Merrill Markoe Quotes

Every meal is so important and colours the rest of your day - my whole day can go into a spin if I make the wrong choice at lunchtime!

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.

Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.

I rarely have time for lunch, so tend to have a big breakfast and big dinner.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.

Not having time or energy for weight loss makes no sense. Does it take more time or energy to eat fish than prime rib? No.

People don't eat in the long run. They eat every day.

I really try to do and eat the same thing every day when I'm home and in my routine.

I have long maintained that each of us has three chances a day to be happy: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.

I typically have breakfast, have a snack, have lunch, have a snack, and have dinner.

I hired a full-time chef, so I wasn't taking that time to order pizzas or eat Wild Wings or stuff like that. I travel somewhere, I'm gone for a long period, I have a chef. I think that elevated my game.

I get up every morning the same as everyone else, and scratch my head and just get on with the job. Whatever that job may be.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Eating at home is important for us, because we eat out so much when we're away. When I'm at home I cook a lot and we eat pretty healthily. I'm not a massive vegetable fan - I've got better since I discovered how to undercook them.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

I've never had food in my fridge. All I have in my fridge is one shelf of Canada Dry ginger ale, Diet Cokes on the next shelf, and ZeroWater on the next shelf. That is it.

My whole day revolves around food. If you think you've won the day, only because you haven't eaten over 1,000 calories, you know that things are off-kilter. That's not a healthy way to be thinking.

Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!