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Michelle Obama: 'Relationship with fries'
by Mark Silva
Michelle Obama, who professes to "a good relationship with French Fries,'' says that, as a girl, when she got good grades, she got pizza.
These days, however, fast food should be kept in far better "balance'' than most Americans are keeping it, the first lady suggested today.
"As a parent.... we know that sometimes doing all that is easier said than done, because we all care but it is becoming so increasingly difficult to provide all that for our kids,'' she said at a Healthy Kids Fair on the South Lawn of the White House. "We're all pulled in a million different directions, working hard, working long hours, trying to do everything, be perfect parents...
"But it's hard to do everything. And when you come home from a long day at work, and the refrigerator is empty, and you know you don't feel like cooking... the easiest and sometimes the cheapest thing to do is to get in a fast food drive-thru. We've all done it because we are overwhelmed and we don't know what the options are...
"When I was growing up, fast food was a treat,'' the first lady and mother of two young daughters living in the White House now told her guests on the lawn. "You know, we couldn't afford to get fast food every week, because my parents couldn't afford it, so it was something you did on a special occasion.
"We had pizza about once every school year -- once every semester when we got good grades. That's when we got pizza. It was pizza day. That's what we got for getting good grades, pizza,'' she said. "And we didn't have dessert every single night.
"My mother would tell us, 'Dessert is not a right. It's a treat.' So we had it on special occasions. We didn't have -- and I have to tell my kids this -- you don't get dessert every night of the week. Otherwise it's not a treat; it's just something that you do.''
This doesn' ot prevent the first family from indulging from time to time.
"I mean, we love good food, too. That's why I always say there's nothing that the First Family loves more than a good burger, right?'' she said. "And look, my favorite food in the whole wide world are French fries. I love them. Dearly. ... Deeply.
"I have a good relationship with French fries, and I would eat them every single day if I could. I really would,'' she said. "But I know that if I'm eating the right things -- and I tell my girls this -- if you're getting the right foods for most of the time, then when it's time to have cake and French Ffries on those special occasions, then you balance it out.''
This, above all, was not a lesson in "just saying no."
"It's not about any absolute no's,'' the first lady said today, a gloriously sunny fall day on the South Lawn. "It's just about striking a balance.''
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