Michelle Obama’s affordable meal she ate for breakfast for most of her life

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Michelle Obama would stick to a not-so-adventurous meal every morning.During an appearance on the first episode of Michele Norris‘ podcast Your Mama’s Kitchen, which is co-produced by Higher Ground (Barack Obama and Michelle’s media company), the author and philanthropist discussed how she refused to have breakfast unless it was a simple peanut butter and jelly sandwich.Barack Obama reacts to personal chef Tafari Campbell’s dead near Martha’s Vineyard estateMichelle Obama and Alicia Keys team up to connect mentorship and entertainment for studentsBarack and Michelle Obama share touching posts for chef Tafari Campbell after his tragic death“I was kind of a picky eater.

I didn’t like any breakfast-anything. And my brother, who ate breakfast all the time, thought I was crazy,” she said. “We had big breakfasts because my brother, he was a growing athlete.

So it was everything — cereal followed by scrambled or fried eggs followed by lots of toast and bacon and link sausage. So breakfast was big.”Michelle remembers her mother, Marian Robinson, making desperate attempts to “force” her to eat breakfast because she was “really stubborn.” “[I ate] peanut butter and jelly every morning until I went to college.

That was all I really liked,” she said. “It was sort of a compromise that I made with my mother because it’s got peanuts, that’s protein, a little bit of oil.