In the March issue of Cooking Light magazine, first lady Michelle Obama says she’s banished processed foods from her family’s table in an effort that began nearly a decade ago.
That’s when, acting on the behest of the family’s personal chef, she exiled the venerable boxed macaroni and cheese to the Obama scrap heap of history.
“He said, ‘there’s nothing wrong with mac and cheese, but it’s got to be real food,’ ” Cooking Light quoted Obama as saying in an article celebrating the fifth anniversary of her Let’s Move fitness initiative.
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"Cheese dust is not food" says @MichelleObama. We concur. http://t.co/xe6sgbMXbN #EatRealFood pic.twitter.com/165aUZD2do
Of course, all of the Obamas’ efforts to get their daughters to eat more healthfully could soon go up in a cloud of college dining hall fast-food glory. Malia, whose failed cheese dust experiment helped set the family on their processed-food-free journey, is about to go off to college, her dad noted recently.
“I joke with Malia and Sasha, because Malia is now at the age where she’s starting to look at colleges, and I said, ‘These days, I hear everybody is looking for fancy gyms and gourmet food and really spiffy dorms,’ ” he said last week.
