It all started with an ice cream cone…
In the Fall of 2011, while visiting my boyfriend in Nashville, Tennessee, I was eating an ice cream cone. It was the most glorious of all ice cream cones and I thought aloud, “I should start writing about how much I love food. I should start a food blog.”
I’ve been eating food for 21 years now, and I’ve been eating vegetarian/vegan food for about 6 years. I think this pretty much makes me an expert. At first, the idea of the blog was to eat out once a week and review the restaurants in the places I live and travel. (I frequent Nashville and live in Bloomington, Indiana). After my first review of that glorious ice cream cone, I realized…I really love to cook. This chain of events started The Hearty Herbivore.
I now review restaurants and recipes and share my own original recipes.
So a little about me. I am currently and Arts Management student at Indiana University-Bloomington. I’m also minoring in Studio Art (Graphic Design). My main goal in life is to go into marketing for the music world. I’m a really big nerd (I took a Star Trek class once. I got a B) and if I wasn’t studying art, I’d be studying History.
Originally, I’m from a very small town (one stoplight!) in the Greater Cincinnati Area. I grew up on a beef farm, and no, that’s not why I’m a vegetarian. When I first became vegetarian, I really loved the idea of saving animals. Now, I still love saving animals, but I’m more just in love with the idea of eating healthy and fresh foods.
Join me in this food adventure by subscribing, following me on Twitter at @HeartyHerbivore and “liking” me on Facebook.
I hope you enjoy my blog, my sense of humor, my pictures, and my recipes and reviews
theheartyherbivore.wordpress.com 
Hey! You’ve got a great site here. I also love all the healthy and fresh food that comes with vegetarian cooking – YUM! Thanks for stopping by Ragamuffin Diaries! 🙂
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You’re awesome
Thanks, Mrs. Seaver! I was taught web design by the best!
I nominated you for a daunting plethora of awards! Keep on blogging. I’d Like To Thank The Academy
Thanks! 🙂 Congrats on all your nominations as well!
Have a great week! -J
Hi! I really enjoy your blog and have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. You can check out the post here: http://morethangreens.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/versatile-blogger-award/
Have a great day!
– Sarah
Hello Hearty Herbivore,
We love your blog and your dedication to all things delicious!
The Beach House Kitchen has nominated you for a
‘Versatile Blogger Award’ (http://versatilebloggeraward.wordpress.com/).
The Versatile Blogger Award is a great way of meeting other like-minded bloggers and getting folk to have a look at your pages (I believe it is known as ‘traffic’).
The rules for the Versatile Blogger are as follows:
If you are nominated, you’ve been awarded the Versatile Blogger award.
-Thank the person who gave you this award
-Include a link to their blog
-Select 15 blogs/bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly
-Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award
-Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself
Thats it!
Congratulations and happy blogging,
Lee and JaneX
http://www.thebeachhousekitchen.wordpress.com
Thank you so much! I’ll be recognizing this in my next post! 🙂
Cool site. Got any best friends you want to give a shout out to? Kamler 2040.
Come cook with me sometime, Mrs. First Lady!!
Cool blog! Lovely photos and I dig the color scheme, too. Just getting more into your recipes, but I like what I see so far!
Thanks so much! Glad you’re enjoying yourself and I hope you find some recipes you’d like to make! Thanks for following on Twitter as well!
Hey there, I’ve nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award! http://onehappytable.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/one-lovely-bog-awardthank-you-linsday-is-vegan/
Thank you!! 🙂
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You have a very cool blog! I am not a vegan but do eat vegan, cook & bake vegan 5x/ week! Come on over & check me out! 🙂 Many greets from a foodie from Belgium! 🙂
I love your reason for being vegetarian-it’s the same as mine! It started with saving the animals but has evolved into eating healthy plant-based foods.
Love the blog too!
Thanks for stopping by!
Jamie
Hey Jamie! What is the best way to contact you? Thanks!
You can send me an e-mail and I’ll be quick to respond! theheartyherbivore@gmail.com
Perfect! Thanks so much 🙂
Hi HeartyHerbavore, thanks for sharing your story 🙂 I’m newly vegetarian (less than half a year I think) and I hope to learn and read more of your blog
I hope I can help, too! 🙂 Let me know if you ever have any questions. Thanks for stopping by!
Being a vegetarian myself (nothing unusual about that in India), I love the recipes on your blog.
Hello, I am vegetarian myself as well, and I love all of your recipes!!!
thank you!
Thanks for stopping by! 🙂 Hope you’ll return soon!
Hello fantastic website! Does running a blog such as this require a massive amount
work? I’ve virtually no expertise in computer programming however I had been hoping to start my own blog soon. Anyhow, if you have any ideas or techniques for new blog owners please share. I understand this is off subject however I simply needed to ask. Many thanks!
That picture of you with the popsicle is perhaps the cutest thing in the entire universe.
Also, I’m glad that I just figured out this is a WordPress so I can FoLLoW yOu!
Hope Nashville is great so far, and can’t wait to read more reviews and recipes from your summer! ❤ KB
I’m excited I found this blog! I’m a vegetarian too and I’m always looking for more recipes to try! Looking forward to getting to know you!
Hey, I like the story about how your blog came to be – simple and straight-forward. I also like the idea of your name – Hearty Herbivore – great imagery! Anyways, I’m enjoying clicking around and checking out your recipes, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed! 🙂
I love your blog name! The name, along with the blog itself, are both adorable. Excited to start scrolling through your recipes!
Just discovered your blog, and I love it! Celeste 🙂
Hi!! I absolutely LOVE your layout and recipes, and I’ve nominated you for the Kreativ Blogger Award! 🙂 Check it out: http://theafterschoolchef.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/kreativ-blogger-award-thank-you-tastytreats13/
Great recipes! I need to diversify my recipes.
I was a veggie until about 19 when I travelled to Africa! they did not understand vegetarian and just gave me less meet, then got my killing a goat so I gave in. It was ten years later when travelling in India I turned again, now happily veggie for about 3 years. So some good inspiration is welcome as i’m a cheap skate and don’t buy cookery books! I try to only eat seasonal and organic foods so will be looking in your history to get the right season for the UK.
I might also ask the odd question as to what things are, as you guys sometimes call things by funny names, or do we who knows. Thanks!