White House ‘Kids State Dinner’ Featured Vegan Dishes

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First lady Michelle Obama has been urging kids to get active and take on healthier diets for years. Judging by the veg-friendly kid created recipes served at the White House’s ‘Kids State Dinner’, the message is definitely coming across.

The ‘dinner’ was actually a lunch hosted by the FLOTUS that welcomed 54 kids into the White House. Each of them represented one of the country’s states and territories who won their way to the exclusive event by having a winning recipe in the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge competition.

A few of those winning recipes were then served at the luncheon and some of them were vegetarian and vegan.

‘Deliciousness Over Rice,’ for example, submitted by 10-year-old Sable Scotton of Alaska, has brocolli, caulliflower and other cruciferous vegetables served over rice. ‘Oodles of Zoodles with Avocado Pistachio Pesto’ by Arizona’s Nia Thomas, another 10-year-old, uses zuchinni as noodles in a pesto sauce. Maine’s Leo Koch, age 8, submitted a ‘Superhero Vegan Soup’ full of vegetables, and other recipes included nutritious vegan ingredients like farro, quinoa and tofu.

“A lot of kids don’t understand that food is fuel in a very fundamental way,” said Michelle Obama to her kid guests this Friday. “And sometimes they don’t listen to grown-ups, and they don’t listen to the First Lady. But many of them will listen to you because you’re living proof of that reality.”

To make meals even fresher (and better), the vegetables used to cook the meals were collected from the White House’s vegetable garden.

“If unhealthy foods can have all kinds of advertisements,” added the first lady, “why can’t we do that for fruits and vegetables?”

We couldn’t agree more!

Via ABC News

Photo Credit: Office of the First Lady