Amy Klobuchar Quotes

Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like fast food, childhood obesity and the horrible state of school lunches can be addressed by kids and their parents.

The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right.

I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

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

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

I don't eat fast food - and neither should you!

If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of what my mother did and say to my kids, 'Well, if you are hungry enough, you will eat what I put on the table!' I think my kids have an understanding that if they see what their parents do, they should follow, too.

Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.

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

As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better.

It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.

When it came to healthy eating, my parents did their best to set me on the right path. At school, my friends ate McDonalds at lunchtime, but I had a packed lunch that my mother made for me. I hated it at the time, but looking back, I'm glad.

Very few parents give out healthy lunchboxes due to pressure from their children.

I even ate chips because I love the crunchy sound they make. And I didn't give much thought to what I was eating or what I was putting inside my body, except hummus, of course, which is one of my weaknesses.

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.

Cooking with your kids and engaging them in hands-on activities are two ways to begin to educate children about the healthy eating, and kick start the important task to help change how the younger generation looks at food and nutrition.

I normally don't eat junk food.

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.

I do try to eat healthy, and I find that's easiest when I just avoid the Doritos aisle at the grocery store.

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

I am very concerned about junk food in the schools.

I am not a vegetarian. I subscribe to my own mantra: eat less, move more, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, don't eat too much junk food, and enjoy what you eat. Or, to summarise: eat less, eat better, move more, and get political.

I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn't kill me to drop it all together.