Michelle Obama said she was a 'picky eater' who ate peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches for breakfast every day until college

• Michelle Obama appeared on the podcast "Your Mama's Kitchen" hosted by Michele Norris.
• The former first lady said she was "kind of a picky eater" growing up.

As first lady, Michelle Obama championed children's health and encouraged healthy, nutritious eating. But on an August 16 episode of the Audible podcast "Your Mama's Kitchen" hosted by Michele Norris, Obama shared that she wasn't always open to expanding her palate and trying new foods.

Obama told Norris that growing up, she was "kind of a picky eater" who "despised breakfast."

Her older brother, Craig Robinson, was a student athlete who "ate everything all the time," including large breakfasts, she said. But Obama didn't like any typical breakfast foods like cereal, scrambled eggs, sausage, or bacon.

Instead, she started her days with peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches.

"It was sort of a compromise that I made with my mother because I thought, well, it's got peanuts, it's protein, a little bit of oil," Obama said. "Nothing's wrong with bread. If we're having toast, why can't I have it in a sandwich form? And jelly. Everybody was having jelly on their toast. Let me just put it on my peanut butter. She gave up. And I literally ate peanut butter and jelly every morning for most of my life, literally until I was in college."

Obama said she eventually learned to appreciate breakfast as an adult, and now enjoys dishes like eggs Benedict. She hasn't had a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich in years — partly because her daughter, Malia, is allergic to peanuts, and partly because she got tired of eating the same thing every morning.

"You know, I think I kind of OD'd on it," she said.