Curtis Stone Quotes

I avoid processed food.

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

At the fishmonger, choose fish with bright scales and clear eyes.

I try not to eat processed foods, well, ever. If it comes from a lab or a factory, I don't want it.

I'm into real food, and that includes real butter.

I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

I believe in using fresh, high quality from-the-earth ingredients and cooking methods that protect the natural goodness and nutrients of foods, while always maximizing flavor and taste.

When I can afford it, I'm very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it's a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can.

Actually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.

I'm not a big chicken or meat eater, but sometimes I'll eat it if it's locally raised. The family dinner will be stir-fry, or we'll roll our own sushi with brown rice, spinach, salmon, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and seaweed. The kids love it!

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. I'm not worried if I'm using four different cheeses and it's high in fat. It's real food. That's what's more important.

I truly believe that everything I need to flourish nutritionally is found in nature and that some stuff just shouldn't be messed with, especially the food I'm putting in my body.

I'm a big fruit-and-vegetable kind of guy.

There's 'Erewhon', a whole big super store where they do incredible raw vegan food.

Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

Fresh herbs really belong anywhere you put them.

I try to eat food that hasn't been washed in ammonia and then packaged in the shape of breaded dinosaurs filled with cheese - even though those are very tasty. I like to eat food that can actually make it through the 20-plus feet of my small intestine.

I think what I love most about the raw food thing is it's real alchemy. It's a really interesting science, and I think for a creative person, it's a great way to eat.

I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.

I won't eat frozen food and I like to know where my food has come from. I don't like anything going in my body that's from a packet. I used to eat microwave ready meals, because we were so busy, but now I like to eat clean.

I try to stick to real food, meaning anything that has been grown naturally or organically and that is not majorly processed: meats and proteins, a lot of green vegetables, less sugary fruits, solid starches and nuts.

I make green juice daily.