Paul O'Grady Quotes

All kids are fussy eaters - they go through phases where they'll only eat red food or they just want to eat porridge. With fussy kids, the best thing to do is use what they do like and work around it.

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

I travel around and hear from so many kids. Their parents say they were always very picky but they watch the show and they want to try stuff. The show is entertainment, but I think it has done so much for the public perception of what food can be.

My mom and dad will look at me and my husband, and they're like 'I feel so sorry for this child! He's not eating fish sticks and pizza!' I'm like, 'We try to give it to him, but he doesn't wanna eat it!'

To keep my son healthy, I throw secret veggies into his favorite dishes.

The only vegetable I liked when I was little was broccoli, which I called trees.

Like, I haven't even tried a cherry before, because I'm such a picky eater, and I behave like a 9-year-old.

It takes several doses of any veg before children like it, but once they do they'll like it for life. You wouldn't give up on a child who didn't want to learn to read. Learning to eat is every bit as important.

Never try to get your kid to eat anything she doesn't already want to eat. Just eat interesting stuff in front of her while completely ignoring her. Never, ever suggest "try it." Never say those dreaded words "try it, it's good." Or worse, "It's good for you." That'll poison the well.

A salad is not a meal, it is a style.

Roast something for the children that they might eat.

[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.

This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.

Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts

There's no such thing as junk food. There's junk and there's food.

Fruits and vegetables for some kids are scary and not fun.

Consider the challenge when a steady diet of spinach is on offer.

Sarah Palin, part-time Governor of Alaska, is angry because Michele Obama is encouraging kids to eat healthy. Sarah Palin believes the government shouldn't tell us what to do. Sarah Palin believes she should tell us what to do.

You can't hide broccoli in your glass of milk.

We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.