Al Roker cooks healthy with Michelle Obama

>>> was at the white house for the easter egg roll on monday. the theme let's go, let's play, let's move, part of michelle obama 's initiative to end childhood obesity.

>> we saw al got a chance to do some cooking with the first lady and noted chef marcus samuelson. let's take a look at that.

>> what are we cooking?

>> today we're doing a shrimp and vegetable taco.

>> meals like this?

>> pizza, there's a taco, i love that because you can make it healthy. to really have an opportunity to make it healthy. you can make it with chicken, with shrimp in this case.

>> how much ahead of this can you make ahead of time?

>> you can do the whole thing ahead. even the shrimp you want to finish off to the very end. most of it you can definitely do ahead.

>> you don't want to overcook the shrimp. that was asparagus?

>> that was asparagus.

>> and also a trick i see you're cutting things up small.

>> absolutely.

>> so you can fool them.

>> absolutely.

>> fake them out.

>> absolutely. but this is good --

>> sometimes you have to fool them.

>> you have to, right?

>> i see her as the top chef .

>> i know. i could see that.

>> a cooking segment or something.

>> i would love to do a cooking segment. the interesting thing about the white house kitchen everybody it seems that there's huge facility and it's actually pretty small.

>> really?

>> no, it really isn't. but this, of course, they set up just for the -- for the white house easter egg roll .

>> so how was the egg roll ?

>> it was fun. i mean, you think that 30,000 kids in and out between 7:30 a.m . and 6:30 in the evening.

>> and they have an eggtivity zone?

>> it's a lot of fun. we got to play a little basketball with the harlem globe trotters .