Mom-of-three Jennifer Garner was spotted with son Samuel in Brentwood, Calif. on Tuesday (February 10). Looking casual chic in plaid, skinny jeans and ankle boots, the actress toted her tot – who turns 3 on Feb. 27 – and chatted with a fan before heading home.

The Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day star, 42, recently said she is done with diets and high maintenance beauty.

“I eat a lot—a lot—of salads. That’s the way that I get my veggies,” Garner told Yahoo! Beauty. “I eat lots of leafy greens, dark greens, with rice, too, because I want it to be a meal. I just have a big bag of greens that I get from the farmer’s market on Sunday. I keep it in a Ziploc bag and I just pull out handfuls of it for lunch everyday and add whatever I have to it.”

And her husband, Batman v. Superman‘s Ben Affleck, eats a similar diet most of the time, “unless he’s in the middle of really, really training for something,” she said. “And then, it’s such a different thing. Every calorie and every gram of protein—everything’s counted in a way that…I don’t know how he does it.”

The actress – who is also mom to daughters Violet, 9, and Seraphina, 6 – has no interest in wearing “crazy” dresses on the red carpet.

“With food I’m probably good 80 percent of the time. I’ve found out that I cannot pass up pizza without having some. I just can’t! My kids have a lot of pizza,” Garner shared. “I can’t go to a kid’s birthday party without having a slice.”

She added: “I mean, believe me, there’s always a point in the fitting where I feel like, ‘Why I didn’t I just try to lose four pounds and then I could wear any dress?’ I just can’t, though. I dieted for so long in the middle of doing Alias and being a superhero, that there’s something in me that can’t do anything that extreme.”

The Men, Women & Children star went on to share this anecdote: “Last night, I had some blue corn chips and cheddar cheese. And I have a photo shoot today! You know, whatever.”

As for her red carpet look, the actress keeps her makeup minimal.

“It drives my makeup people crazy! I mean, I have done that stuff before, but red lips on me is obnoxious,” she said. “I have enough of a big ol’ face that the last thing anyone needs is to have anything exaggerated that much.”

As for her “wholesome” upbringing in West Virginia, it sounds like beauty was not the focus in her household.

“I mean, we weren’t allowed to pierce our ears growing up,” Garner said. “We didn’t wear makeup. We couldn’t have layers in our hair, perms, or color, or manicures. My dad didn’t think it was ladylike. My dad just felt like his daughters should be wholesome. Luckily for my dad, none of us really bucked him on it. We were all fine with it.”

As for her own daughters, it might not be that easy.

“I think it’s going to be harder,” she shared. “My eldest already wants her ears pierced. I don’t know how you do it. I think you try to lead by example. The funny thing about that is my kids see me wearing more makeup than I ever could have imagined. So, they kind of think that’s normal.”

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