Meet Linda
Kidney diet & nutrition specialist
"I am a nutritionist (& CKD chef!) who decided to branch out from the traditional office setting to better serve my clients. By practicing online, I can reach more people and be more available without the constraints and high costs associated with office visits. This way, I can focus fully on helping individuals like you navigate your health journey, no matter where you are."
Linda is a Certified Nutritionist and a CKD Chef, dedicated to helping individuals manage their kidney health through personalized nutrition.
Yes, she really is a chef! As a Chef honors graduate of Auguste Escoffier Culinary School, she combines her culinary expertise with her nutritional knowledge to create kidney-friendly meals that are both delicious and safe.
Certified as a Kidney Health Coach, Linda has spent the past decade as a caregiver to her husband, who has stage 3 kidney disease, ensuring his diet supports his health while still being enjoyable.
Linda's work includes having served as a culinary consultant for American Kidney Fund® for four years, with many of her recipes featured on their Kidney Kitchen® website.
She has provided cooking demos, webinars, and educational content for their blog.
She has also taught educational classes locally and online.
Her involvement extends to her online support group, and she also does informational guest spots, and cooking demonstrations for medical professionals who want to recommend her method to their patients.
Linda has also demonstrated her culinary expertise for the National Kidney Foundation® and has been featured in Culinary Entrepreneurs® magazine.
In addition, she works closely with dietitians (upon request) to further their clients' kidney diet success.
Her program has received praise from doctors who have reviewed it, recognizing its effectiveness in helping patients manage their kidney diets.
Clients are also loving the results, finding it easier to navigate their dietary needs and improve their health.
Her Story
When her husband received his diagnosis, she was near graduating from college in business management and prepping a business plan to open a clinic with friends. The demands of trying to figure out how to “save” her husband were immense. She had to (heartbreakingly) go to the group and tell them she was out. She felt she needed to put 100% of her time into solving the CKD puzzle.
They struggled with his diet, and he despised being told he could not have foods he treasured. This sparked a determination in her to figure out how to allow him to have them once again. She truly believed there had to be a way to work with any food. (She was right)
So, within a week of graduating, she turned around and went to culinary school, then followed that with nutrition. The entire time, she was devoted to finding the answers and applying all she was learning to how it fits with CKD.
It took her five years, but thankfully she had been blessed with the ability to focus solely on it and to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right education, opportunities, and the right circumstances to find every vital answer.
In 2020, CKD Culinary Consulting was born and with it, brought forth The How to Eat for CKD Method™ Nutritional Program! The then-budding entrepreneur knew there was a need for a clear, reliable method to free kidney patients from their confusion, show them how to have their favorite foods, more variety, give them a simplified process, and show them how to successfully build their personalized kidney diet and lifestyle.
She didn't want to be constrained by the limitations of traditional office visits—limited daily appointments, restricted availability, and the high costs of maintaining a physical space. So, she took a bold step and moved her practice online, making her services more accessible to those who truly needed help. Rather than working with clients one-on-one, she transformed her CKD nutrition process into a comprehensive online program, allowing her to guide more people at once. Due to popular demand, she also published the program in book form, offering yet another way to make her expertise available to anyone looking to take control of their kidney health.
Her husband’s lab numbers have remained stable all these years, although, his pants size did go up from all the amazingly tasty foods.
Personally...
Linda enjoys exploring unfamiliar cuisines, adapting them, and finding historical recipes to CKD-ify™ and improve. Her ongoing passion is adapting Caribbean meals.
She lives in Minneapolis with her pet bearded dragons, her chubby cat, Butters Karen (some of you will get that reference), and her husband.
When she isn’t creating recipes, overseeing her program and groups, researching new products, creating or perfecting recipes, keeping up with the latest CKD news, supporting her clients, or working on her cookbooks…
You will find her gathering with family as often as possible, playing a Pathfinder® card game with her husband and/or friends, frequenting Renaissance Fairs, reading about Native American or Viking history, physics, philosophy, historical cooking, binge-watching El Reencuentro Menudo videos online, snuggling her dragons while watching Miranda, Living Single, Jane the Virgin, Golden Girls, & Gilmore Girls reruns, historical dramas, Impractical Jokers, Ghost Adventures, Top Chef, and Guy’s Grocery Games with her husband.
She is also co-owner of a business with her daughter.
A portion of all sales are donated to American Kidney Fund.
Linda also donates to Puerto Rico Rise Up.
She is also a supporter for finding a cure for Lipedema
(Which she and generations of her family suffer(ed) from)
A portion of all sales are donated to American Kidney Fund. Linda also donates to Puerto Rico Rise Up.
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