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Brenda is an author, speaker,
educator and consultant

Brenda is a registered dietitian and the president of ScaleDown Publishing, Inc.. She is also the author of two award-winning cookbooks, as well as camera ready masters including Spanish and English menus, recipes and educational materials.

Recognition Brenda has received include the American Dietetic Association’s Mary Abbott Hess Award and the Award of Merit from the Oregon Dietetic Association. Her cookbooks have received much praise including the Benjamin Franklin "Book of the Year" Award and the Benjamin Franklin silver medal for Best Cookbook.

Brenda has extensive experience in nutrition and diabetes counseling and she is an active member of the American Dietetic Association and the American Diabetes Association.

As a medical professional and teacher, Brenda has specialized in helping people develop healthful, lifelong eating habits.

 

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If you love great tasting food and want it to be quick, easy and healthy, then Quick and Healthy cookbooks should be in your kitchen. Author Brenda is an experienced cook, mom and registered dietitian who has helped patients prepare delicious and healthy quick meals for many years. The healthy cooking recipes in her books will not only help busy families who want to eat healthier, but they are also perfect for diabetes, heart disease and weight loss. These low-fat cookbooks include:
• over 100 easy chicken recipes
• lean pork tenderloin and lean beef recipes
• great seafood recipes
• casseroles, including breakfast casseroles
• healthy beverage, snack, soup, salad and dessert recipes
• menus that cover weeks worth of meals
• grocery shopping lists
• nutritional analysis for each recipe including food exchanges and grams of carbohydrate - making it easy to plan diabetic menus
The grocery list make shopping easy— print from the website under grocery lists to print. Now your worries for cooking healthy quick meals for the family are over! Start with one of our most popular recipes, easy lemon garlic chicken.