Cooking Classes
Proper dietary management can help slow the progression of kidney disease, reduce symptoms, or even prevent complications. Kidney-friendly cooking may seem complicated, but it can be easy, budget-friendly, creative, and most of all tasty.
Cooking for Kidney Health
The Kidney Wellness Hub offers a number of live, online cooking classes and demos throughout the year. These are a great opportunity to hear from renal dietitians on how to eat well at any stage of kidney disease. You can also cook along and learn easy food swaps, cook along and discover new kidney-friendly recipes, and have your questions answered. A number of these classes are recorded and can be found on the Kidney Wellness Hub Youtube channel.
Come Cook With Us Full Episodes
Delicious Comfort Foods
This class features cauliflower alfredo, winter pear salad, and a tasty berry crisp for a kidney-friendly three-course meal.
Shopping list and recipes
The creamy cauliflower alfredo base can be customized to your taste. Paired with a hearty winter salad and berry crisp you can enjoy this dinner anytime.
Join Dani as she sits down with special guest Tamara to talk about her passion for cooking, and how it has helped her thrive while living with reduced kidney function for the past 10 years.
Nutritious Comfort Foods and Holiday Treats
Nutritious Comfort Foods
These festive dishes offer a perfect balance of indulgence and nourishment, catering to diverse tastes while adding rich flavors and wholesome ingredients to holiday celebrations.
Recipes
This batch of delicious recipes are sure to impress at your next holiday get together, bringing festive flavors and a perfect balance of indulgence and nourishment. Find them all here!
Shopping List
Enjoy your trip to the grocery store as you gather ingredients for your next feast, or get creative and customize the recipes to suit your taste!
Easy Meals
Easy Meals
This class makes cooking easier with kitchen tools! Enjoy a salmon and rice dinner, chicken and beef meatloaf, and salmon sandwiches with kidney-friendly chips and ginger sesame coleslaw.
Shopping list and recipes
Use these recipes and shopping list to collect everything you need for a hassle-free meal on a low-energy day.
Join Anja and she sits down with special guest Marissa to discuss her kidney journey, the joy behind being creative and how her deep connection to family and culture keep her going.
Summer Bites
Smart Food Swaps
Lunar New Year
Sheet-Pan Batch Cooking
Cooking Class Instructors
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Dani Renouf, RD, MSc, CDE, is a registered dietitian with over 20 years of experience working with patients and clients in chronic disease prevention and management. This includes positions within the hospital sector, private industry, community and public health, and research settings. Currently, Dani works as the provincial dietitian lead for BC Renal and is the Renal Resource Dietitian at St. Paul’s Hospital and Chair of BC Renal’s Dietitian Committee. She also runs her own private practice, 4 Elements Nutrition Consulting.
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Anja Webster, RD CDE is a clinical dietitian working at the St. Paul’s Hospital post-kidney transplant clinic. She has experience working in multiple renal modalities including CKD, PD and HD. Through her experience in the renal department, she has offered a number of cooking classes specifically geared to patients with kidney disease. She loves listening to stories about food and finding ways to make all foods fit into individual diets. When not at work, Anja can be found hiking around the north shore or at a nearby park playing with her kids.
The Kidney Wellness Hub is thrilled so to have Dani and Anja lead our Come Cook with Us online cooking series.