Parents, you may want to have your kids leave the room unless you want them to read this article and begin screaming … loudly and without pause.
It seems that Michelle Obama has banned boxed macaroni and cheese from the White House. In an interview the First Lady recently gave to Cooking Light magazine, Obama reveals that former White House chef Sam Kass was extremely opposed to Malia and Sasha, the First Daughters, eating boxed mac and cheese because “cheese dust is not food.”?
As Obama recalls:
“My kids loved the macaroni and cheese in a box. And [Sam] said, if it’s not real food then we’re not going to do it. If we want macaroni and cheese, we’ll cook it with real milk and real cheese. He said, there’s nothing wrong with mac and cheese, but it’s got to be real food.”
Malia, who was especially fond of the boxed side dish, was told she could have the longtime child (and college student) favorite if she could make cheese dust from real cheese. She gave it a try, the First Lady says😕
“So my oldest daughter [Malia], who was probably 8 at the time, he [Kass]?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. I mean, she was really focused on it, and it just didn’t work, so she had to give up. 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.”
As part of her national Let’s Move! initiative to assure that young Americans eat better and exercise, the First Lady said she has had to make changes in her family’s diet, and instant mac and cheese was one of the sacrifices that had to be made.
And parents, you can now invite your kids back into the room. But make sure they don’t see this story: the screaming, you understand.
