First lady asks restaurants to serve healthy foods

Yahoo ^ | 9-13-10 | MARY CLARE JALONICK/AP

[Allegra]

There’s another pic out there of her eating her cone in a corner where she thinks no one’s watching.

Oh, I'm going to have to try to find that...

[FourtySeven]

Off topic alert:

Does the press TRY to take unflattering pictures of her, or does she always have that expression on her face? Honestly it looks like she’s saying, “I don’t want to hear what you think. I’m the First Lady, and you need to listen to me”, in like 99% of her pictures.

[itssme]

You’ve said it so succinctly, I can’t add a thing. :-)

[ridesthemiles]

IF I am going out to eat, I will go to the restaurant of my choice & purchase what I want.

IF I am running a restaurant that I capitalized with my own money, I will serve items that my customers wish to purchase.

If I serve something the public does not like or want, I will go broke.

It is NONE of FAT BUTT Michelle NObama’s business what I eat nor where nor when.
I will make it at home if I cannot find it in a restaurant & that will put more & more people out of work.

I have plenty of recipes which call for BUTTER. NOTHING else works. Margarine-oil-whatever. Just doesn’t work.

Try making Toll House cookies without butter. TASTE awful.

Most of my best recipes which I like to prepare & which get the biggest raves are ones with Butter—whipping cream—pudding—whatever. REAL RED MEAT, ALSO!!!

I am sick of the nanny attitude Michelle thinks she can impose on me or anyone.
This is the same woman who wrote her college thesis about HOW MUCH SHE HATED AMERICA.
We cannot forget that.

[isthisnickcool]

Dedicated to Mrs. Sorento’s extremely large booty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ImZTwYwCug

[No Truce With Kings]

I suggest that the First Lady — and her husband — need to spend more time achieving a healthy economy rather than wasting it blathering about healthy food.

[Niteranger68]

The first “lady” should learn to simply control her appetite.

[wbill]

Mrs. Obama said that Americans are spending half their food dollars outside the home and eating a third of meals in restaurants

Where are these people?

Even the status-conscious 20-somethings that I work with have been brownbagging it, of late.

[itssme]

The photo of “Ma Kettle” walking up the steps with the lovely ladies from Spain and France should be sent to “Ma” with the notation that as soon as she “pulls up her rear and gets it in gear”, she may then “offer” her opinion on how others should eat.

And they will speak for me when they tell Moochelle to shuddup and peddle it somewhere else.

[Cvengr]

WHen Michelle can bake cookies off the cuff as well as Julia Child, then I'll consider her culinary advise.

Original recipe found in From Julia Child’s Kitchen by Julia Child. 2 large eggs, beaten

2/3 cup sugar

1 cup unbleached, all-purpose flour

4 ounces unsalted butter and 1 1/2 tablespoons for buttering the molds (total of 5 1/4 ounces)

1 tablespoon flour

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Grated lemon zest from 1/2 lemon

3 drops of lemon juice (or 2 of lemon and 2 of bergamot)

2 large Madeleine pans

Per original recipe, all ingredients should be brought to room temperature before mixing so that the melted butter does not congeal in the batter before the ingredients have blended together.

Combine flour and sugar in a mixing bowl and add three quarters of the eggs. Beat vigorously with a wooden spoon to blend into a heavy cream – if very stiff, add a little bit of the remaining egg, one droplet at a time. Set aside for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, bring all of the butter to a boil until it begins to brown very lightly. Combine 1 1/2 tablespoons of the butter and tablespoon of flour in a small bowl and set aside.

Stir the rest of the butter over cold water until cool but still liquid. Beat the remaining bit of egg into the batter, and stir in the cool butter. Stir in the in salt, vanilla, grated lemon zest, lemon juice (and bergamot if using). Cover the batter, and set aside for at least one hour. Meanwhile, paint the Madeleine cups with a light coating of the browned butter and flour mixture, wiping up any pools that form in the bottom. Set aside or refrigerate if the kitchen is warm. Preheat the oven to 375°. Using a spoon and rubber spatula, drop a rounded tablespoonful of batter into each Madeleine cup. Do not spread the batter to fill the mold. Repeat with remaining batter and mold. Set pans on the middle rack and bake for about 15 minutes. The batter will spread on its own to fill the cups and a hump will gradually form in the middle. Unmold onto a rack, humped side up. Serve as is, or sprinkle tops with a dusting of confectioner’s sugar.* Makes 2 dozen Madeleines. Notes: When cool, they can also be wrapped and frozen for later.

[mlizzy]

Does the press TRY to take unflattering pictures of her, or does she always have that expression on her face? Honestly it looks like she’s saying, “I don’t want to hear what you think. I’m the First Lady, and you need to listen to me”, in like 99% of her pictures.

No, I don't think they TRY to take unflattering pictures. In fact, I didn't even realize the one I posted was all that unflattering, until you mentioned it (for instance, think her high school graduation picture!). IMO she doesn't seem all that naturally happy (what pro-abort can be?), even though she can pull off a nice smiley image at times. Here's a picture I found that I can't post because it's from Getty, but it shows her persona well I thought ... Link.

[Girlene]

Mrs. Obama said that Americans are spending half their food dollars outside the home and eating a third of meals in restaurants.

Okay, in this economy, I seriously doubt these numbers. If the average family is taking their children out to eat to a restaurant once a day, I'd be surprised.

[aruanan]

I wish Michelle Obama, who knows less about nutrition than she did about her sinecure at the University of Chicago Hospitals, would just STFU.

[Cvengr]

2 words:

Lobster Thermidor!

[Disambiguator]

First lady TELLS restaurants to serve healthy foods

Asks? Tells? I think "axes" would be the correct term.

;^)

[wbill]

Most of my best recipes which I like to prepare & which get the biggest raves are ones with Butter

My unsolicited $0.02? If you want butter, eat it. Stressing over butter vs (margarine / fake spread / etc) is worse for you than the butter was to start with.

Now, putting a whole stick of it on (for instance) your popcorn, with a shaker full of salt.... well, that might be a little out of bounds. But in moderation? Geez, just eat what you like!

[SaveTheChief]

You guys obviously don’t “get” the mind of a liberal.

If they couldn’t control other people’s lives and impose their superior vision on others using the power of the State,

Hence, the word FASCIST from my previous post.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

SERVE WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT! THEY ARE THE ONES PAYING MONEY FOR IT!

If you don’t serve what they want, they won’t buy from you!

Michelle, BUTT OUT! go back to your own rat killing and LEAVE US ALONE!

[dearolddad]

"Less butter, more apples!"

I have never been made sick from a restaurant meal.

[mlizzy]

Remember this?

After entertaining the crowds with her athletic display, the mother of two went for the hard sell, telling kids to stop complaining when vegetables appear on their plate.

Imitating a whiny child Michelle said: “I don’t wanna eat it. I don’t like it. It tastes bad. I don’t want it.”

“We don’t want to hear the whining. We want you to eat it. Just eat it.” Link.

[emphasis: mine]