Jose Andres Puerta Quotes

I am very concerned about junk food in the schools.

I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes.

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

Junk food was never allowed at home, and personally too, there is no love for aerated drinks.

I don't encourage kids to eat sugar, but I do it.

When we get in late and the only thing open is fast food, it can be tough to maintain a healthy diet.

As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.

I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.

I'm a healthy eater, but I don't consider Chick-fil-A fast food.

Many people think children must have chips. I don't think any household should have a deep fat fryer.

Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.

We eat all organic at home, so if we're running around and the kids want a hot dog or pretzel, I'll get it for them.

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.

I eat junk food, cheesecake, cheese, pizza - but just lower amounts of it.

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

I can live without fast food.

I'm not the healthiest eater, but I try to watch what I eat during the week. I kind of splurge on the weekends and eat french fries and pizza.

Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.

Junk food's not going anywhere. The specifics of what's being snacked on, and what's considered 'junk' and what's 'healthy' will change, of course, depending on what's available.

I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!

It's an uphill battle to help our kids learn to make good food decisions - particularly when they are too often presented with an a la carte lunch room choice of french fries or yogurt.