Estelle Quotes

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.

A mother cooking exclusively for her child might be preparing just rice and buttermilk, but it will be immensely tasty. Fast food, on the other hand, may be very tasty, but it has not been prepared exclusively for you, you see.

Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns.

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.

If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend.

It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night.

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

I believe in eating as nutritiously as I can all the time... My mother raised me on fresh - rather than processed - foods, and that's how I eat on a regular basis.

I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.

I don't eat fast food, but I can't live without pizza.

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

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

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

We are not blessed with junk food - my family and my kids do not eat fast foods.

Eat all the junk food you want - as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it'll be less junky, and you won't eat it every day because it's a lot of work.

The traditional fast food model is built on buying the cheapest ingredients - and that usually means poor-quality, heavily processed foods. But you can use quality ingredients, cook food using classic cooking techniques, and still serve something that's fast and inexpensive.

I travel nearly 200 to 300 miles a day for my matches and promotions and end up eating junk food, which is not good for me. Things are better when I am at home; my wife is a very good cook, and she makes rice, dal, and chapatis for me.

I don't have any specialties. Anything I cook, I just make it special.

With more and more fast food available, it takes an extra effort to cook delicious, healthy meals. I have always been a proponent of simple, easy food that doesn't take forever to cook so you really can eat well at home.

You shouldn't be eating anything that takes six minutes to microwave.

I have those days when takeout is the direction we go.

Cooking well, with love, is an art.

It's too expensive to eat healthy. You ever go to Whole Foods? A carrot is, like, seven dollars. McDonald's got double cheeseburgers for a dollar.