Emily Blunt Has Been Trying to Give Up This Food for Years — It’s Not Working
She has played a sharp-tongued fashion assistant, a combat soldier, a nuclear scientist’s wife, and a singing nanny with a British accent that could stop traffic. But ask Emily Blunt what she actually wants to eat when the cameras are off and the answer is disarmingly simple, and slightly at war with every health regime she has ever attempted.
There is one food she has admitted she could eat in almost limitless quantities, one she keeps trying to cut out, and one she keeps returning to. And the story of why is far more entertaining than any diet article has a right to be.
The Confession She Made to Oprah
When asked directly about her favorite meal, Blunt admitted to Oprah that despite being on a health regime at the time, her honest answer was a pizza with burrata cheese and basil. She added, simply, “I could eat maybe 10.”
The same interview saw her immediately acknowledge that her current wellness plan was specifically about cutting pizza out, a contradiction she delivered with the exact comic timing that has made her one of the most watchable people in Hollywood.
The tension between loving pizza and trying to give it up has followed her through multiple film preparations, multiple trainers, and multiple years of otherwise impressively clean eating.
The Dish That Won a Marriage Proposal
Beyond pizza, Blunt’s relationship with food is deeply rooted in something warmer and more personal. On the River Cafe Table 4 podcast, she revealed that one of the first things she cooked for John Krasinski was her roast chicken noodle soup, made with ginger, carrots, celery, onion, wine, and egg noodles. That dish, she told host Ruthie Rogers, led directly to a marriage proposal.
She also appeared on Food Network’s ‘Be My Guest with Ina Garten’ to cook her family’s go-to turkey bolognese, a recipe she uses to sneak vegetables past her children, admitting she has to stop herself from eating it straight out of the pan while serving.
Her Everyday British Plate
Day to day, Blunt tends toward porridge with blackberries or peanut butter on gluten-free toast in the morning, tuna salad with miso soup for lunch, and salmon with steamed vegetables or courgette lasagne for dinner.
She limits herself to one coffee a day, avoids processed foods, and keeps her plate close to what she grew up eating in London.
Her best-loved pasta is cacio e pepe, and pasta with butter and cheese was a staple of her childhood home, the kind of food she says still feels like comfort in its most honest form.
The Paris Detour That Said Everything
After wrapping the physically demanding filming of ‘The Adjustment Bureau’, which required her to train as a ballerina and follow a strict low-calorie diet, Blunt went straight to Paris and reportedly ate her body weight in bread and cheese. No timeline, no plan, no trainer in sight.
It is the most Emily Blunt thing imaginable, working incredibly hard, eating with impressive discipline, and then rewarding herself with the foods she actually loves the moment she gets the chance. The pizza with burrata is still waiting.
