An Introduction

Hello,

My name is Trinity. I am a self-proclaimed foodie and have been for the past 10 years. I developed a love for food when I was able to cook what I liked. Growing up, my mother and father always cooked from a box and so I never fully appreciated food. Meals were always things that happened at regular intervals throughout the day, nothing special.

When I moved out at 21 I didn't have a cooking background to fall back on, so I went and bought four or five cookbooks. I figured it couldn't be that hard. My first was Betty Crocker's Cooking Basics . This book started my foodie journey. I made every recipe cover to cover. I learned, quickly, what I liked and what I didn't.

After discovering food could actually be good I began questioning my restaurant choices. Surely there was something better out there than the fast food and all-you-can-eat buffets my parents were so fond of. And sure enough I began trying every new hole-in-the-wall and corporate chain I could find. I came to realize some still sucked but some were absolutely fantastic. I developed a true love for food and in doing so my cooking improved.

Now, if someone wants to try something new but they are unsure about it, they call me. I can point them in the right direction and I can generally tell them what to order at said place. I am addicted to Urbanspoon . On this website you can see what the foodies in your town are raving over and what has become a total waste of money. I always say, if a restaurant has an 80% approval rating or above, it's worth trying.

Okay, so by now you are saying to yourself, "Umm, you deemed this blog 'The Vegetarian Foodie' and I've seen nothing saying you are Vegetarian...". That is correct. I decided about a month ago to change my eating habits. Let me preface what I am about to say with this; I have always been in excellent health. Every time I go in to the doctor to have blood work done the doctor is shocked at how healthy I am. However, I have been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Unfortunately, not a lot is known about PCOS or why it occurs. This leads to other problems I have, such as, PMDD and IBS . I have spent nearly six years trying to find something to help me rid myself of these cysts but to no avail. The doctors have prescribed many different medications but none of them have really helped. Metformin is one drug that they gave me that just made me insanely sick and the other medication (can't remember the name) just made me insane. So, I have been looking for alternate routes.

I was in my favorite little used book store one day and I ran across a book I had seen a million times but never paid much mind to. Since I had heard so much about it I decided to pick it up and read the first chapter. I am hit with these opening lines "Okay. Use your head. You need to get healthy if you want to get skinny. Healthy = skinny. Unhealthy = fat. The first thing you need to give up is your gross vices. Don't act surprised... So don't use some pathetic excuse... no one wants to hear it. Cigarettes are for losers. They are so 1989 and totally uncool." I was dying. Rolling on the floor cracking up. It was so unexpected. I kept reading and I was in love with this book. Especially when I noticed there was an entire chapter dedicated to pooping. Crude, I know, but sometimes we need to break the monotony of all of these health lectures and find something we can connect with.

Skinny Bitch (yes, be prepared for cussing, it happens, a lot) is the name of the book and it opened my eyes to what I was putting in my body. It made me realize that my body was rejecting these things (meat and dairy) every single time I consumed them. Then, low and behold... they begin naming off all of the illness and disease associated with consuming too much meat and I am shocked to see the very things that I have been fighting for six years. Now, explain to me, how am I supposed to react? I eat "healthy" and I exercise. I have always followed the golden rule of dieting "All things in moderation." So why have I been plagued with this condition? The doctor can't explain it.

I took the steps I needed to take to get my body back. As I said before I have always been healthy so this wasn't to lose weigh, which I have, but a way to say enough is enough and I'm tired of battling infertility and PMDD. I will keep you posted on those results as they come.

Back to food! I am committing myself to sharing my journey with others. I am going to post reviews, remakes and original recipes on here that I hope you will all love.

Thanks for the support,
Trinity