Brenda Ruckstuhl, MS, RD, CDCES

This is good news and a great start! I hope this is momentum forward and others follow suit!

Eli Lilly announced today that it will cut the list prices for its most commonly prescribed insulins, including Humalog and Humulin, by 70%! The drug maker will also expand a program that caps out-of-pocket insulin costs for patients at $35 per month. This is a huge win for people living with Diabetes everywhere. Get the full scoop of what this means - https://bit.ly/3KJ612b

🍂Happy Thanksgiving!
Hope your day is filled with all your favorites!
Eat what you want, eat what you love. 🍂

Enjoy your day!

Beauty and roses courtesy of Thankful for a fun day yesterday spent with my daughter clipping a bounty of beautiful roses! Thank you Otto and sons!❤️

Happy Friday! Shout out to Siete Family Foods awesome customer service! I bought a bag of chips that were past their prime. To replace it (and then some) they sent me this fun box of treats! I have been a fan of their chips but did not know about their seasoning mixes. Looking forward to trying them!

For those who need to be gluten free (I do not, just love the flavor), Siete brand is an option for ya!

Hello! I am happy to announce📣 that I am in network for PPO plans with Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield and Health Net. My services are often covered at 100%!

I continue to see Medicare and most Medicare Advantage clients, covered at 100% for Diabetes and Chronic Kidney disease.

Reach out if you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment. Happy to help you verify the benefits on your plan!

Happy Sunday! So glad to be back to 😍
A cause near and dear to my ❤️

Thank you for another super fun event!
Great music and great vibes!

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Roasted carrots with za’atar, cilantro feta and toasted pumpkin seeds. Yum!

Thank you for this easy tasty recipe!

Made this for Easter dinner but this will be in the rotation for weekday meals.

Roasted veggies are a staple in my house but I was tired of the same roasted carrots with the same warm spices (cumin,paprika etc). Needed to change it up!

This simple mix of ingredients makes it feel like springtime with greens and a crunch.
You will love it!
Recipe in my story and highlights

Happy Monday! Last month marked 15 years since I opened my private nutrition practice. 🎉😃
I am beyond grateful to be doing a job that I truly love, assisting individuals in improving their health and relationship with food.

My office provides a peaceful space to connect with clients. I am passionate about helping people become more excited about food while presenting information and options in a practical, flexible way.

One of my favorite things to do is help people with all-or-nothing rules and mindsets. I would be happy to help you discover this for yourself!

2022 brings exciting changes! I am now in-network with Blue Shield and Health Net. I have been a Medicare Provider for years and continue to accept new clients who have Medicare and many Medicare advantage plans. Many insurance companies cover nutrition visits 100% under preventive benefits. Please contact me to discuss if your plan covers my services!

Have a great week!

Beautiful day to pick blueberries!🫐☀️ and

Brought my own containers to recycle but they had plenty of containers if you need them to cart your treasures home!😍

Beautiful day for a walk! Chilly but sunny with some amazing clouds.☁️
Hope you are having a great day!

Gotta love this green cauliflower from for a grain bowl! And my favorite kale almond hummus from

Roasted some cauliflower with olive oil, thinly sliced onion, salt and pepper
Added some cooked farro and cod.
Placed on top of greens with pistachios, avocado and hummus.

No need for a recipe! Just a template of sorts. You can make what you like!
Start with some greens
Add some veggies, toasted, raw, stir fried… or a combo, what ever you like.
Add some protein, fish, chicken, beans, tofu.
And then some goodies, 😋hummus, tzatziki, nuts, seeds, avocado. Use what you have!

Combinations are endless!

Shop local Westlake Village on Sundays
And Thursdays!
Yum!

Curried Carrot Soup, super easy, tasty, nourishing soup for this chilly weather!

Recipe from Phyllis Vaccarelli, who owned Lets get Cookin, a cooking school that used to exist in Westlake Village. Sadly this cooking school no longer exists. Loved that place! Sampled this many years ago in a cooking class, with both cream and no cream. It is so creamy on it’s own with just the veggies! Have never added the cream.

Recipe
2 Tablespoons butter

1/2 cup onion finely chopped

2 celery stalks, finely chopped

1 leek, white part only, finely chopped

2 teaspoons curry powder

8 large carrots, finely chopped

4 cups chicken stock
1/2-1 cup heavy cream (optional)

Salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste
(note: if using a true stock which is unsalted, you will need to add salt. If using a chicken broth, it is unlikely you will need salt or much of it since broth is not unsalted.)
Could easily add some minced fresh ginger when adding the curry powder.
Garnish with chopped chives.

Melt butter in large saucepan or Dutch oven. Add onion, celery and leeks. Stir and let vegetables sweat until softened but not browned, about 5-8 minutes.
Stir in the curry powder until blended.

Add carrots and chicken stock. Bring soup to a boil, then cook partially covered for about 18-20 minutes. Carrots should be soft.

Strain the vegetables (save the stock!!) and then add them with a little stock to a blender. Make sure the veggies have cooled down a bit. Puree the vegetables.
Return pureed mixture to the pot and reheat (with remaining) stock to a boil. You may decide not to add all of the stock back in but you’ll use most of it. Add salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste. Garnish with chives if desired. Can be served hot or cold.

My tip: If you have an immersion blender, you don’t need to strain the vegetables and transfer to a blender. You can just blend in the pot. It will go faster in the blender for sure though! I love to garnish with what I have on hand, cilantro and pistachios (pictured). Cashews would be great too!
Enjoy!

Happy New Year! Hope its off to a good start! Here is a quick, tasty, meal to try in 2022. Shakshuka is great for breakfast, brunch or dinner! Recipe from oldwayspt.org

Love it with with some greens and sourdough toast! Hope you enjoy it too. 😍

Recipe on the blog
www.bruckstuhl.com/blog/2022/1/2/shakshuka

Shakshuka — Brenda Ruckstuhl Nutrition Happy New Year everyone! I hope you enjoyed your holiday season and are looking forward to a great 2022! Here is an easy to make, tasty, recipe to start off this New Year. This simple poached egg dish uses cumin, chili powder, paprika and a bit of cayenne pepper to make a spicy tomato sauce as a b

Best wishes for peace this Holiday season and a Happy, Healthy New Year!
Scenes from a California Winter!❤️

Time to use those turkey leftovers! 😊
Can easily swap the chicken in this recipe for the leftover turkey you have!

Here is a yummy salad you can make from rotisserie chicken.
My family appreciates a salad like this made up so they can make a quick lunch, however they want to build it! Sandwich salad or pita!

Dressing is simple
Mix together in a small bowl the following
1/2 cup of your favorite plain greek yogurt
1/4-1/3 cup of your preferred mayo
1 Tbsp lemon juice
2-3 tsp curry powder
1/2-1 tsp dijon mustard
Pinch of salt and pepper (to taste) If using rotisserie chicken, salt is often not needed!

In a large bowl combine
3 cups cooked chicken (rotisserie makes it so easy!!)
1/2 cup quartered red grapes
3/4-1 cup sliced celery
1/3 cup diced scallions (more for a garnish if desired)
1/2 cup pistachios ( or any nuts you like)
Stir in above dressing to chicken mixture.

Place desired serving of chicken salad on top of a bed of greens with chickpeas.
Enjoy!!

Happy Thanksgiving!🍁
Wishing you a Happy and Delicious Thanksgiving!

🍂May you be at peace and at ease with food, enjoying your favorites without guilt.

Have a Wonderful Day!🍂

Happy Friday! 🥳 Talking a lot with clients lately about making meals and snacks satisfying.

Sometimes the simplest things make a difference. One of my favorite additions to a yogurt bowl is toasted almonds. The flavor and texture to me is so good! You can do this with any nut you like! Toasted nuts can be a wonderful addition to salads too!

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place sliced or slivered almonds on a baking sheet.
Toast in oven for 3 minutes, check on doneness, shake or turn pan and toast for an additional 1-2 minutes. They can go from not done to burnt pretty quickly! Sliced almonds are thinner and take less time.

Many people feel they “should” have plain greek yogurt but don’t really like it. Some people may really like plain yogurt. To me it is too tart. Adding some flavored yogurt to my plain yogurt is the right combination of sweet and tart for me. I love the variety provided by different flavors like lemon, peach, blueberry or coconut. It can be different each time with different fruits and different yogurts!

I’m not too picky about yogurt brands. I love the name of my favorite flavor right now, peach cloudberry 😍

What is satisfying to me is not to others. What portion is right for me, is not for others.
Exploring what you like to eat versus what you “should like to eat” or allow yourself to eat, will likely help you to move on from the meal or snack and tune into your body for information about hunger/fullness/satisfaction.

What are some simple additions to your meals that help you feel satisfied and satiated?

Hope you enjoy your weekend and enjoy your food!😊

Great opportunity, great cause! Feeding seniors and adults with disabilities, nourishing food.🥕🥦🍅

You can be part of something amazing! The Ventura County Area Agency on Aging needs volunteers to help at the Senior Nutrition Garden in Oxnard. The garden depends on the help of volunteers to provide more than 35,000 pounds of fresh produce each year to older adults and people with disabilities throughout .

Visit timecounts.org/vcaaa-volunteers or e-mail [email protected] to get involved.

Scene from this morning!❤️

Your food is part of good health. Joyful movement, self care, being out in nature and social connections are also wonderful parts of good health!

I hope you have a great day!

Anyone else gonna miss peach and nectarine season? If you have any left, simple salad recipe below. 👇

Whether a breakfast bowl in the am, snack in the afternoon or this salad over the weekend, have enjoyed my farmers market bounty. from Westlake farmers market and

So long beautiful stone fruit.

Simple nectarine salad
Mixed Greens 6 cups?
2 nectarines or slightly firm peaches could work too
1/4 cup thinly sliced red onion
2 Tbsp toasted almonds
2 ounces of goat cheese

Easy salad dressing
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp Champagne vinegar
1 Tbsp minced shallots
1 tsp dijon mustard
1 tsp chop fresh thyme
Salt and pepper to taste

Toss the greens with some of the dressing until coated
Add the nectarines, red onion, goat cheese and almonds
Drizzle additional dressing to taste
Although peach and nectarine season is ending, you can use almost any kind of fruit or nuts you want. Apples, asian pear, oranges, pear would all work well.
YUM!

Awwww I love you too kiwi!❤️🥝

This one little fruit has your vitamin C for the day, is a good source of potassium, and even has a little calcium!
One of my favorite parts in a yogurt bowl.

Have a Nice Long Weekend everyone!

When your husband's hobby is pizza making 🙌🍕❤️
Pesto, yellow pepper, broccoli, goat cheese, chicken, pizza.

Simple salad with arugula and greens, tomatoes and pistachios
Dressing
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil
1 Tbsp minced shallots
Salt and pepper to taste

Have a great week everyone!!

Savor the last days of summer with this delicious Grilled Corn and Avocado Salad with Feta Dressing 🌽🥑 from

The dressing is creamy and scrumptious. You will want to make extra for other salads or veggie bowls!
For recipe:link in bio
www.bruckstuhl.com/blog/2021/8/21/corn-salad
Enjoy!

OMG yellow watermelon! I’m in love 😍
Thanks