Delectable Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States is the
first person to cover Cooking Light in the publication's 28-year history.
Michelle, 51, appears in the March issue, where she speaks on life inside the White House.
"We're really proud of the changes we've seen across
the country—most proud of the fact that it feels like there's a new norm in how
families think about food and what's healthy," Michelle says. Still, the
Princeton University alum admits that there have been challenges along the way.
"Change is hard for anybody. And when you're talking about food, food is
really personal. So when you're telling people to rethink their dietary habits
that they've lived with all their lives, it's really personal," FLOTUS
explains.
Michelle makes sure her family follows a healthy eating
plan, courtesy of Sam Kass, President Barack Obama's senior policy advisor for
nutrition policy. "He was a core of our processed-food elimination—and my
kids loved the macaroni and cheese in a box. He said, 'There's nothing wrong
with mac and cheese, but it's got to be real food.' So my oldest daughter,
Malia Obama, who was probably 8 at the time, he took a block of cheese and he
said, 'If you can cut this cheese up into the powder that is the cheese of the
boxed macaroni and cheese, then we'll use it.' She sat there for 30 minutes
trying to pulverize a block of cheese into dust. And from then on, we stopped
eating macaroni and cheese out of a box, because cheese dust is not food, as
was the moral of that story," Michelle recalls.
For the Obamas, dinnertime is family time. "We've found that we've been able to have dinner almost every night together, between 6:30 and 7," the First Lady says. "We have a bigger table and somebody else is doing the cooking, but the conversation and the mood and the tone are still the same. It's our most important time of the day," Michelle adds.
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