Kathy Freston Quotes

My favorite dish is brown rice with lentils, roasted red and yellow peppers, and fennel, with a sweet potato and a salad on the side.

Meat is expensive. And who said you have to eat meat every single day! Eat eggplant!

I make lots of casseroles that have protein, veggies, carbs and good fats all together.

Yeah, I'm a vegetarian - but still, some things are just nasty. I like salads. But sometimes, they get too creative. I like regular food, just no meat in it.

I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.

One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat or fish for their own dinner. I got to thinking: 'What if the cabbage was the most important thing on the plate?'

Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.

Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.

I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.

My unhealthiest habit is that I like eating white bread and butter. I don't know why, I just ate it as a kid. It's weird but I love it. My healthiest? I make a really good quinoa, chickpea and tahini lemon dressing salad, or I make a really bomb green smoothie.

When I decided to become vegetarian, I had to learn how to 'recook,' if you will. For example, I used to put red wine in a big pot with the meat that I'd cooked in fat, and it was, of course, delicious. When I gave up meat, I wondered what I would make. That turned out to be vegetables, really organic and fresh.

After you give up meat for about a week, you don't really crave it anymore.

Growing up, our meals consisted primarily of vegetables, and then we had small amounts of meat.

I'm all or nothing. I'm either having fresh vegetables, or I'm eating fried fish.

There are so many amazing plant-based foods out there that I don't feel the urge to eat tofu bacon.

There's some really disgusting places out there who just throw some lentil together and think that just because you don't eat meat, you're gonna eat this slop.

My husband is a vegetarian. So it has really pushed me as a chef. Just thinking about the food that I really relied on as my hunny-hunting foods, that looks different with a vegetarian.

It's just really hard to commit to clean eating, and then sometimes you don't want to eat cold salads. Sometimes you want that warm comfort food.

With eating well, there's a perception that it's depressing. People think they're just going to meditate and eat kale.

I am not fond of red meat.

I eat vegetarian at home, so I always have yogurt and milk, eggs, whole wheat bread, whole grains. Lots of vegetables and fruit. Cereals and oatmeal. That type of thing.

My wife Marina likes salad and fish and I have reduced my meat consumption to just three times a week. It wouldn't take much to go vegetarian and I may well make that decision soon.

I am not a fish fanatic unless it is made in a certain way. Most of the time, my parents and I would eat very light vegetarian food.

When we're playing at home in Utah, breakfast is really the only meal at which I allow myself to be a little unhealthy. So it's usually pancakes, waffles, eggs, and bacon. I like to keep that consistent. For lunch and dinner, I will have Caesar salad.