Tia Mowry Quotes

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.

I won't eat anything green.

When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they can't believe it. I mean, they can understand how the kid left to his own devices might do that, but they can't imagine that parents would allow that to happen.

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.

But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.

When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.

I don't eat green things, no vegetables.

I ate everything - a lot of pizza, bags of chips and boxes of cookies. Now I love chicken, that's all I eat.

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 that when I give my 4-year-old a cupcake, she takes a few licks of the frosting and takes a bite, but she has yet to finish a whole cupcake. She gets so excited about cake, but she never eats all of it. She would rather have a plate of fruit. I hope that sticks.

When I was growing up, I never really ate vegetables. I was just a hot dog, hamburger, French fry person like most kids.

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

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.

I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.

I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.

I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.

I'm not a fussy eater, but when I'm travelling, I try to stick to the same regime and just have my chicken and my mash and broccoli. Otherwise, you start eating all these funny delicacies, and it makes your tummy turn upside down.

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

I was a big Jersey meat-and-potatoes kind of guy before I got here.

I'm married to a health-conscious American. I try to eat well, but definitely, as an Australian, you have some of the red meat, lamb, steak, barbecues as part of your culture.

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

I eat the way I want to eat.

I was not a fussy kid and had a good appetite. Only, I was not happy to eat keerai and vegetables.

One of my earliest memories is Mum telling me not to have as many sweets as the other kids because I put on weight so easily.

I used to have a routine where I would eat a meal during the World Series of Poker. I would play, they would call it a day and I would go work out. I would always order poached salmon with mushrooms and I would dip the salmon into a side of ranch dressing.