Laurie David Quotes

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.

If I could wave a magic wand, I would love for all children around the world to have good, nutritious meals every day.

The problem is that restaurants have assumed that kids don't want to eat anything other than chicken nuggets or fast-food burgers, but they do. They want to eat things that taste good.

There's no doubt about it: people want local, real food.

People always want to know what I fed my kids. I gave them real food, not frozen pizza.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

I'm really all about clean eating, lots of fruits and vegetables. It's great, because in California, there are so many farmers' markets, so I always have plenty of fresh produce.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

One thing I'll tell you is the food in Sacramento is off the charts. You've got good Asian food, the farm system where everything is natural, which I believe in. I like organic.

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair.

We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

The way that I grew up, we ate very whole, real, natural foods.

I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.

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.

The traditional fast food model is built on buying the cheapest ingredients - and that usually means poor-quality, heavily processed foods. But you can use quality ingredients, cook food using classic cooking techniques, and still serve something that's fast and inexpensive.

Like many other chef-entrepreneurs, I am convinced that fast food does not mean bad food.