case, as well. Lots of people are bringing us dinners, and most bring dessert with it, so we've had cookies, brownies, pies, and other sweets around. Apparently the PD fluid had more calories than I thought, though, because I'm still managing to lose a little weight!

[mikey07840]

A peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat with a nice tall glass of milk. 16 ounces of milky goodness.

oh well....


Mike 

[jwlikins]

Definitely GOOD Pizza, not Domino's or Pizza Hut, I mean Chicago or New York Style.  I grew up in a small town outside of Pittsburgh, Pa, plenty of Italians and plenty of greeaatt Pizza.  Also good Mexican food.

[cherpep]

Banana-split Blizzard at Dairy Queen!

[twirl]

I miss water, water, and more water

[kidney4traci]

I miss a life where I didn't have to think about dialysis...

[twirl]

I miss a life where I didn't have to think about dialysis...

you win the best answer award..........

[mikey07840]

8 hours of uninterrupted sleep without sleeping pills and a real shower. (I still have a perma-cath.)

Mike

[kidney4traci]

Oh yea, I remember those days.  My first real shower after it was removed I almost cried!  I mean it!!!

[cherpep]

Me too.  Putting my entire body underneath the shower was the most wonderful feeling after my cath was removed. 

[okarol]

I remember that Jenna always wanted more and more sleep... but it was never enough.

[Wallyz]

I crave water, and that feeling when you work out and you can feel yourself getting stronger. I work out, but I can't gain any strength or much conditioning.  I just maintain.

[Jess21]

I CRAVE French Onion Soup!!!  Especially now that it is cold out!  That is what I'm getting the second I get a transplant! Warm or cold outside, I DON"T CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Oh, the sodium!
Last year it was Hot chocolate.  But I've had that this year already!

[twirl]

coke
pepsi

[monrein]

Beans, sushi, whole grain breads, fresh bruschetta, raw almonds, artichokes, mangoes, greek yogurt, fresh squeezed OJ, and everything else healthy that I love but can't have just now. 

[502Blues]

Pizza, and Potatoes-mashed,fried,baked,scalloped, any form

[lruffner]

I am not on dialysis yet, but I have already been cut off of the phos./ potassium foods, so I want a HUGE hot fudge sundae, with a ton of real whipped cream. I also greatly missed eating melons this past summer.

[twirl]

I am not on dialysis yet, but I have already been cut off of the phos./ potassium foods, so I want a HUGE hot fudge sundae, with a ton of real whipped cream. I also greatly missed eating melons this past summer.

I just will not give up melons - watermelon is so good and I can get it year round now -- I eat less but I can not give it up -
I will go to a buffet because the watermelon is good there and I will leave it watermelon is not on the menu for that day

[lruffner]

Unfortunately Twirl, I cannot eat things that I dearly love in moderation, especially any type of melon. It is easier for me to just not eat it at all...kind of "out of sight, out of mind."  I must admit that I over endulged in tomatoes this year. I didn't know about the tomatoes being bad, until half the summer was over...oops! Luckily, my labs showed no ill effects from it, but I am much more cautious now.