Kidney Food Plan

You have been told what to avoid. This tells you what to eat: the swaps, the medicine interactions, the safety checks and 112 recipes, built around your own restrictions.

You have been told what to avoid. This tells you what to eat.

Kidney Food Plan takes the restrictions your kidney team has actually given you and builds a personal eating plan around them: what to go easy on, what to choose instead, the foods that interact with your medicines, and recipes that fit.

There is nothing to log. No food diary, no weighing, no counting. You answer a few questions once, and the plan is yours.

WHAT IT COVERS

Your treatment. Chronic kidney disease, haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis or a transplant. Each one changes the advice, and sometimes reverses it. On dialysis the protein target goes up rather than down, and the app tells you so plainly.

Your restrictions. Potassium, phosphate, urate and gout, uric acid stones, oxalate stones, diabetes, and lower or higher protein.

Your medicines. Warfarin, tacrolimus and ciclosporin, statins, levothyroxine, iron tablets, and the blood pressure medicines that raise potassium. It flags the foods that genuinely matter for each, including grapefruit and the salt substitutes that push potassium up without warning.

How you eat. Pescatarian, vegetarian and vegan. Halal and kosher. Coeliac disease, lactose intolerance, nut allergy, IBS and low FODMAP, and modified texture for swallowing difficulty.

WHERE IT EARNS ITS PLACE

Restrictions contradict one another, and nobody usually says so out loud. Stone prevention asks you to drink more, while dialysis asks you to drink considerably less. Oxalate advice wants calcium at every meal, while phosphate advice limits dairy. Gluten free bread is frequently raised with phosphate additives, which is the last thing a phosphate restriction needs.

The app looks for those collisions in your own particular combination, explains which one takes priority and why, and tells you when to take the question back to your team.

THE RECIPES

112 recipes, ordered so that the ones needing no changes at all come first. Where a dish needs a tweak for one of your restrictions, the tweak is written on the recipe itself, naming the actual substitution rather than vaguely suggesting you find a version that fits.

FREE, AND STAYING FREE

The plan, every food swap, all the medicine interactions, the safety notes and all 112 recipes are free. No account, no subscription, no advertising.

Premium is a single payment, once, and adds:

Save favourites with your own notes on each one Shopping lists grouped by aisle, with repeats merged A weekly meal planner that builds the week's shopping in one tap A label checker for phosphate additives, potassium chloride and hidden salt An eating out guide for Indian, Chinese, Italian, pub and cafe menus A clean PDF to take to your next clinic or dietitian appointment

PRIVACY

There is no account and no server. Everything you enter stays on your own device, and none of it ever reaches us. No analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifiers.

WHO WROTE IT

The clinical content is written by Dr Christopher Lawrence, Consultant Nephrologist, of Herts Kidney Care. Published by Patient Thread Ltd.

IMPORTANT

This app gives general information about food for adults living with chronic kidney disease. It does not diagnose, monitor or treat any condition, it does not replace advice from your own kidney team, GP or dietitian, and it is not a medical device.

Only follow a restriction that your clinical team has actually asked you to follow. Blood tests decide these things, not an app. If you feel unwell, or you are losing weight without trying, contact your kidney team rather than following anything here.