This should be on my List of Gripes - but I think its better as its own post.

I have been a vegetarian for 6 months now and I completely LOVE it! It fits me so well and I know its the best way for me to live. Trav is a veggie too and loves it just the same. So when I make dinner at home - Its good, fresh, savory food. When I eat out - its a different story.

Convenience restaurants like - Chipotle, Noodles and Company, Subway and such - make it very easy to choose a vegetarian option- and you know what you are getting and you know its healthy.

Most of the rest of the popular places have "vegetarian options" that are not healthy and not fresh and you don't always know what you are eating - so that can be really frustrating.

I know that being a vegetarian is not the "norm" and I know that its my choice to eat this way and in NO WAY am I expecting the world to change or live the veggie way of life - just because I choose to. AND there are a TON of really great vegetarian restaurants and restaurants that DO have quality, fresh and healthy vegetarian options - so I'm not complaining about everyone.

Im just saying its a bit frustrating or maybe the better word is - well I don't know a better word - but its just - sortof depressing that there are so many people that are so closed minded about the subject and cannot EVER imagine life without animal products. But then again its not their fault. That's what they've been taught from infancy. Meat = main part of any meal. Anyways I could go on and on about this stuff but there is no point because I can't change everyone's views.

The whole reason for this post is that today I wanted to eat some soup for lunch - I wanted soup so very badly but because the little restaurant downstairs only had chili or chicken wild rice - I was left without the comforts of a hot bowl of creamy goodness. So I further examined the menu and I was left with a boring crappy salad - nachos - or - a bagel. I chose the bagel to go with the apple and pepper strips I brought from home. It was a good lunch, Im not saying it was bad. I just think that if you are in the restaurant business - you should have an idea of the varieties of diets in the American public. OR- for god sakes - you own a cafe in an office building - have each office take a survey of the kind of food they eat. You are here to serve food to us - if its crappy food - we are not going to eat it - then you make no money. I don't know - I think that's just common sense.

Alright already - I'm done - I just wanted some damn soup.

Any questions, comments or curiosities about vegetarianism are more than welcome and I will do my best to answer them.

Posted by Katrina :: 2:49 PM :: 1 Chortles

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