Years after the release of Chrissy Teigen's three cookbooks, she's opening up about what she would have done differently.
The model appeared in Lives with Kelly and Mark on Wednesday, January 24, where she revealed that she does not cook the recipes she has made on previous episodes of the talk show, nor any of the recipes published in her cookbooks.
“If I were to do a cookbook now, it would be 10-minute recipes because I don't cook like I used to,” Teigen explained to co-host Kelly Ripa.
The lack of time to cook is largely due to the rapid addition of additional children to her household in 2023. In January, she and her husband, John Legend, welcomed their third child and second daughter, Esti Maxine. In June, they welcomed her fourth child and her second child, Wren Alexander Stephens, through a surrogate.
With more people to feed comes the need to cook faster, which is why Teigen noted that she would no longer do the more meticulous tasks she tells people to do in her recipes.
“I used to tell people outrageous things like, 'Make sure you get fresh thyme and take the time to pick the leaves.' And now I'm like, 'Uhhhhh, no!'” she said on the talk show.
Ripa laughed at the cookbook author and responded, “You told us that right here on the show!”
Teigen responded: “If I make my lasagna now I think, 'This is evil! I can't believe he did this to people!'”
Despite thinking it was “weird” to be on the show and not cook, the mother of four said she has been enjoying other parts of the food world. “Right now we're selling products all over the country in grocery stores and I have my cookies, my banana bread, pancakes and waffles, and it's so much fun to create them and then take pictures and design the boxes, that's a lot more fun for me . “Personally,” she told the co-hosts when comparing it to writing a cookbook.
Although he has a well-known presence in the gastronomic scene with his new series. Chrissy and Dave go out to dinnerTeigen explained last week during an interview with Jimmy Kimmel what kind of eaters her kids are.
Teigen praised her seven-year-old daughter Luna for eating all of her healthy vegetables. “Luna is the one who eats the best. “Luna is amazing, she eats salads and vegetables,” Teigen said. However, when it comes to his five-year-old son Miles, he's a bit more picky about food.
“Miles hasn't eaten any vegetables yet,” Teigen revealed. “He is almost six years old. He accidentally ate a broccoli floret with fried rice and was very upset about it.”
She went on to admit that getting her kids to eat fruits and vegetables had become such a “struggle” that she joined “a Zoom call where they talk about picky eaters.”
“They say it's the only thing they really have control over at that age, so he uses it,” he added. Kimmel then joked that while children may not have control over anything, “they seem to have control over every aspect, every minute of our lives,” to which Teigen agreed.
