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FREE GUIDES & RECIPES

Patient-created cookbooks, support materials, and safety guides with explicit review status.

These materials are educational and editorial works, not diagnosis, treatment, medication instructions, or individualized nutrition advice. CKD and dialysis needs vary with labs, modality, medications, other conditions, and the care plan; use a nephrologist and renal dietitian for personal decisions.
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These NSP guide pages remain as reference and archive material. For live food screening, presets, daily limits, and cookbook XREF, use RenalShield.
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Partners · FREE
The Dialysis Partner's Guide
For the people who support someone on dialysis.
A planned caregiver guide covering practical support, boundaries, burnout, and hard conversations. The current PDF is a placeholder; clinical and caregiver review are required before publication.
Treatment complete · manuscript in production
In Production
Recipes · FREE
CKD Hot Sauces
Flavor-forward sauce experiments with a renal-aware lens.
A patient-created hot-sauce draft. Nutrition values are working estimates, not individualized targets; ingredient-label, renal-dietitian, food-safety, and process review are required.
Private source draft · review required
In Review
Safety · FREE
Cannabis Kitchen & Craft Safety Guide
Adult storage, labeling, and harm-reduction boundaries.
An Oregon-focused safety guide for retail-product checks, locked storage, incident response, and non-infused crafts. It intentionally provides no manufacturing, extraction, potency, or dosing instructions.
Private source draft · law refresh required
In Review
Private
Lauren's Cookbook
A private family cookbook built around favorite foods.
The working source contains personal health and medication material. It remains private and must be redacted, consent-reviewed, and separated from medical guidance before any public edition exists.
Private review only · not published
Private Review
Personal · FREE
Andrew's ESRD Cookbook
A patient-created cookbook written from lived experience.
A personal recipe collection and planning aid, not a universal renal diet or medication instruction. Nutrition estimates and clinical language require renal-dietitian review before public promotion.
Private source draft · clinical review required
In Review
Recipes · FREE
The CKD World Cookbook
International comfort-food experiments for individualized review.
A patient-created international recipe draft. Values vary by products, portions, labs, dialysis modality, and care plan; no recipe is represented as universally CKD-safe.
27-recipe draft · clinical review required
In Review
Education · FREE
ESRD Survival Kit
A planned orientation guide for life around dialysis.
A developmental education outline for appointments, questions, support systems, and daily logistics. No source manuscript or clinician-approved treatment guidance is currently published.
Development treatment · manuscript required
In Production
Education · FREE
CKD Kitchen Cookbook
A planned cookbook built from the reviewed recipe inventory.
A developmental ten-part cookbook treatment. Recipes, nutrition estimates, food-safety instructions, and CKD framing require source reconciliation and renal-dietitian review before release.
Development treatment · manuscript required
In Production
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